Restitutive re 1 reprefixation creates the restitutive of the verb, not the repetitive. Distributed morphology claims that all derivation of complex objects is syntactic. Cognate objects as thematic objects canadian journal of. Ab this chapter takes a purely syntactic approach to compounding, within the framework of distributed morphology dm, treating compounding as a species of syntactic incorporation. Furthermore, it is argued that the two types of cos pattern with non cognate nominals with the same function. Hyponymous objects and late insertion sciencedirect. Introduction to distributed morphology heidi harley, university of arizona abralin, march 1022, 2003 week 1. Jul 26, 20 one major argument for early root insertion is the supposed universal ban on root suppletion. In particular, distributed morphology attempts to make precise the claim that all derivation of complex objects is. Cognate arguments and the transitivity requirement in the. The central claim of distributed morphology is that there is no divide between the construction of words and sentences. Traditionally, dictionaries consider a verb as denominal when its cognate nominal form is older than the verbal one in language records.
The goal of this dissertation is to study a specific type of complex wordformation, namely compounding, and its relation to the morphology syntax interface, with the. In generative linguistics, distributed morphology is a theoretical framework introduced in 1993 by morris halle and alec marantz. The term refers to the general aspects of biological form and arrangement of the parts of a plant or an animal. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Essays that offer original theoretical contributions in distributed morphology and highlight the lasting influence of morris halle, a founder of the field.
O u what 7 says is that the feature feminine, a terminal node, has two exponents, with a preference relation, and both exponents constitute the input to the phonology they are inserted at the same time. Complex wordformation and the morphologysyntax interface. Voice morphology in japanese argument structures, ms. The walls in the house were green long before they purchased it. A nondistributed, purely syntactic theory of morphology. Morphology, in linguistics, study of the internal construction of words. Cognate objects in modern and biblical hebrew request pdf. Cognate objects in constructions in which a typically intransitive verb combines. This current study on the verb, is the first in the domain of morphology. Jun 01, 2015 there is an interface between morphology and syntax the theory of distributed morphology proposes an architecture of grammar in which a single genarative system is responsible for both word structure and phrase structure. Pdf english cognate object constructions and their transitivity. The syntaxsemantics interface in distributed morphology.
Distributed morphology, which integrates the morphological with the. English cognate object constructions and related phenomena. The analysis here assumes the tenets of distributed morphology and the minimalist program, but attempts to maintain a. The nature of cognate objects a syntactic approach. Noun phrases that name events alec marantz departments of psychology and linguistics, nyu. The rest of the section is dedicated to providing a clear theoretic account of how doggo may be accounted for with a general, generative syntax framework. Processing morphology 1 basic terminology morphology study of internal structure of words. It has very few intransitive verbs, and where some verbs would be intransitive in most other languages, nen.
It is also a continuation of decadeslong research on cognate objects in both traditional and generative linguistics. This paper focuses on weak instrumental nominals in russian and it shows their similarities, both from a semantic and a syntactic point of view, with bare predicates in romance languages, namely catalan. It is situated between the speech communities of nambu and idi nen has unusual lexicalization patterns in its verbs. As i will show, the foundational assumptions of distributed morphology are also.
The family of english cognate object constructions. Whats the relationship between syntax, morphology broadly construed and argument. Morphology and functional structure there is at the very least an abstract level of morphology, perhaps related to the distinctions that the surface morphology can make. The present paper aims at discussing selected syntactic aspects of cognate objects in european portuguese, along the lines of distributed morphology haugen, 2009. This article examines and compares the morphological structure of the perfect verb form in two closely related bantu languages. Morphology, in biology, the study of the size, shape, and structure of animals, plants, and microorganisms and of the relationships of their constituent parts. Contrary to recent work in distributed morphology adopting early root insertion. Distributed morphology dm is a theory of the architecture of grammar first proposed in the early 1990s at mit by morris halle, alec marantz and their students and colleagues including eulalia bonet, rolf noyer, jim harris, heidi harley, andrea calabrese, david embick and others. Comparative morphological analysis of the perfect form in. Asu electronic theses and dissertations asu digital. For example, in the sentence he slept a troubled sleep, sleep is the cognate object of the verb slept. The object of verbs like help and an apparent violation of.
