Journal articles: 'Verbal morphology'

1

Salaberry, Rafael. "Tense Aspect in Verbal Morphology." Hispania 86, no. 3 (September 1, 2003): 559. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20062909.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Peterson, David A. "On Khumi Verbal Pronominal Morphology." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 28, no. 2 (June 25, 2002): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v28i2.1037.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

van Driem, George. "The Proto-Tibeto-Burman verbal agreement system." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 56, no. 2 (June 1993): 292–334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00005528.

Full text

Abstract:

Since the appearance of Stuart N. Wolfenden's monumentalOutlines of Tibeto-Burman linguistic morphologyin 1929, attention has increasingly focused not only on derivational processes in Tibeto-Burman, but also on the flexional morphology of conjugations and declensions. The first systematic comparison of Tibeto-Burman conjugational and pronominal morphology was James John Bauman's elaboratePronouns and pronominal morphology in Tibeto-Burmanin 1975. Bauman put to rest any lingering doubts that the conjugations of Tibeto-Burman languages could be attributed to an Austro- Asiatic substrate, and he adduced a vast body of data demonstrating the nativeness and antiquity of conjugational morphology in Tibeto-Burman. Verbal agreement in Tibeto-Burman has traditionally been known by Hodgson's term ‘pronominalization’, based on the assumption that conjugational affixes ultimately derive from ancient independent pronouns. Bauman demonstrated that the conjugational systems of Tibeto-Burman languages, and therefore any ancient pronominal system they may reflect, are more conservative than the independent pronominal systems attested in individual languages. Based on a comparison of these conjugations, Bauman (1975: 195, 237, 247) proposed the prototypical Tibeto-Burman agreement system shown in tables 1 and 2.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Press, J. Ian, and Mark J. Elson. "Macedonian Verbal Morphology: A Structural Analysis." Modern Language Review 86, no. 3 (July 1991): 803. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3731136.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Fowler, George, and Mark J. Elson. "Macedonian Verbal Morphology: A Structural Analysis." Language 67, no. 4 (December 1991): 865. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415093.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Németh, Boglárka, and Anna Sőrés. "Evaluative morphology in the verbal domain." Morphology and emotions across the world's languages 42, no. 1 (April 19, 2018): 202–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.00008.nem.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract So far, evaluative morphology has received less attention in the verbal domain than in the nominal and adjectival ones. This paper shows that – besides frequentative morphemes like -gAt and preverbs like tele- ‘full’, le- ‘down’, fel ‘up’, etc. – in Hungarian events can be evaluated by means of the verbalizer suffix -kVdik. This formation is unusual in evaluative morphology since it is a category-changing operation. The suffix -kVdik can be attached to adjectives and to nouns expressing a profession or an occupation. Depending on the speaker’s intention, the morphologically complex verb suffixed with -kVdik can attribute to the activity an evaluative, mostly pejorative meaning. The paper suggests that this phenomenon goes beyond evaluative morphology and can be better analyzed in terms of morphopragmatics.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Hyslop, Gwendolyn. "Grammaticalized sources of Kurtöp verbal morphology." Studies in Language 44, no. 1 (May 6, 2020): 132–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.17044.hys.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract Kurtöp (Tibeto-Burman; Bhutan) has a rich set of finite verbal suffixes which encode evidentiality, mirativity, and egophoricity. This article examines the origins of these suffixes in a typological context, showing how many of them have developed via recent grammaticalizations. Synchronic processes of nominalization and clause-chaining have provided the ideal syntactic contexts for these grammaticalizations to take place. Many of the grammaticalization pathways found here are shown to be typologically common, such as ‘give’ becoming an applicative. We find one suffix, the egophoric, which is an obvious borrowing. Based on the data presented here, this article puts forth the tentative hypothesis that due to principles of iconicity, miratives will tend to be recent grammaticalizations. Similarly, the fact that the Kurtöp egophoric has been borrowed is also, arguably, iconic.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Dubois, Sylvie, and Barbara M. Horvath. "Verbal Morphology in Cajun Vernacular English." Journal of English Linguistics 31, no. 1 (March 2003): 34–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424202250296.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Lawrence, Aimee. "Reconstruction of Proto-Kampa Verbal Morphology." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 38 (September 25, 2012): 256. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v38i0.3334.

