{"id":11980,"date":"2019-03-18T06:10:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11980"},"modified":"2019-03-17T10:37:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T14:37:34","slug":"morphun-3-18-colin-davis-on-azeri-suppletion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/03\/18\/morphun-3-18-colin-davis-on-azeri-suppletion\/","title":{"rendered":"MorPhun 3\/18: Colin Davis on Azeri suppletion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Speakers: <\/strong>Colin Davis<\/a> (MIT)
Title:<\/strong> Mismatched suppletion in Azeri as morphology\/phonology competition
Time:<\/strong> Monday, March 18th, 5-6:30pm
Location:<\/strong> 32-D831<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract: <\/strong>(longer PDF version available at\u00a0http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/colin-morphun<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this paper, I examine a puzzle about suppletion in the northern dialect of Azeri\/Azerbaijani (Turkic). I focus on suppletion of the perfect (PRF) \/ evidential (EVID) morpheme, whose default form is -mi?<\/em>. My fieldwork work has found, in agreement with Oztopcu (2003), that this morpheme has an allomorph -Ib<\/em> that is typically only used with 2nd and 3rd person subjects:
(1)    a.  o      gat?-m??\/?b                                     
             1SG run-PRF-3SG                                            
             \u0092He\/she\/it has run\u0092        

        b.  biz   d?al-mi?\/*ib-ij   
             1PL come-PRF-1PL                              
             \u0091We have come\u0092  

However, I have found that in contexts where multiple adjacent instances of -mi? <\/em>would surface, one of those instances is realized as -Ib<\/em>, even when the subject is 1st person:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2)    a.  biz  gat?-?b-m??-1?                                                   1PL run-PRF-EVID-1PL                                      
            \u0092Apparently we had run\u0092                                       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

         b.  man je-maj       je-ib-mi?-am  
              1SG eat-NMLZ eat-EVID-PRF-1SG  
             \u0091Apparently I ate food\u0092  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since -Ib<\/em> suppletion typically requires a 2nd\/3rd person subject, we would have expected the 1st person subjects in (2) to make -Ib<\/em> unavailable. Why did -Ib <\/em>suppletion in (2) succeed? I argue that this over-application of suppletion in (2) occurs due to a phonological constraint against forms with adjacent identical morphemes (Menn & MacWhinney 1984, Plag 1998, Yip 1998, a.o.). This phonologically-forced morphological mismatch provides new evidence that morpheme insertion interacts and competes with phonological constraints (Wolf 2008, 2009, Pertsova 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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