By default, this search box looks for content in which any of the supplied terms match. On the frequency of occurrence of cognate object constructions in presentday british english. A distributed morphology account of the syntax of the algonquian verb julie brittain memorial university 1. Introduction this paper seeks to recast in theoretical terms a number of important generalizations described in the traditional literature of algonquian linguistics e. Distributed morphology and the syntaxmorphology interface david embick and rolf noyer university of pennsylvania draft of october 25, 2004 to appear in g.
Roots and the derivation linguistic inquiry mit press. Distributed morphology and the syntaxmorphology interface. The syntax morphology interface draft of october 25, 2004 the theory of distributed morphology proposes an architecture of grammar in which a single generative system is responsible both for word structure and phrase structure. This collection offers a snapshot of current research in distributed morphology, highlighting the lasting influence of morris halle, a pioneer in generative linguistics. Section 4 resolves the hyponymous object problem by utilizing the distributed morphology notion of late insertion. Languages vary widely in the degree to which words can be analyzed into word elements, or morphemes q. Morphology linguistics, the study of the structure and content of word forms mathematical morphology, a theoretical model based on lattice theory, used for digital image processing river morphology, the field of science dealing with changes of river platform.
This article is concerned with cognate objects cos in russian, of which there are shown to be two types. These nominal expressions are propertydenoting expressions that show nonunique reference. Morphological aspect and the function and distribution of cognate objects across languages chapter february 2010 with 44 reads how we measure reads. In doing so we present an illustration of the theory of distributed morphology and the postsyntactic rules that obscure a fairly regular and wellstructured syntactically generated auxiliary complex.
According to this analysis, german allows for null nominative subjects only if they are derived from an underlying cognate object. The semantic function of such objects parallels that of classificatory adjectives in the nominal domain, and that of pseudoincorporated nominals in the verbal domain. This paper provides a survey of the cognate object construction coc. On the interpretations of english cognate object constructions yoshitomo oi graduate school of osaka university the purpose of this presentation is to clarify the aspectual status of cognate object. In distributed morphology, all information has to be stored in the lexical entry of a root. View distributed morphology research papers on academia.
Morphological aspect and the function and distribution of. Intransitive verbs are nominalized by the derivational morpheme na suffixed to the verb root with high tone. Proceedings of the 17th international conference on headdriven phrase structure grammar. The basic principle of distributed morphology is that there is a single generative engine for the formation of both complex words and complex phrases. Noncanonical objects are thus identified as event kindclassifying elements. Null and cognate objects and changes in intransitivity jstor. The distributed morphology model dm, formally introduced by halle and marantz 1993, presents an alternative analysis for the treatment of word formation, in which rules are not required as generative mechanisms of the lexicon. In the cognate object construction coc a typically intransitive verb combines with a. Finally, we give a compositional semantics for the complex event. The minimalist syntax of idioms, authorwill nediger, year2017. Distributed morphology heidi harley and rolf noyer, university of pennsylvania appeared in glot 4. Second, the object is morphologically or semantically related to the verb itself. Introduction to distributed morphology heidi harley. Goldberg linguistics department mc 168, university of illinois, 4088 foreign languages building.
The first analytical study on the language was on the segmental phonology by davis 1992. Morphosyntactic complexity in the translation of the. In linguistics, a cognate object or cognate accusative is a verbs object that is etymologically related to the verb. Pdf english cognate object constructions and their. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Nen or nen zi, nenium, wekamara is a yam language spoken in the bimadbn village in the western province of papua new guinea, with 250 speakers as of a 2002 sil survey. Not being a native speaker, i hope to apply purely scientific approaches. As can be seen from the above examples, cos are noun phrases containing a noun which is morphologically related to the verb. Marantz 1997 is founded on the premise that the syntax is the only computational component of the grammar. The cognate object can be distinguished as a nominal rather than a verb root by its tone.