Full text

Abstract:

In this paper, I adopt a fine-grained approach to reconstruction, reconstructing a number of verbal morphemes for the Kampan branch (a small branch of Arawak). I intend to identify easily-reconstructable morphemes and suggest a preliminary path of development for morphemes that are less transparent.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Palancar, Enrique L. "Verbal Morphology and Prosody in Otomi." International Journal of American Linguistics 70, no. 3 (July 2004): 251–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/425601.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Wagner, Laura, Lauren D. Swensen, and Letitia R. Naigles. "Children's early productivity with verbal morphology." Cognitive Development 24, no. 3 (July 2009): 223–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.05.001.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Nurse, Derek. "Focus in Bantu: verbal morphology and function." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 43 (January 1, 2006): 189–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.43.2006.291.

Full text

Abstract:

Although verb forms encoding focus were recorded in various Bantu languages during the twentieth century it was not until the late 1970's that they became the centre of serious attention, starting with the work of Hyman and Watters. In the last decade this attention has grown. While focus can be expressed variously, this paper concentrates largely on its morphological, partly on its tonal expression. On the basis of morphological and tonal behaviour, it identifies four blocks of languages, representing less than a third of all Bantu languages: those with metatony, those with a binary constituent contrast between verb ("disjunctive") and post-verbal ("conjunctive") focus, those with a three-way contrast, and those with verb initial /ni-/. Following Güldemann's lead, it is shown there is a fairly widespread grammaticalisation path whereby focus markers may come to encode progressive aspect, then present tense. Many Bantu languages today have a pre-stem morpheme /a/ 'non-past' and it is hypothesized that many of these /a/, which are otherwise hard to explain historically, may derive from an older focus marker.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

MLADENOVA, Marinela. "NEW RESEARCH ON BULGARIAN-CZECH VERBAL MORPHOLOGY." Ezikov Svyat (Orbis Linguarum) 17, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 200–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.v17.i2.24.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Minkyung Lee. "Tongue-Height Harmony in Kinyarwanda Verbal Morphology." Linguistic Association of Korea Journal 23, no. 1 (March 2015): 23–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.24303/lakdoi.2015.23.1.23.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen. "Chapter Three: The Emergency of Verbal Morphology." Language Learning 50 (July 2000): 93–190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0023-8333.50.s1.5.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Wukasch, Charles, and Mark J. Elson. "A Diachronic Interpretation of Macedonian Verbal Morphology." Slavic and East European Journal 35, no. 2 (1991): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/308338.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Ataa Allah, Fadoua. "Finite-state transducer for Amazigh verbal morphology." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 31, no. 1 (September 11, 2014): 21–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu045.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Grollmann, Selin. "Diachronic aspects of Bjokapakha epistemic verbal morphology." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43, no. 1 (August 28, 2020): 87–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ltba.18017.gro.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract Bjokapakha belongs to the Tshangla cluster of the Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) language family and is spoken in Central Bhutan. Like many languages of the Himalayan region, Bjokapakha exhibits a rich system of epistemic functions, centering around the notion of personal or subjective knowledge (a.k.a. egophoricity, conjunct-disjunct or mirativity). Morphosyntactically, the epistemic categories of Bjokapakha are expressed by constructions involving combinations of nominalisers and copulas which exhibit varying degrees of grammaticalisation. This paper presents the epistemic categories of Bjokapakha and examines the genesis of the Bjokapakha epistemic verbal system from a comparative perspective drawing on insights from other varieties of the Tshangla cluster. Furthermore, a first reconstruction of the nominalisers and copulas of Proto-Tshangla is proposed. It will become evident that nominalisers and copulas have played a crucial role in the emergence of epistemic verbal morphology of Bjokapakha and still constitute productive means for the grammaticalisation of new epistemic categories.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Sagarra, Nuria, and Nick C. Ellis. "FROM SEEING ADVERBS TO SEEING VERBAL MORPHOLOGY." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 35, no. 2 (June 2013): 261–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263112000885.

