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Kayardild Morphology and Syntax Erich R. Round (Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Queensland)

Kayardild Morphology and Syntax By Erich R. Round (Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Queensland)

Kayardild Morphology and Syntax by Erich R. Round (Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Queensland)


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This book presents new data and analyses of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Australia. By virtue of the technical format employed, the book makes Kayardild accessible to mainstream formal linguistic theory, and so will appeal to a broad new audience as well as to those who know Kayardild well.

Kayardild Morphology and Syntax Summary

Kayardild Morphology and Syntax by Erich R. Round (Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Queensland)

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.

About Erich R. Round (Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Queensland)

Having spent nine months in the field with the last speakers of Kayardild, Erich R. Round received his doctorate from Yale University in 2009 and completed a post-doctoral appointment at Yale in 2011. He is now Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he continues his research on typological and theoretical morphology and phonology.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction ; 2. Morphological Structures ; 3. Specific Stems and Suffixes ; 4. Correlates of Inflection ; 5. The Clause and VP ; 6. The DP ; 7. DP Juxtaposition ; 8. Feature Percolation ; 9. Discussion ; 10. Particles ; 11. Constraint-based Realizational Morphology ; Appendix ; References ; Index

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NPB9780199654871
9780199654871
0199654875
Kayardild Morphology and Syntax by Erich R. Round (Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Queensland)
New
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2012-11-29
316
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