The cognate accusative object in arabic is a syntactic constituent whose name suggests it is not restricted to any other subsequent constituent in the sentence, and is considered the real object of the subject of the verb babity, 2004. A distributed morphology analysis of modal passive adjectives. Distributed morphology but is known to be necessary for numerous phenomena, phrasal idioms most obviously e. Request pdf morphological aspect and the function and distribution of cognate objects across languages we identify different functions of cognate objects crosslinguistically, and analyse. By the rules of verb reduplication, a verb root would have mid.
The goal of this dissertation is to study a specific type of complex wordformation, namely compounding, and its relation to the morphology syntax interface, with the ultimate aim of gaining a better understanding of the phenomenon. Distributed morphology see halle and marantz 1993, embick and marantz 2008. Such objects denote properties, and restrict, rather than saturate, predicates. Recent work on argument structure has shown that there must be a synchronic.
Training and interpretation of the denominal verbs of the. More specifically, the verb is one that is ordinarily intransitive lacking any object, and the cognate object is simply the verbs noun form. Since hailing is a weatherconditioned movement of little icy hailstones, the verb hail licences a directional pp as in 3c. Compounding in distributed morphology university of arizona. In 1 and 2 below, i give some examples of cognate objects cos in familiar languages such as english and french these languages are quite wellstudied in terms of their cognate object. This paper examines cognate object co constructions such as those in 1.
The subjects of impersonal passives in german and spanish. Morphology approaches, and they redefine conflation as follows. Proceedings of the 17th international conference on head. Much research focuses on how this premise is relevant to the syntax morphology interface in dm. Dictionaries consider a verb as denominal when its cognate nominal form is older than the verbal one in language records. Different aspects of compounding are explored in this work, of which the main questions addressed in each. Lexical semantics, syntax, and event structure edited by malka rappaport hovav, edit doron, and ivy sichel. Ways of delimiting events in morphology and syntax. Weak referentiality and russian instrumental nominals.
Pdf this paper deals with the english cognate object constructions in the. Starting with the transitivity requirement hypothesis the direct object counterpart of extended projection p rinciple epp, we examine the development of cognate objects and cognate subjects in english. By applying the distributed morphology notion of late insertion i propose an analysis wherein non cognate nominal material can be inserted into the tail of a. Newest distributedmorphology questions linguistics stack. Noncanonical objects as event kindclassifying elements. We extend the analysis proposed for predicate nominals to other instrumental nominals in russian. Distributed morphology see halle and marantz 1993, embick and marantz 2008, embick and. Thus, there are two ways of treating what is called denominal verb, regarding the relation between the noun and the verb.
It could be that what is traditionally referred to as ai morphology does not actually indicate intransitivity. Whats the relationship between morphology broadly construed and argument. Whats the relationship between syntax, morphology broadly construed and argument structure. Morphological aspect and the function and distribution of cognate objects across languages, pp. The central question which is raised by such constructions regards the status of the co with respect to both its syntax and its semantics. The syntax morphology interface draft of december 9, 2005 the theory of distributed morphology proposes an architecture of grammar in which a single generative system is responsible both for word structure and phrase structure. Only one type of co exhibits argument properties, while the other type is shown to pattern with predicative nominals. On cognate objects in sason arabic scholarlycommons.
Pdf a distributed morphology analysis of modal passive. On the selection of clausal complements in a minimalist. Distributed morphology has been justly criticized for its overly complicated architecture and its reliance on a large set of theoretical devices e. Abstract we provide an analysis of the morphology of present indicative auxiliary verbs in zamudio basque. Abstrakt the present paper aims at discussing selected syntactic aspects of cognate objects in european portuguese, along the lines of distributed morphology haugen, 2009. Cognate objects in modern and biblical hebrew springerlink. In english there are numerous examples, such as replacement, which is composed of re, place, and ment, and. Outline 1 introduction 2 the syntactic status of cognate objects 3 the interpretation of cognate objects 4 analysis. Working within the framework of distributed morphology, it demonstrates that the exponents of the two morphemes involved in the formation of the perfectthe perfect suffix and the final vowel fvare assigned by rules that are essentially. Such objects challenge the idea that an incorporated nominal is basegenerated in object position, because in surface syntax that position is filled with non cognate nominal material.
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