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- Authors: A A
  PubDate: 2023-06-21
  DOI: 10.26220/mmm.4401
  Issue No: Vol. 13 (2023)
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- Authors: A A
  PubDate: 2023-06-21
  DOI: 10.26220/mmm.4409
  Issue No: Vol. 13 (2023)
Polysynthesis: lessons from Northwest Caucasian languages
- Authors: Peter Arkadiev
  Pages: 1 - 26
  Abstract: Polysynthesis has fascinated linguists ever since polysynthetic languages, characterised by
  exceptional morphological complexity of verbs, have come to their attention. However,
  despite considerable advances in the study of polysynthesis in the last few decades (e.g.
  Mithun 1988, Baker 1996, Evans & Sasse 2002, Mattissen 2004, 2006, Mahieu & Tersis 2009
  and Fortescue et al. 2017), there is still no consensus as to how this notion should be defined
  and even whether it lends itself to a clear-cut definition at all, and, concomitantly, whether the
  class of “polysynthetic languages” can be delimited in a meaningful way (Zúñiga 2019).
  Nevertheless, its problematic status notwithstanding, the notion of polysynthesis has
  proven useful for the advancement of typology and linguistic theory in that the study of
  polysynthetic languages has both allowed linguists to better understand a variety of
  apparently “exotic” phenomena, such as head-marking and polypersonalism, incorporation,
  “lexical affixation”, templatic organisation of morphology and others, and offered new
  insights into the fundamental questions concerning the relations between morphology and
  syntax, inflection and derivation, lexical storage and online production etc.
  While not attempting to provide my own solutions to the problems of definition and
  delimitation of polysynthesis, in this article I shall first review the definitions of polysynthesis
  and its characteristic features proposed in the typological literature (section 2), then briefly
  introduce the major parameters of typological variation in polysynthetic morphology (section
  3), and finally present an overview of the polysynthetic properties of the Northwest Caucasian
  languages focusing on how they fit into the typological classifications proposed (section 4).
  PubDate: 2023-06-21
  DOI: 10.26220/mmm.4402
  Issue No: Vol. 13 (2023)
Motivating a Morphome: Albanian case syncretism as a case study
- Authors: Đorđe Božović
  Pages: 27 - 36
  Abstract: The notion of morphomes, going back to Aronoff (1994), figures prominently in the debates
  about the autonomous status of morphology and the nature of its interfaces with other modules
  of grammar, syntax in particular. A morphological pattern is said to be morphomic when no
  explicit motivation for it can be found outside of morphology itself (Corbett 2015, 2016), that
  is, when its existence cannot be explained away by phonological (e.g. shape of the stem) or
  semantic conditioning (i.e. feature composition)–what Aronoff (1994) has called “pure
  morphology”. Although for Aronoff all of morphology is ultimately morphomic (i.e.
  “unnatural”; cf. now also Aronoff 2016), morphomic patterns (or splits, in Corbett’s terms)
  contrast with (externally) motivated ones, and the issue at hand in much of the literature on
  morphomes so far is how to distinguish the two kinds of phenomena.1
  However, it has been observed that the distinction between morphomic and motivated may
  actually be a more fine-grained one, or a scale rather than a dichotomy (see Smith 2013 and
  other contributions to that volume; now also Herce 2020a). Here, I will present one case study
  in that vein, with data from Albanian (IE Balkan language), in which apparently morphomic
  patterns of case syncretism in noun inflection have been produced in fact by an external
  (syntactic) motivation. In that sense, I will argue that the Albanian noun inflection is both
  morphomic and motivated at the same time, thus being a curious case of a “motivated
  morphome” (sic!).
  The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, the theoretical background, concepts and
  their definitions are briefly introduced and explained. This is to set out the foundation for our
  case study, which is detailed in Section 3. Finally, some tentative conclusions are drawn from
  there in Section 4.
  PubDate: 2023-06-21
  DOI: 10.26220/mmm.4403
  Issue No: Vol. 13 (2023)
Locative forms in Nakh-Daghestanian as an example of a transcategorial
paradigm
- Authors: Marina Chumakina
  Pages: 37 - 46
  Abstract: The definition of a word class relies on the notion that different word classes have different
  paradigms: “canonically, lexemes in different syntactic categories exhibit different
  morphology,…inflect for different morphosyntactic property sets, and … have different
  exponents” (Stump 2015: 229). One possible deviation from this is transcategorial
  polyfunctionality: cases in which “distinct but related content is systematically expressed by
  the same morphology in different syntactic categories” (Stump 2015: 230).
