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Kayardild Morphology and Syntax (Hardcover)
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Kayardild Morphology and Syntax (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages
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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.
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