Kayardild Morphology and Syntax by Erich R Round

Kayardild Morphology and Syntax by Erich R Round

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.

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.

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ISBN 13	9780199654871
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Titel	Kayardild Morphology and Syntax
Autor	Erich R Round
Serie	Oxford Studies Of Endangered Languages
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-11-29
Seitenanzahl	316
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