Full text

Abstract:

Adult learners have persistent difficulty processing second language (L2) inflectional morphology. We investigate associative learning explanations that involve the blocking of later experienced cues by earlier learned ones in the first language (L1; i.e., transfer) and the L2 (i.e., proficiency). Sagarra (2008) and Ellis and Sagarra (2010b) found that, unlike Spanish monolinguals, intermediate English-Spanish learners rely more on salient adverbs than on less salient verb inflections, but it is not clear whether this preference is a result of a default or a L1-based strategy. To address this question, 120 English (poor morphology) and Romanian (rich morphology) learners of Spanish (rich morphology) and 98 English, Romanian, and Spanish monolinguals read sentences in L2 Spanish (or their L1 in the case of the monolinguals) containing adverb-verb and verb-adverb congruencies or incongruencies and chose one of four pictures after each sentence (i.e., two that competed for meaning and two for form). Eye-tracking data revealed significant effects for (a) sensitivity (all participants were sensitive to tense incongruencies), (b) cue location in the sentence (participants spent more time at their preferred cue, regardless of its position), (c) L1 experience (morphologically rich L1 learners and monolinguals looked longer at verbs than morphologically poor L1 learners and monolinguals), and (d) L2 experience (low-proficiency learners read more slowly and regressed longer than high-proficiency learners). We conclude that intermediate and advanced learners are sensitive to tense incongruencies and—like native speakers—tend to rely more heavily on verbs if their L1 is morphologically rich. These findings reinforce theories that support transfer effects such as the unified competition model and the associative learning model but do not contradict Clahsen and Felser’s (2006a) shallow structure hypothesis because the target structure was morphological agreement rather than syntactic agreement.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Gates, Jesse P. "Verbal Triplication Morphology in Stau (Mazi Dialect)." Transactions of the Philological Society 115, no. 1 (April 6, 2016): 14–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-968x.12083.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Cho, Eun. "VP (and TP) Movement and Verbal Morphology." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 23, no. 1 (September 17, 1997): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v23i1.1294.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Driem, George Van. "An exploration of proto-kiranti verbal morphology." Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 22, no. 1 (January 1990): 27–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.1990.10411521.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Duval, Cameron. "Information-theoretic applications to Hupa verbal morphology." Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 9, no. 1 (May 15, 2024): 5715. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5715.

Full text

Abstract:

Hupa (Na:tinixwe Mixine:whe’) is a Pacific Coast Dene language spoken in Hoopa Valley in Northern California. Like its Dene sisters, Hupa exhibits complex verbal morphology which has attracted decades of theoretical research. One approach that has yet to have been applied to these languages is information theory. Previous information-theoretic research into verbal morphology has uncovered a cross-linguistic trend of grouping predictive information closer together and finding morphemes that are more mutually-informative to the root closer to the root, which in turn reduces overall surprisal and is easier on memory constraints. However, these studies analyzed prominently suffixing languages of Afro-Eurasia. This project is the first application of these information-theoretic concepts to a Dene language to investigate if these approaches also apply to explain morpheme order in a low-resource, Indigenous American language with intricate, prominently-prefixing morphology. The results indicate similar findings to previous research. Hupa demonstrates a word-level linear morpheme order that, on average, orders most mutually-informative morphemes closest to the verb root compared to a randomized baseline. This morpheme order also resulted in an average surprisal that was more comparable to optimized morpheme orders than a randomized baseline. Morpheme-type mutual information, however, demonstrates the discrepancies between word- and templatic-level information content in Hupa, which exemplifies the word-level efficiency that Hupa shares with other languages despite the typological uniqueness of its morphological grammar.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

