Kayardild morphology and syntax

by Round, Erich R.

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Full title :Kayardild morphology and syntax / Erich R. Round.

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"This book presents new data and a formal analysis of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Northern Australia. It sets forth arguments for recognizing an intricate syntactic structure that underlies the exuberant distribution of inflectional features throughout the clause, and for an intermediate, 'morphomic' level of representation that mediates morphosyntactic features' realization as morphological forms. The book differs from existing treatments of Kayardild in unifying the explanation of shared morphological exponents, positing a detailed, empirically-grounded underlying syntax, identifying new clausal and nominal structures, simplifying the analysis of Kayardild's dual tense system, rejecting an analysis according to which some case markers are morphologically 'verbalizing' and some tense markers 'nominalizing', and arguing that upper bounds on syntactic complexity are inherently syntactic rather than derivative of constraints on morphology. Analyses are expressed formally in terms of syntactic structures and morphosyntactic features which will be interpretable to a broad range of theories. Early chapters provide overviews of Kayardild phonology and morphological structure in general, and a final chapter implements the analysis in constraint-based grammar. Example sentences are glossed across four or five lines, furnishing explicit analyses at multiple levels of representation, and an appendix gathers over one hundred examples sentences to provide large-scale empirical support for the syntactic analysis of tense inflection."--PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

Series Oxford linguistics on jacket.

The Physical Object

Description:xix, 295 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199654871, 0199654875
oclc:ocn823282110
LC Classification:PL7101.G39
Dewey Decimal:499.15

1.Introduction -- 1.1.The Kayardild language, its speakers, and sources -- 1.2.Novel contributions of the book -- 1.3.Structure of the grammar -- 1.4.Extensions and implications -- 1.5.Notational conventions -- 1.6.Outline -- 2.Morphological structures -- 2.1.Kayardild phonology -- 2.2.Roots and thematics -- 2.3.Suffixes -- 2.4.The termination -- 2.5.Suppletive allomorphy of uprop, uabl, and ucons -- 2.6.Morphomes -- 3.Specific stems and suffixes -- 3.1.Suffixes -- 3.2.Stems and stem-suffix dependencies -- 3.3.Song forms and their place in Kayardild grammar -- 3.4.The termination -- 4.Correlates of inflection -- 4.1.Inflectional features and their values -- 4.2.Morphological realization -- 4.3.Feature co-occurrence -- 4.4.Concord -- 4.5.Surface syntax, non-surface syntax, and concord -- 5.The clause and VP -- 5.1.Complementization and S-category nodes -- 5.2.The attachment of Tamt and Negation -- 5.3.Embedded S" -- 5.4.Embedded VP