2004/10/01 by Norvin W. Richards · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Agreement #Artificial intelligence #Computer science #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Multilingual Education and Policy #Natural language processing #Philosophy #Psychology #Syntactic structure #Syntax #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation #Verb
paper · doi:10.1086/429206
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Wampanoag, like a number of other Algonquian languages, makes a distinction between Conjunct and Independent orders of verbal morphology. I investigate the syntactic factors conditioning the choice between orders and conclude that Conjunct verbs are structurally lower than Independent verbs, as they are used in syntactic contexts in which verb‐movement to high structural positions is often prevented cross‐linguistically. Wampanoag is shown to exhibit a form of anti‐agreement; this adds considerable complexity to the distribution of Conjunct and Independent, since Wampanoag’s agreement system is itself quite complex. Phillips’s (1998) approach to anti‐agreement as a ban on certain kinds of verb‐movement is supported.