肖, 毛毛. "Analysis of Verbal Reduplication from Distributed Morphology." Modern Linguistics 12, no. 04 (2024): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.12677/ml.2024.124214.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Pak, Miok D. "Syntax and Morphology of Temporal-Aspectual Constructions in Korean." Korean Linguistics 12 (January 1, 2004): 55–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/kl.12.03mdp.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract. Verbal nouns in Korean exhibit properties of both nouns and verbs in that they assign both verbal and nominal cases to the arguments. Such mixed categorial behavior of verbal nouns is manifest only in certain environments, namely in the complement position of ha (a so-called light verb in Korean) and in the complement position of aspectual morphemes such as cwung 'during', cen 'before', and hwu 'after. Due to their mixed properties, the categorial status of verbal nouns in these environments has long been an issue of debate. This paper mainly discusses temporal-aspectual constructions, and proposes that they can be distinguished into three types, Types A, B, and C. Each type of temporal-aspectual construction has a different morpho-syntactic structure. The paper further claims that verbal nouns are inherently unspecified for their grammatical category (following Alexiadou 1997, 1998, Halle and Marantz 1993, and van Hout and Roeper 1998 among others), and different morpho-syntactic structures trigger different categorial status of verbal nouns in these environments. The complex categorial behavior of verbal nouns in temporal-aspectual constructions, then, is not only explained under the analysis proposed in this paper but is also expected.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

Serrat, Elisabet, Mònica Sanz-Torrent, Sara Feijóo, Silvia Maria Chireac, and Joseph Hilferty. "Acquiring verbs in Spanish." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10, no. 1 (June 15, 2012): 133–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.10.1.04ser.

Full text

Abstract:

The objective of the present study focuses on exploring two proposals about the acquisition of the grammatical category of verb. On the one hand, the study aims at analyzing whether the acquisition of a given mass of verbal lexical items occurs before the emergence of productive verbal morphology. On the other hand, the study also explores the possibility that the acquisition of negative structures emerges before productive verbal morphology as well. The study presents longitudinal data based on the linguistic production of a monolingual Spanish-speaking girl at the age of 19 to 27 months. These data show that the amount of verbal vocabulary is a good indicator of productivity as far as verbal morphology is concerned, but such vocabulary development occurs simultaneous to morphological development. The data also show that the learning and productive use of negation occurs before productivity in verbal morphology. These results are discussed in connection to the approach that claims that distributional analysis is a good mechanism for the acquisition of grammatical categories.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Paster, Mary. "The verbal morphology and phonology of Asante Twi." Studies in African Linguistics 39, no. 1 (June 1, 2010): 78–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v39i1.107285.

Full text

Abstract:

This paper presents an analysis of the verbal morphology and associated phonological processes in Asante Twi, a member of the Akan group of languages/dialects spoken in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, which belongs to the Nyo subgroup of the Kwa language family (Lewis 2009). There has been considerable interest in Akan in the theoretical literature, largely due to some peculiarities in the tense/aspect system which will be addressed later in this paper. However, the verbal morphology and phonology have been given relatively little attention. In this paper I show that the verbal morphology exhibits a number of interesting properties including tonal marking of tense/aspect categories – the latter having been largely ignored or misrepresented in the previous literature.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Whittle, Anna, and Roy Lyster. "Focus on Italian Verbal Morphology in Multilingual Classes." Language Learning 66, no. 1 (August 18, 2015): 31–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lang.12131.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Jacques, Guillaume. "Celerative: the encoding of speed in verbal morphology." STUF - Language Typology and Universals 77, no. 2 (July 1, 2024): 261–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2024-2006.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract While speed is a secondary parameter in some associated motion systems, some languages have verbal affixes dedicated to the encoding of speed – celerative markers. Celeratives can encode both quick and slow speed and are in some languages even the main or the sole way of expressing this meaning. However, some morphemes not only encode speed, but also other types of action manner, in particular hurry or suddenness, following colexification patterns also observed in the lexicon crosslinguistically. This paper provides a first overview of this category in the world’s languages, and more generally suggests that action manner constitutes a set of comparative concepts that can be be encoded morphologically.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Oliva, Jesús, J. Ignacio Serrano, M. Dolores del Castillo, and Ángel Iglesias. "Cross-Linguistic Cognitive Modeling of Verbal Morphology Acquisition." Cognitive Computation 9, no. 2 (March 6, 2017): 237–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12559-017-9454-8.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Bender, Emily M., David Wax, and Michael Wayne Goodman. "From IGT to precision grammar: French verbal morphology." LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 3 (April 8, 2012): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.581.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Subirats, Carlos. "Verbal Morphology in the Electronic Dictionary of Spanish." Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 13, no. 1 (January 1, 1989): 179–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.13.1.07sub.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Stoops, Anastasia, and Kiel Christianson. "Syntactic predictability modulates parafoveal processing of verbal morphology." Journal of Vision 22, no. 14 (December 5, 2022): 3284. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.14.3284.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Nordlinger, Rachel. "Verbal morphology in Murrinh-Patha: evidence for templates." Morphology 20, no. 2 (September 9, 2010): 321–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11525-010-9184-z.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Chernev, V. "AN OUTLINE OF THE ANALYTICAL APPROACH TOWARDS THE KAZAKH VERBAL MORPHOLOGY." Tiltanym, no. 3 (August 25, 2020): 90–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.55491/2411-6076-2020-3-90-103.

