The Status of the Morpheme in Georgian Verbal Morphology

Gurevich, Olga

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“…Thus, quasi-incorporation demonstrates that the ideas of Construction Grammar, an output-oriented, non-modular, monostratal framework of language structure, are also applicable to word formation analysis (Riehemann 2001, Gurevich 2006). This is a natural direction of the extension of Construction Grammar, which generally assumes a continuum between lexicon and grammar (Croft 2001, Fried & Östman 2004).…”

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A constructional account of the ‘optional’ quotative marking on Japanese mimetics

Akita

Usuki

2015

J. Ling.

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This paper proposes a constructional account of the longstanding issue of the optional quotative to-marking on manner-adverbial mimetics (or ideophones) in Japanese. We argue that this optionality comes from the availability of two morphological constructions – the bare-mimetic predicate construction and the quotative-adverbial construction – to a set of mimetics. On the one hand, the bare-mimetic predicate construction incorporates previously identified phonological, syntactic, and semantic conditions of the bare realization of mimetics. This construction is instantiated by bare mimetics (e.g. pyókopyoko ‘jumping around quickly’) in combination with their typical host predicates (e.g. hane- ‘jump’), and they behave as loose complex predicates with more or less abstract meanings. As with ‘say’- and ‘do’-verbs, these complex predicates involve quasi-incorporation, which is a constructional strategy for the morphosyntactic integration of mimetics into sentence structures. On the other hand, the quotative-adverbial construction introduces mimetics to sentences with a minimal loss of their imitative semiotics. This fundamental function is consistent with the wide distribution of quotative-marked mimetics.

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A constructional account of the ‘optional’ quotative marking on Japanese mimetics

Akita

Usuki

2015

J. Ling.

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“…For the latter cases, morphologists have used paradigms and realization-based rules, and syntacticians have used constructional idioms. The similarity between realization-based morphology and construction-based syntax has recently been emphasized especially by Gurevich (2006) and Booij (2010). As far as I have been able to determine, the differences between them mostly derive from different traditions, not from any substantive differences.…”

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The indeterminacy of word segmentation and the nature of morphology and syntax

Haspelmath¹

2017

Folia Linguistica

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The general distinction between morphology and syntax is widely taken for granted, but it crucially depends on a cross-linguistically valid concept of '(morphosyntactic) word'. I show that there are no good criteria for defining such a concept. I examine ten criteria in some detail (potential pauses, free occurrence, mobility, uninterruptibility, non-selectivity, non-coordinatability, anaphoric islandhood, nonextractability, morphophonological idiosyncrasies, and deviations from bi-uniqueness), and I show that none of them is necessary and sufficient on its own, and no combination of them gives a definition of 'word' that accords with linguists' orthographic practice. 'Word' can be defined as a language-specific concept, but this is not relevant to the general question pursued here. 'Word' can be defined as a fuzzy concept, but this is theoretically meaningful only if the continuum between affixes and words, or words and phrases, shows some clustering, for which there is no systematic evidence at present. Thus, I conclude that we do not currently have a good basis for dividing the domain of morphosyntax into morphology and syntax, and that linguists should be very careful with general claims that make crucial reference to a cross-linguistic 'word' notion.

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Morphology of the Caucasian Languages: A Typological Overview

Arkadiev¹

2022

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The indigenous languages of the Caucasus (Nakh-Daghestanian, Abkhazo-Agyghean and Kartvelian) present a remarkable degree of diversity in their morphological systems, both between and within larger genealogical units and even closely-related varieties. This article is an attempt to present a theoretically and typologically informed overview of the major parameters of morphological variation of the Caucasian languages and to highlight a number of non-trivial and rare phenomena found in their morphology. The phenomena discussed include locus of marking, types of affixal and non-affixal exponence, non-trivial form-meaning relations, and manifestations of polysynthesis.

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The Status of the Morpheme in Georgian Verbal Morphology

Abstract: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations (2003)

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A constructional account of the ‘optional’ quotative marking on Japanese mimetics

A constructional account of the ‘optional’ quotative marking on Japanese mimetics

The indeterminacy of word segmentation and the nature of morphology and syntax

Morphology of the Caucasian Languages: A Typological Overview

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