Templatic morphology through syntactic selection: Valency-changing extensions in Kinyarwanda
The existence of both morphological templates (Hyman 2003) and Mirror Principle (Baker 1985) compliant behaviour in the same language presents an interesting case of grammatical principles at odds. The two principles sometimes predict opposite orderings for the surface form of valency-changing deriv...
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| description | The existence of both morphological templates (Hyman 2003) and Mirror Principle (Baker 1985) compliant behaviour in the same language presents an interesting case of grammatical principles at odds. The two principles sometimes predict opposite orderings for the surface form of valency-changing derivational morphology in Bantu languages. In Kinyarwanda, this tension is unresolved, leading to certain forms being unavailable, rather than favouring one principle over the other. Independently available periphrastic forms are used to convey the problematic meanings. This paper presents an alternative to syntactic movement or Optimality Theoretic analyses for templatic morphology that have been proposed in the literature. It argues that syntactic selection by heads can better derive the facts of Kinyarwanda. Independent syntactic properties of the heads that underlie the derivational morphology suggest a particular set of selectional properties for these heads in Kinyarwanda, independent of the data showing their ordering. An analysis based on syntactic selection is sufficient to account both for the orders of the morphemes and their syntactic properties. This result suggests, in line with recent work, that syntactic selection is an alternative mechanism by which seemingly templatic behaviour in the morphology can be realised (Pylkkänen 2008; Harley 2013; Jung 2014). Keyword: Morphology; Template; Syntax; Selection; Bantu |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1238692022-10-01T21:21:55Z Templatic morphology through syntactic selection: Valency-changing extensions in Kinyarwanda Banerjee, Neil Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy The existence of both morphological templates (Hyman 2003) and Mirror Principle (Baker 1985) compliant behaviour in the same language presents an interesting case of grammatical principles at odds. The two principles sometimes predict opposite orderings for the surface form of valency-changing derivational morphology in Bantu languages. In Kinyarwanda, this tension is unresolved, leading to certain forms being unavailable, rather than favouring one principle over the other. Independently available periphrastic forms are used to convey the problematic meanings. This paper presents an alternative to syntactic movement or Optimality Theoretic analyses for templatic morphology that have been proposed in the literature. It argues that syntactic selection by heads can better derive the facts of Kinyarwanda. Independent syntactic properties of the heads that underlie the derivational morphology suggest a particular set of selectional properties for these heads in Kinyarwanda, independent of the data showing their ordering. An analysis based on syntactic selection is sufficient to account both for the orders of the morphemes and their syntactic properties. This result suggests, in line with recent work, that syntactic selection is an alternative mechanism by which seemingly templatic behaviour in the morphology can be realised (Pylkkänen 2008; Harley 2013; Jung 2014). Keyword: Morphology; Template; Syntax; Selection; Bantu Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Doctoral Fellowship 752-2017-0069) 2020-02-26T20:32:44Z 2020-02-26T20:32:44Z 2019-09 2019-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2397-1835 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123869 Banerjee, Neil. 2019. Templatic morphology through syntactic selection: Valency-changing extensions in Kinyarwanda. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4(1): 112. 1–31. © 2019 The Author(s) http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.920 Glossa Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Ubiquity Press, Ltd. Glossa |
| spellingShingle | Banerjee, Neil Templatic morphology through syntactic selection: Valency-changing extensions in Kinyarwanda |
| title | Templatic morphology through syntactic selection: Valency-changing extensions in Kinyarwanda |
| title_full | Templatic morphology through syntactic selection: Valency-changing extensions in Kinyarwanda |
| title_fullStr | Templatic morphology through syntactic selection: Valency-changing extensions in Kinyarwanda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Templatic morphology through syntactic selection: Valency-changing extensions in Kinyarwanda |
| title_short | Templatic morphology through syntactic selection: Valency-changing extensions in Kinyarwanda |
| title_sort | templatic morphology through syntactic selection valency changing extensions in kinyarwanda |
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