Full text

Abstract:

The Kazakh morphology has always been one of the key research topics in the Kazakh linguistics, as well as a key matter in the Kazakh teaching methodology. Nevertheless, it is evident that some of the topics related to Kazakh verbal morphology still require a thorough research. In particular, creation and use of the modern software for morphological analysis, as well as outlining more comprehensive methods of teaching Kazakh as a second/foreign language [1] may require a different approach towards the morphological analysis. Even though the analytical morphology pattern outlined in this paper does not contradict the internal structure of the Kazakh language, it has not been in consistent use either in the academic grammars, or in the KSL/KFL teaching methodology.The paper provides a consistent distinction between primary and secondary finite forms. The former denote a temporal and personal meaning in every single context, regardless of any peculiarities thereof, whereas the latter are essentially based on verbals (also known as non-finite verb forms) [2]. In terms of a strictly morphological approach the “secondary tenses» are predicative forms of verbals. The tense meaning conveyed by these forms lies rather in the field of semantics than in the field of morphology

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

Overall, Simon E. "From verb to noun and back again: Non-referential uses of nominalizations in Aguaruna (Chicham)." STUF - Language Typology and Universals 71, no. 1 (March 26, 2018): 133–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2018-0006.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractThe paper describes the reanalysis of deverbal nominalizations as verbal forms, allowing them to function as predicates of finite and dependent clauses. The paper questions how the reanalyzed forms mark verbal grammatical categories, and data is presented to show that verbal morphology may be marked on a copula, or in some cases directly marked on the nominalization, clearly showing that reanalysis has taken place. The paper also questions what happens to nominal morphology associated with a reanalyzed nominalization, and shows that this too can be reanalyzed and become functionally part of the verbal switch-reference system.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Pérez-Paz, Verónica Isabel, Natalia Arias-Trejo, and Elda Alicia Alva. "La Influencia del Número de Objetos y las Claves Verbales en la Distinción Temprana del Plural." Anales de Psicología 32, no. 3 (July 28, 2016): 863. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesps.32.3.225521.

Full text

Abstract:

The linguistic distinction of plurals in early developmental stages is dependent on the verbal cues provided and on the number of members in a set. More than two objects in a set facilitate plural production. Also, multiple verbal cues help understand plurals in contrast to single verbal cues such as the noun morphology alone. It remains unknown whether in a comprehension task a set with only 2 objects is associated to a plural frame, and whether the verbal cues provided play a fundamental role on the aforesaid association.Two preferential looking experiments were carried out with 24-month-old toddlers. Their ability to associate multiple plural verbal cues (E1) and morphology noun alone to a set of 2 objects (E2) was evaluated.Toddlers associated a set of 2 objects to verbal frames containing multiple cues of plurality, but not to the noun morphology alone. These findings show that, as in production, there is a certain difficulty in linguistically distinguishing a set with few objects as a representation of plural during early childhood. Nonetheless, this difficulty is diminished when multiple verbal cues are provided. This demonstrates toddlers’ ability to retrieve information from enriched syntactical frames.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Al Kathiri, Amir Azad Adli, and Julien Dufour. "The Morphology of the Basic Verbal Stems in Eastern Jibbali/Śħrḗt." Journal of Semitic Studies 65, no. 1 (2020): 171–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgz035.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract This paper is a presentation of the verbal morphology of the basic stems (Ga and Gb morphological classes) in a dialect of Jibbali/Śħrḗt (Modern South Arabian sub-family, Semitic family) spoken in Eastern Dhofar (Sultanate of Oman). It aims, as far as possible, at an exhaustive description of the existing verbal types and its core is a collection of paradigms obtained through elicitation. Focus is given to the system of phonologically-triggered allomorphy that characterizes the Jibbali/Śħrḗt (and Modern South Arabian) verbal morphology, whereby to a given inflectional cell correspond several morphological patterns the choice between which is determined by the characteristics of the root. Surface phonological processes necessary to an apprehension of verbal forms are also summarized.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Arkadiev, Peter. "Finiteness in morphology and syntax: Evidence from Abaza." Voprosy Jazykoznanija, no. 1 (2023): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/0373-658x.2023.1.103-131.

