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Title: | Verbal Agreement in Kanyen'keha |
Other Titles: | Verbal Agreement in Kanyen'keha: A catalogue of the transitive paradigm, and a proposal for subject-object agreement by one probe with multiple agree |
Authors: | Commanda, Kurtis |
Advisor: | Kucerova, Ivona |
Department: | Cognitive Science of Language |
Keywords: | direct-inverse agreement;verbal agreement;Mohawk;Indigenous language;multiple agree;subject-object agreement |
Publication Date: | 2022 |
Abstract: | This work catalogues the verbal agreement paradigm of Kanyen'keha in greater detail than has previously been done. The cataloguing includes the complete intransitive, transitive, and reflexive paradigms, and description of all argumental contrasts to which the verbal agreement is sensitive. It also describes in detail the contexts where feature sensitivity is blunted, and the patterns of syncretism in the verbal agreement. Based off of this descriptive work, this work evaluates the accuracy with which previous analyses treat verbal agreement in Kanyen'keha. Finding room for improvement in these analyses, this work proposes a new analysis of Kanyen'keha, which claims all verbal agreement in transitive contexts to be realized from one agreement probe, which enters into Multiple Agree with subjects and objects. This style of analysis allows for many aspects of the agreement to be accounted for, including person hierarchy effects, distribution of portmanteau morphology, and complex dependency between the multiple morphemes which comprise the agreement |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/27908 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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