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Prosody-syntax effects and analyticity| old_uid | 5510 |
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| title | Prosody-syntax effects and analyticity |
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| start_date | 2008/11/03 |
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| schedule | 14h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | A quasi-correlation appears to hold between prosodic complexity of lexical roots (a.k.a. "tone" in the taxonomic phonological sense of Pike and Goldsmith) and the degree of morphosyntactic analyticity (i.e. lack of obligatory suffixation). If something along these lines is empirically true, it's nevertheless quite surprising within any known model of grammar. I will discuss one local example of this tentative implicational universal, framed within a particular analysis of the Benue-Kwa subgroup of Niger-Congo in terms of cyclic linearization, and draw some theory-specific consequences for other part of the grammar of languages
within this local typological space, e.g. for the displacement vs. in-situ property as observed by Aboh (2007). Similar implications can be tested in other languages of relatively analytic type, including Haitian and some varieties of Chinese. |
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| responsibles | Zribi-Hertz |
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