Full text

Abstract:

The article surveys morphological and syntactic ramifi cations of finiteness and nonfiniteness of verbal forms in the polysynthetic Abaza language (Northwest Caucasian, Karachay-Cherkessia). In Abaza, a whole range of morphological phenomena exhibit more or less robust correlations with dependent resp. subordinate status of the clause. However, I show that none of these phenomena can be treated as an unequivocal indicator of (non)finiteness, paying particular attention to several types of verbal forms that combine morphological features of both finiteness and nonfiniteness. Hypotheses motivating these “paradoxical” constellations of properties are put forward.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Eunjoo Han. "Vowel harmony in hiatus contexts in Korean verbal morphology." Studies in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology 15, no. 2 (August 2009): 341–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17959/sppm.2009.15.2.341.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

Gor, Kira, and Svetlana Cook. "Nonnative Processing of Verbal Morphology: In Search of Regularity." Language Learning 60, no. 1 (March 2010): 88–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00552.x.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

42

Gurevich, Olga. "The Status of the Morpheme in Georgian Verbal Morphology." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 29, no. 1 (June 15, 2003): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v29i1.1028.

Full text

Abstract:

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations (2003)

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

43

Mihas, Elena. "Nominal and verbal temporal morphology in Ashéninka Perené (Arawak)." Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 45, no. 1 (May 2013): 43–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2014.883724.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

44

Arkadiev, Peter M. "Syntax in morphological guise: Interrogative verbal morphology in Abaza." Linguistic Typology 24, no. 2 (August 27, 2020): 211–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-5004.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractAbaza, a polysynthetic ergative Northwest Caucasian language, possesses a typologically unique system of forming content questions by means of inflectional marking in the verb. I offer a detailed description of this peculiar system, showing how it is grounded in the more general pattern of encoding relativization by means of prefixes forming part of the basic cross-referencing paradigms. I also discuss a tentative diachronic scenario, explaining how at least a subpart of the synthetic interrogative marking in Abaza (and its close relative Abkhaz) could have emerged via univerbation of pseudocleft focus constructions.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

45

Ferrari-Bridgers, Franca. "Luganda verb morphology." Studies in African Linguistics 38, no. 1 (June 1, 2009): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v38i1.107294.

Full text

Abstract:

In this paper, I propose a novel morphological analysis of the Luganda (ISO 639-3: lug) verbal suffixes [-YE] and [-A]. I argue that the suffix [-YE] is bi-morphemic: [-Y] is a Perfective aspect morpheme, while [-E] is a functional suffix found in linguistic contexts indicating a change of state in the immediate past or in the immediate future. The data analysis further suggests that suffix [-A] is a default marker used as phonological filler. Finally, I show that the different linguistic contexts of use of the markers [-Y] [-A] and [-E] explain their distribution across the Indicative, Subjunctive and Imperative moods.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

46

Garbacz, Piotr. "Morphology and syntax in the Scandinavian vernaculars of Ovansiljan." Linguistic Variation 19, no. 2 (July 15, 2019): 199–231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lv.12016.gar.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract The paper deals with the assumed correlation between morphological and syntactic phenomena, especially the one that has its roots in a parametric approach to syntax since (Chomsky 1981). Its main focus is on testing predictions presented in two works (Bobaljik and Thráinsson 1998 and Holmberg 2010a). These papers connect verbal morphology with a clustering of syntactic phenomena in the Scandinavian languages and maintain that morphological evidence – in the form of ‘rich’ verbal agreement – signifies a positive setting of a parameter that in turn makes certain syntactic patterns possible. In the present paper it is shown how this relation works when tested on a group of Ovansiljan vernaculars (East Scandinavian non-standard varieties). Five of these vernaculars have retained verbal agreement in number and person, whereas two others have not. It turns out that the hypotheses encounter difficulties when faced with the Ovansiljan data.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

47

VanPatten, Bill, Gregory D. Keating, and Michael J. Leeser. "Missing verbal inflections as a representational problem." Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2, no. 2 (May 21, 2012): 109–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.2.01pat.

