Inflectional affixes & clitics in Kaska (Northern Athabaskan)
| dc.contributor.author | O'Donnell, Meghan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-31T16:51:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-03-31T16:51:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0894-4539 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/126635 | |
| dc.description | Published as Coyote Papers: Working Papers in Linguistics, Special Volume Dedicated to the Indigenous Languages of the Americas | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper argues for a specific hierarchical syntactic structure for Kaska, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in the southern Yukon Territory and northeastern British Columbia. The arguments herein are grounded in Minimalist Syntax (Chomsky 1995; Collins 1997) and Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1994; Harley & Noyer 1999). Traditionally, Athabaskan morphology has exemplified templatic morphology, which by definition, has no meaningful correspondence between the underlying, morpho-syntactic hierarchy and the surface, morpho-phonological linear form. Using the derivation of transitive sentences, this paper shows that, in Kaska, there is a direct, meaningful correspondence between the hierarchical syntactic structure and the linear order of morphemes within the verb complex at spell-out. | |
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| dc.publisher | University of Arizona Linguistics Circle (Tucson, Arizona) | en_US |
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| dc.title | Inflectional affixes & clitics in Kaska (Northern Athabaskan) | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | University of Arizona | en_US |
| dc.identifier.journal | Coyote Papers | en_US |
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| dc.source.journaltitle | Coyote Papers | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-05-28T10:53:25Z | |
| html.description.abstract | This paper argues for a specific hierarchical syntactic structure for Kaska, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in the southern Yukon Territory and northeastern British Columbia. The arguments herein are grounded in Minimalist Syntax (Chomsky 1995; Collins 1997) and Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1994; Harley & Noyer 1999). Traditionally, Athabaskan morphology has exemplified templatic morphology, which by definition, has no meaningful correspondence between the underlying, morpho-syntactic hierarchy and the surface, morpho-phonological linear form. Using the derivation of transitive sentences, this paper shows that, in Kaska, there is a direct, meaningful correspondence between the hierarchical syntactic structure and the linear order of morphemes within the verb complex at spell-out. |
