Sadler, Louisa and Nordlinger, Rachel (2006) 'Case stacking in realizational morphology.' Linguistics, 44 (3). pp. 459-487. ISSN 0024-3949
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Abstract
Case stacking, the phenomenon whereby a single word may bear multiple cases reflecting its relation to a number of different syntactic elements, is an important phenomenon both for the development of theories of inflectional morphology and for our understanding of the relation between morphology and syntax. However, to date it has received virtually no attention from theoretical morphology. Working within the inferential-realizational framework of paradigm function morphology (PFM), we provide a morphological analysis of the phenomenon of case stacking as found in the Australian Aboriginal languages Kayardild (Tangkic) and Martuthunira (Pama-Nyungan). We argue that the standard assumptions concerning morphological property sets in PFM are too weak to satisfactorily accommodate case stacking morphology, and we propose that (in some languages) the morphological property sets which define paradigm cells are structured rather than being the simple objects of the standard view. We show how this provides a comprehensive analysis of the complex case and number stacking facts and further, allows for a straightforward (although nontrivial) mapping between the morphology and the syntax as outlined in Sadler and Nordlinger (2004). © Walter de Gruyter.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Kayardild language; morphology; multiple case marking; Martuthunira language |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Elements |
Depositing User: | Elements |
Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2014 15:04 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2022 00:56 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/11816 |
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