Morphology at the Interfaces: Reduplication and Noun Incorporation in Uto-Aztecan (Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today)

This monograph addresses morphology and its interfaces with phonology and syntax by examining comparative data from the Uto-Aztecan language family, and analyses involving reduplication as well as noun incorporation and related derivational morphology are provided within the framework of Distributed Morphology. Reduplication is treated by analyzing reduplicative morphemes (reduplicants) as morphological pieces (Vocabulary Items) inserted into syntactic slots at Morphological Structure. Noun incorporation constructions are analyzed as involving either incorporation (head movement in syntax, a la Baker 1988), or conflation, involving direct merger of a nominal root into verbal position (a la Hale and Keyser 2002). It is argued that denominal verb constructions should be treated as a sub-case of NI, as in Hale and Keyser (1993). Finally, the historical development of the polysynthesis parameter in Nahuatl is discussed, and a reconstruction of the likely stages of development, each of which is attested elsewhere in the family, is presented. Morphology at the Interfaces......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 10 INTRODUCTION......Page 12 1.1. The Uto-Aztecan languages and their classification......Page 18 1.2. Uto-Aztecan Grammar......Page 22 1.3. Uto-Aztecan historical linguistics and cultural prehistory......Page 31 1.4. Conclusion......Page 33 2.2. General assumptions......Page 34 2.3. The Pervasive Syntax Perspective and Distributed Morphology......Page 36 2.4. Comparative syntax and syntactic reconstruction......Page 41 2.5. Summary......Page 49 3.1. Introduction: The Modular-Derivational approach to reduplication......Page 50 3.2. Reduplication in Uto-Aztecan......Page 52 3.3. Capturing the Uto-Aztecan generalizations through constraint-ranking......Page 67 3.4. Some complicating data: A three-way distinction in Tohono O’odham......Page 72 3.5. Against the alternative analysis......Page 77 3.6. Conclusion......Page 83 4.2. Travis on the syntax of reduplication......Page 86 4.3. On the syntax of “phonological reduplication”......Page 96 4.4. Conclusion......Page 103 5.1. Introduction......Page 104 5.2. Denominal verbs and (or as?) Incorporation......Page 107 5.3. Hopi Denominal and NI verbs: Evidence for a unified analysis......Page 119 5.4. Against a lexicalist account of noun incorporation: Rosen (1989)......Page 126 5.5. Summary......Page 132 6.2. Categories of Noun Incorporation in Uto-Aztecan: Overview......Page 134 6.3. Noun incorporation in Uto-Aztecan I: Results of the survey......Page 143 6.4. Noun incorporation in Uto-Aztecan II: The data......Page 153 6.5. Conclusion......Page 178 7.1. Introduction......Page 180 7.2. Theoretical background: Incorporation and Conflation......Page 181 7.3. Late Insertion as the solution to the hyponymous object problem......Page 189 7.4. Non-DP complements to V: N-V compounding revisited......Page 200 7.5. Object polysynthesis and pronominal object arguments......Page 203 7.6. Conflation and non-object noun incorporation in Uto-Aztecan......Page 206 7.7. Conclusion......Page 221 8.1. Introduction......Page 222 8.2. Perspectives on Polysynthesis......Page 223 8.3. Subject and object polysynthesis in cross-linguistic perspective......Page 228 8.4. The Structure of Nahuatl......Page 235 8.5. Nahuatl in Uto-Aztecan context......Page 238 8.6. Conclusion......Page 244 9. CONCLUSION......Page 246 REFERENCES......Page 248 Language Index......Page 268 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 272 The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 276 Jason D. Haugen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [231]-249) And Indexes.