Full text

Abstract:

A continuing concern in second language acquisition (SLA) research is whether problems with inflectional morphology are representational or related somehow to performance. In this study, we examine 25 non-advanced learners of L2 Spanish and compare them with 18 native Spanish speakers on three grammatical structures: subject-verb inversion, adverb placement and person-number inflections on verbs. We use self-paced reading as a measure of underlying sensitivity to grammatical violations. Our results clearly show that the L2 learners pattern like the native speakers on the two syntactic structures; both groups demonstrate sensitivity to grammatical violations while reading sentences for meaning. For person-number on verbs, L2 learners did not show sensitivity to grammatical violations whereas the native speakers did. We argue that these results suggest a representational problem for morphology in our L2 population.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

48

Lardiere, Donna. "Dissociating syntax from morphology in a divergent L2 end-state grammar." Second Language Research 14, no. 4 (October 1998): 359–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/026765898672500216.

Full text

Abstract:

This article addresses current proposals in the literature suggesting that thematic verb-raising is optional in the grammars of L2 acquirers, due either to failure to acquire verbal agreement morphology or to an impairment of the mechanism relating the ‘richness’ of morphological agreement paradigms to syntactic feature strength. I examine naturalistic longitudinal production data from Patty, a native Chinese speaker whose L2 English grammar has ‘fossilized’ with regard to verbal agreement morphology. The data show that, despite the omission of regular agreement suffixation in about 96% of obligatory contexts, thematic verbs are never raised in Patty's English,thus showing no optionality of raising.The results indicate that even in cases where regular verbal morphology is neveracquired,it is still possible for the learner to determine feature strength and the status of verb-raising in the target language.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

49

Ruda, Marta. "On impersonals in Kashubian, Polish, and Silesian: Generic modals and [3SG] in null subject languages." Journal of Slavic Linguistics 32, no. 3 (2024): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2024.a950577.

Full text

Abstract:

abstract: In this paper I offer data showing that Kashubian, Polish, and Silesian have a largely parallel system of impersonals with a syntactically projected subject. In the structures with agreeing verbal morphology such as (most) modal impersonals in Kashubian, the subject is nominative, implying that in these structures [Case] is present in its projection. In the structures with default verbal morphology such as modal impersonals in Polish and Silesian, the subject is not nominative, which follows from the lack of verbal [φ] in the clausal spine (and [Case] in the projection of the subject). The discussion has implications for developing defining characterisations of null subject languages.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

50

Wälchli, Bernhard. "The morphologization of negation constructions in Nalca (Mek, Tanah Papua), or, how nothing easily moves to the middle of a word." Linguistics 56, no. 6 (November 27, 2018): 1413–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2018-0027.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractThe Mek language Nalca has undergone a rapid synthetization of verbal negation by way of two successive stages of asymmetric negation, the first one involving referential zeroing with a verbal noun, the second one reintroducing person marking with an auxiliary in analogy to non-verbal predicates. This development can be traced in texts in the more conservative closely related Mek language Eipo. Referential zeroing originally had the connotation of absolute negation (more than the denial of one specific event). As Nalca negation was integrated into inflectional morphology, it developed some of the hallmarks of autonomous morphology – morphomes and empty morphs. Nalca negation illustrates how grammaticalization and analogy can go hand-in-hand. The fusion of verbal negation is a case of the morphologization of a construction which does not occur in isolation but in concert with other similar processes, together entailing a fragmentation of negation marking. Finally, the Nalca development shows that cases of fusion of verbal negation must be taken into account when dealing with the interplay of existential negation and verbal negation in terms of cyclic processes.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

Journal articles on the topic 'Verbal morphology'

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles