LIN 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Unaccusative Verb, Morphophonology, Semantics
2 Mar 2020
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Some tests for unergative vs unaccusative in spoken language: Classifier handshapes participate in classifier constructions (aka classifier predicates) that: Use space in a highly iconic way. Can use both hands simultaneously in a meaningful way (cf. compounds) Classifier constructions highlight the need to allow for iconic mappings between gradient form representations and gradient meaning representations in our theories of grammar. Violations of morphophonological constraints by classifier constructions raise various architectural issues as well. Sign language shows a tendency for simultaneity both in inflectional and derivational morphology, but sequential processes are also attested. We see some of the same morphological processes/phenomena in sl as in spoken language: agreement, aspect, pluralization, noun-verb alternations, compounding, classifiers, allomorphy, phonological constraints, etc. The reasonable view ( inverted y model + extra assumptions): Syntax creates non-linearized hierarchical structures of abstract objects, like roots and features. Operations happening in the syntax proper ( narrow syntax )