  Word class division in the languages of Nakh-Daghestanian (North-East Caucasian) family
  in general is rather straightforward: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives (for those languages
  that have this class) and adverbs have distinct paradigms with the familiar mixed categories
  deviations: verbs normally have sub-paradigms of participles and verbal nouns which employ
  nominal paradigms.
  PubDate: 2023-06-21
  DOI: 10.26220/mmm.4404
  Issue No: Vol. 13 (2023)
Root reduplication and alignment overcome three challenges to the
biradical, OCP-based analysis of Semitic QaTaT stems
- Authors: Noam Faust
  Pages: 47 - 56
  Abstract: Greenberg (1950) reported on a major asymmetry in Semitic verbs: stems with identical final
  and penultimate consonants – henceforth QaTaT – are ubiquitous, whereas stems with identical
  initial and peninitial consonants – henceforth QaQaT – are almost non-existent. In order to
  explain this asymmetry, McCarthy (1981) famously proposed that the Obligatory Contour
  Principle (OCP), banning adjacent identical units, holds at the level of the Semitic root. Both
  √QTT and √QQT roots are illicit. Instead, QaTaT verbs are based on biradical roots √QT
  matched with a tri-positional template. As illustrated in (1) for the Modern Hebrew verb [ʃalal]
  ‘he invalidated’, the root is mapped to the template from left to right. When the final C-slot of
  the template (underlined) is left empty, the closest root consonant spreads to occupy it, in what
  McCarthy termed “template satisfaction”. Given these premises, a biradical root can never
  derive a QaQaT verb.
  PubDate: 2023-06-21
  DOI: 10.26220/mmm.4405
  Issue No: Vol. 13 (2023)
The productivity of adverbs and adverbials in Modern Hebrew
- Authors: Malka Muchnik
  Pages: 57 - 70
  Abstract: different languages, the definition of adverbs and adverbials is very problematic and
  controversial. In their research on adverb classes in European languages (German, English,
  Dutch, French and Italian), Pittner, Elsner & Barteld (2005) state that these classes are very
  heterogeneous and therefore difficult to define.
  Discussing Spanish, Salazar García (2007) reminds us that adverbs are usually considered
  very complex and heterogeneous, and this is the reason why we encounter enormous
  difficulties in defining them, both theoretically and descriptively. Since their semantic value
  and syntactic uses are highly divergent, it is hard to suggest a common definition and a
  coherent and systematic classification. Also, Maienborn & Schäfer (2011) comment that
  clear-cut definitions of adverbs and adverbials are difficult to formulate, as we define the
  word class adverb on the basis of the adverbial syntactic function.
  PubDate: 2023-06-21
  DOI: 10.26220/mmm.4406
  Issue No: Vol. 13 (2023)
Where did the Italian Verbal-Nexus N+N compounds come from'
- Authors: Jan Radimský
  Pages: 71 - 82
  Abstract: This article aims to trace the origin and development of Italian Verbal-Nexus N+N compounds
  (henceforth VNX NNs), such as trasporto merci – ‘transport of goods’, based on the Google ngrams
  frequency lists (2020), which are the most extensive diachronic linguistic data currently
  available.
  PubDate: 2023-06-21
  DOI: 10.26220/mmm.4407
  Issue No: Vol. 13 (2023)
A typological comparison of infixes and circumfixes
- Authors: Tim Zingler
  Pages: 83 - 92
  Abstract: While the existence of infixes and circumfixes is acknowledged in many relevant textbooks and
  handbooks on morphology and/or typology (e.g., Whaley 1997: 117; Hall 2000: 540;
  Moravcsik 2000: 548), very little is known about their behavior and distribution (cf. also Harris
  2010: 100, n. 1). If anything, both types are usually claimed to be cross-linguistically rare, even
  though no robust evidence in support of this is typically presented. One of the few language
  families known to have both affix types is Austronesian, and to the extent that the relevant
  literature provides examples of either type, they tend to come from this family. This situation
  suggests that a considerable amount of empirical groundwork is required in order to properly
  understand these two phenomena and to adequately account for them in theories of morphology.
  The present contribution is intended as a first step toward that goal. It will aggregate the results
  of two separate studies on the cross-linguistic distribution of infixes and circumfixes, Zingler
  (2022a, b). Both works are of an inductive nature and as such mostly point to areas that call for
  further research or that would appear to be of particular theoretical interest. These domains will
  be highlighted throughout this work.
  PubDate: 2023-06-21
  DOI: 10.26220/mmm.4408
  Issue No: Vol. 13 (2023)