Scope, phonology and morphology in an agglutinating language

Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) variable suffix ordering

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7994052
AutoresGabriela Dalla-Corte Caballero (0000-0002-8221-017X, University of California San Diego, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen20
Número1
Páginas165-204
Fecha de publicación2010-04-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMorphology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1871-5621 • E-ISSN: 1871-5656
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11525-010-9147-4
OpenAlexW2138159596
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas31

What is the nature of the interaction between scope, phonological conditions and morphologically specified precedence relations in determining affix combinatorics in morphologically complex languages? In depth studies of affix ordering patterns in typologically diverse languages reveal intricate interactions among multiple factors. Mixed scope/template systems, for instance, have been characterized as either involving scope taking precedence over templates [Athabaskan (Rice 2000)], or templates overriding scope [Chichewa (Hyman 2002, 2003) and Pulaar (Paster 2005)]. This paper makes an empirical contribution by documenting a novel type of affix order system of a previously unstudied language, Choguita Rarámuri, a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico, which features free affix permutation, and which cannot be characterized as either 'template-emergent' or 'scope-emergent'. In this agglutinating language, scope and morphological constraints are freely ranked, with phonological subcategorization overriding all other constraints. This paper also documents how semantically non-compositional suffix sequences may arise through priming effects and morphophonologically conditioned multiple exponence

Affix · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Phonology · Scope (computer science · Suffix · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Artificial Intelligence