Multiple exponence / Alice C. Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Alice C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Semantics--Psychological aspects.

Semantics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xviii, 294 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

1.1 What Is Multiple Exponence? 1

1.2 Why Is Multiple Exponence of Interest to linguists? 3

1.3 Why This Book? 6

1.4 The Approach Taken Here 7

1.5 How Can We Distinguish Reanalyzed Successive Markers from ME? 23

1.6 Conclusion 25

2 Multiple Exponence in Linguistic Theory: A History of the Inquiry 27

2.1 Introduction 27

2.2 Multiple Exponence and the Elsewhere Condition 28

2.3 Multiple Exponence and the Split Morphology Hypothesis 35

2.4 Multiple Exponence in Distributed Morphology and Articulated Morphology 36

2.5 Multiple Functional Heads 39

2.6 Multiple Exponence in Minimalist Morphology 40

2.7 Paradigm Function Morphology 43

2.8 Multiple Exponence in Other Word and Paradigm Approaches 44

2.9 Optimality Theory and Multiple Exponence 45

2.10 Breton Again 48

2.11 Summary 49

3 Frequently Found Types of Multiple Exponence 50

3.1 Description of the Database and Method 50

3.2 Exceptional vs. Systematic ME 52

3.3 General Characteristics of Four Frequent Types 54

3.4 Type 1: Periodic ME 55

3.5 Type 2: Alternating ME 59

3.6 Type 3: Reinforcement ME 61

3.7 Type 4: Accidental ME 64

3.8 ME Involving a Non-Affixal Exponent 70

3.9 Possible ME in Compounds 72

3.10 ME in Reduplication 82

3.11 Discussion 82

3.12 Summary 89

4 Psycholinguistic Approaches 91

4.1 Processing Multiple Exponence 91

4.2 Acquisition 98

4.3 The Psychological Reality of Stem Alternation + Affix 109

4.4 "Repetition Blindness" 111

4.5 Conclusions 111

5 Origins of Type 1 (Periodic) Multiple Exponence 113

5.1 Introduction 113

5.2 Grammaticalization of Auxiliaries and Determiners 114

5.3 Auxiliaries That Grammaticalize, Creating Type 1 ME 115

5.4 Grammaticatization of Demonstratives and Articles 130

5.5 The Role of Compounding in the Origin of ME 139

5.6 ME and the Nature of Grammaticatization: Trapped Morphemes 142

5.7 Additional Discussion and Conclusion: Correlations of Grammaticalization with Type 1 ME 148

6 Origins of Types 2-4: Alternating, Reinforcement, and Accidental Multiple Exponence 151

6.1 Introduction 151

6.2 Literature on the Origins of ME 151

6.3 "Externalization" of Inflection 153

6.4 Processes That Lead to Reinforcement, Type 3 ME: Extension and Borrowing 157

6.5 Origins of Type 4, Accidental ME 168

6.6 The Origins of ME Are Not Limited to These Pathways 173

6.7 Loss of ME 178

6.8 Conclusions 183

7 Analysis of Multiple Exponence 185

7.1 Introduction 185

7.2 Possible Analyses from a Theory-Neutral Point of View 187

7.3 ME and the Elsewhere Principle: The Problem of Selective Blocking 195

7.4 Morpheme-Based Theories and ME 203

7.5 Inflection of Derived Words 216

7.6 Realizational Optimality Theory 221

7.7 Conclusion 226

8 Explanations 227

8.1 Introduction 227

8.1 Affix Adjacency and Affix Identity 227

8.2 Factors Contributing to Reinforcement of Previously Affixed Forms 234

5.1 ME and the Order of Affixes 239

8.1 Why Is ME Rare? 244

8.2 Why Do Languages Not Uniformly Eliminate ME? Why Is One Exponent Sometimes Not Enough? 247

8.3 Summary 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780190464356

0190464356

OCLC:

927619216