Languages: Georgian, German, English
This session contains an introduction to the classical version of Distributed Morphology (DM) in Halle & Marantz (1993) and the minimalist offspring of DM developed in Trommer (1999, 2003) which integrates the concept of 'Discontinuous Bleeding' from Noyer (1992). We will look in detail at DM analyses of Georgian, German, and English and see that most of the rule types assumed by Halle & Marantz can be reduced to the basic operation Vocabulary Insertion. Finally we compare the core assumptions of DM with those of other frameworks, especially Amorphous Morphology (Anderson, 1992) and Minimalist Morphology (Fabri & Wunderlich, 1994).
Slides
Basics of Distributed Morphology
Halle & Marantz (1993)
Readings:
Halle, M. and Marantz, A. (1993). Distributed Morphology and the pieces of inflection. In Hale, K. and Keyser, S. J., editors, The View from Building 20, pages 111-176. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Noyer, R. R. (1992).
Features, Positions and Affixes in Autonomous Morphological Structure. PhD thesis, MIT. (chapter 1).
Trommer, J. (1999).
Morphology consuming syntax' resources: Generation and parsing in a minimalist version of Distributed Morphology. In Proceedings of the ESSLI Workshop on Resource Logics and Minimalist Grammars.
Languages: Nimboran, Amharic
Slides
Feature Insertion: Nimboran
Readings:
Baerman, M. (2005). Directionality and (un)natural classes in syncretism. Language, 80(4):807-827.
Noyer, Rolf. 1998. Impoverishment Theory and Morphosyntactic Markedness, in S. Lapointe, D. Brentari and P. Farrell (eds.), Morphology and its Relation to Phonology and Syntax, CSLI, Palo Alto, pp. 264-285.
Harbour, D. (2003) The Kiowa case for feature insertion. NLLT 21: 543-578, 2003.
Trommer, J. (2003). Feature (non-)insertion in a minimalist approach to spellout. In Proceedings of CLS 39, pages 469-480. available under: .
Languages: Hungarian, Swahili, Nocte, Arizona Tewa
Under 'portmanteau' I understand here a morphological marker which 'fills' more than one morphological position. Such markers are extensively used in Minimalist Morphology (Fabri & Wunderlich, 1994), and explicitly defended in Stump (2001) and Trommer (2001). Here, I argue that there are no true portmanteaus, and that apparent portmanteaus are due to contextual allomorphy or to different factors. We will focus on an especially interesting class of markers which are ambiguous in the sense that they seem to act as portmanteaus in some contexts and as 'simple' markers in others. These markers, especially agreement markers in Hungarian and Nocte, are also highly relevant for the problem of apparent feature insertion.
Readings:
Stump, G. T. (2001). Inflectional Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (chapter 5).
Trommer, J. (2003e).
Hungarian has no portmanteau agreement. In Siptar and Pinon, C. editors, Approaches to Hungarian, volume 9, pages 283-302. Akademiai Kiado.
Languages: Fula, German
Readings:
Embick, D. and M. Halle (2005). On the Status of Stems in Morphological Theory. In T. Geerts and H. Jacobs eds. Proceedings of Going Romance 2003, John Benjamins.
Wiese, R. (1994). Phonological vs. morphological rules: on German umlaut and ablaut. Journal of Linguistics, 32:113-135.
Wolf, M. (2005).
An autosegmental theory of quirky mutations. In Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pages 370-378.
Languages: Luo, Spanish, Somali, Mam
Slides
Plural Insertion is Constructed Plural
Amharic: Class Features
Readings:
Alderete, J. (2001). Dominance effects as transderivational anti-faithfulness. Phonology, 18:201-253.
Fitzpatrick, J., Nevins, A. I., and Vaux, B. (2004). Exchange rules and feature-value variables. Handout of a talk at Naphc 2004.
Lecarme, J. (2002).
Gender ''polarity'': Theoretical aspects of Somali nominal morphology. In Boucher, P. and Plenat, M., editors, Many Morphologies, pages 109-141. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Nevins, A. I. (2003).
Do person/number syncretisms refer to negative values? handout of a talk at the LSA meeting, Atlanta, January 2003.
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