The structure of words at the interfaces / edited by Heather Newell, Máire Noonan, Glyne Piggott and Lisa deMenaTravis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newell, Heather, 1975- editor.

Noonan, Máire, editor.

Piggott, G. L., 1942- editor.

Travis, Lisa deMena, editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 68.

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word formation.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Vocabulary.

Physical Description:

xix, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press 2017.

Summary:

This volume takes a variety of approaches to the question 'what is a word?', with particular emphasis on where in the grammar wordhood is determined. Chapters in the book all start from the assumption that structures at, above, and below the 'word' are built in the same derivational system: there is no lexicalist grammatical subsystem dedicated to word-building. This type of framework foregrounds the difficulty in defining wordhood. Questions such as whether there are restrictions on the size of structures that distinguish words from phrases, or whether there are combinatory operations that are specific to one or the other, are central to the debate. In this respect, chapters in the volume do not all agree. Some propose wordhood to be limited to entities defined by syntactic heads, while others propose that phrasal structure can be found within words. Some propose that head-movement and adjunction (and Morphological Merger, as its mirror image) are the manner in which words are built, while others propose that phrasal movements are crucial to determining the order of morphemes word-internally. 00All chapters point to the conclusion that the phonological domains that we call words are read off of the morphosyntactic structure in particular ways. It is the study of this interface, between the syntactic and phonological modules of Universal Grammar, that underpins the discussion in this volume.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Heather Newell Newell, Heather, Máire Noonan Noonan, Máire, Glyne Piggott Piggott, Glyne, Lisa deMena Travis Travis, Lisa deMena 1

1.1 What is a word? 1

1.2 Approaches to word formation within a syntactic framework 3

1.3 A typology of word formation approaches 5

1.4 The chapters 8

1.5 Conclusion 16

1.6 Some outstanding questions 17

2 Nested phase interpretation and the PIC / Heather Newell Newell, Heather 20

2.1 Against the PIC 20

2.1.1 Phase domains 21

2.1.2 PIC evidence 23

2.2 Evidence against the PIC 24

2.2.1 Late Adjunction 25

2.2.2 Agree and Move 25

2.2.3 Post-spell-out movement 27

2.3 Implications of the elimination of the PIC for the PF branch 30

2.3.1 Late Adjunction revisited 31

2.3.2 Lower-copy spell-out 33

2.4 Pure phonology and the PIC 34

2.4.1 Phonosyntactic mismatches in Ojibwe 35

2.4.2 Infixation 37

2.4.3 Phonological conclusions 38

2.5 Conclusion 39

3 Wordhood and word-internal domains / Glyne Piggott Piggott, Glyne, Lisa deMena Travis Travis, Lisa deMena 41

3.1 Introduction 41

3.2 Spell-out and head movement 42

3.2.1 Background 42

3.2.2 Post-spell-out head movement: Malagasy 44

3.2.3 Phases and inalienable DPs 49

3.2.4 Phases and floated quantifiers 52

3.2.5 Phases and cyclicity 53

3.2.5.1 Internal Merge of heads 55

3.2.5.2 External Merge of heads 55

3.2.5.3 Merge of two heads with no projection 57

3.2.6 Wordhood and the nature of words 58

3.3 Reconciling some syntax-phonology mismatches 60

3.3.1 Introduction of PF movement 60

3.3.2 PF movement in Maybrat 62

3.3.3 PF movement in Mangap-Mbula 67

3.3.4 PF movement in Ojibwe 69

3.4 Conclusion 72

4 Syntactic domain types and PF effects / Bethany Lochbihler Lochbihler, Bethany 74

4.1 Introduction 74

4.2 Syntactic phases 75

4.3 Phonological evidence for phases in Ojibwe 79

4.3.1 Intermediate/word-internal phases 80

4.3.1.1 Footing and secondary stress assignment 80

4.3.1.2 Vowel hiatus resolution 81

4.3.2 Final phases 83

4.3.2.1 Independent prosodic word boundaries 83

4.3.2.2 Main stress assignment 85

4.4 Apocope and T-Palatalization: An ordering paradox 86

4.4.1 Apocope and T-Palatalization 87

4.4.2 Animate intransitive verb -i (T-Pal>FLVD) 89

4.4.3 Participle -i (FLVD>T-Pal) 92

4.4.4 Derivation of participle clauses 96

4.5 Conclusion 99

5 Exceptions to the Mirror Principle and morphophonological 'action at a distance': The role of 'word'-internal phrasal movement and spell-out / Neil Myler Myler, Neil 100

5.1 Introduction 100

5.2 Calculating depth of embedding and temporal order of Vocabulary Insertion 101

5.3 Case studies 104

5.3.1 Spirantization in Nyakusa 104

5.3.2 Optionality in Ndebele reduplication and the order of Vocabulary Insertion 110

5.3.2.1 Ndebele reduplication: An introduction 110

5.3.2.2 The interaction between reduplication and affix order in Ndebele 115

5.3.3 Sanskrit: Prefixal particles, the past tense augment, and ruki at a distance 118

5.3.4 Conclusion to section 5.3 120

5.4 Phonological wordhood: On squishing, head-banging, and glomming 120

5.5 Conclusion 124

6 Quantitative component interaction: Data from Tagalog nasal substitution / Kie Zuraw Zuraw, Kie 126

6.1 Introduction: Quantitative component interaction 126

6.2 Tagalog nasal substitution background 126

6.3 Morphological differences 128

6.3.1 Distinctions among man-X verbs 128

6.3.2 Possible mechanisms 131

6.3.3 What kind of variation? 132

6.3.4 Pan-RED-X gerunds 133

6.3.5 Man-RED-X nominals 134

6.3.6 Pan-X adjectives, reservational vs instrumental 135

6.3.7 Pan-X nominalizations 137

6.3.8 Pan-X verbs 138

6.4 Conclusion 139

7 Suppletion is local: Evidence from Hiaki / Jonathan David Bobaljik Bobaljik, Jonathan David, Heidi Harley Harley, Heidi 141

7.1 Introduction 141

7.2 Hiaki suppletive verbs 144

7.2.1 Suppletion and structure 145

7.2.2 Locality refined 149

7.3 Beyond Hiaki 151

7.4 Suppletion and agreement 155

7.5 Conclusion 158

8 The paradoxes of Mebengokre's analytic, causative / Andrés Pablo Salanova Salanova, Andrés Pablo 160

8.1 Introduction 160

8.2 A brief overview of Mebengokre morphosyntax 161

8.3 0= as a postposition 168

8.4 An analysis involving verb serialization 175

8.5 The analysis of true causatives 177

8.6 Conclusions and further questions 180

Appendix 8.A 0= as an applicative 182

9 Ein is ein and that is that: A note on anti-homophony and metamorphology / Thomas Leu Leu, Thomas 185

9.1 Introduction 185

9.2 Metamorphology 186

9.3 That is that 192

9.4 Ein is ein 195

9.4.1 Article and numeral ein 195

9.4.2 N-ein and n-on 197

9.4.3 M-ein and m-on 201

9.4.4 Pronominal ein and on 202

9.4.5 A note on French verbal inflection /õ/ 204

9.4.6 Overt and non-overt ein 205

9.5 Some consequences and concerns 206

10 Dutch and German R-pronouns and P-stranding: R sure it's P-stranding? / Máire Noonan Noonan, Máire 209

10.1 Introduction 209

10.1.1 Syntax all the way up and down 209

10.1.2 The data: R-pronouns and P-stranding 210

10.1.3 The data: Place adpositions 213

10.2 R- in Dutch versus r- in German 215

10.3 The shadow construction: First pass 218

10.4 Deconstructing R-pronouns and shadow-Ps 221

10.4.1 R-pronoun stranding in Dutch and CG PPs 225

10.4.2 Formal German locational PPs 227

10.4.3 'P-stranding' analysed as R-pronoun stranding 228

10.4.4 Further properties of the shadow construction in CG 229

10.5 Directional PPs in German and CG 233

10.5.1 Formal German directional PPs 233

10.5.2 'P-stranding' in FG directional PPs 235

10.5.3 Colloquial German directional PPs 236

10.6 Conclusion 238

11 Adjunction of complex heads inside words: A reply to Piggott and Travis (2013) / Éric Mathieu Mathieu, Éric, Brandon J. Fry Fry, Brandon J., Michael Barrie Barrie, Michael 240

11.1 Introduction 240

11.2 Adjunction of complex heads inside a word 242

11.3 Theoretical problems 246

11.4 Empirical problems 249

11.5 The alternative: Phrasal Merge 254

11.6 Conclusion 260

12 Verb stem formation and event composition in Oji-Cree / Tanya Slavin Slavin, Tanya 261

12.1 The Oji-Cree verb stem and the problem of the left-edge requirement 261

12.1.1 The left-edge requirement 262

12.2 Event composition in the literature 264

12.3 Proposal 266

12.4 Evidence for event composition 268

12.4.1 Speaker oriented preverbs 269

12.4.2 Sentence-level preverbs 270

12.4.3 Aspectual preverbs 271

12.4.3.1 Nihtaa- 271

12.4.3.2 Kiiwe- 273

12.4.3.3 Maacii- 274

12.4.3.4 Pooni- 279

12.4.4 Agent-oriented preverbs 282

12.4.5 Pi- 285

12.4.6 Restrictions on relative preverbs 287

12.4.6.1 Onci- 288

12.4.6.2 Ishi- 290

12.4.7 Quantifier caaki- 'all' 293

12.4.8 Summary: The LER and event composition 295

12.5 Conclusion 296

13 Adjuncts as a diagnostic of polysynthetic word formation in Inuit / Richard Compton Compton, Richard 297

13.1 Introduction 297

13.2 Background 300

13.3 Inuit adverbs 302

13.3.1 Evidence for a category of adverbs 302

13.3.2 Adverb ordering in word formation 306

13.3.3 Phrasal adverbs within a fixed hierarchy 310

13.3.4 Right-headedness within a fixed hierarchy 311

13.4 'Suffixal' adverbs without a hierarchy 314

13.4.1 An unresolved issue involving scope 318

13.5 Conclusion 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198778264

0198778260

9780198778271

0198778279

OCLC:

955313180