{"id":12525,"date":"2019-09-09T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12525"},"modified":"2019-09-09T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:00:56","slug":"morphun-christopher-baron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/09\/09\/morphun-christopher-baron\/","title":{"rendered":"MorPhun  9\/11 - Christopher Baron (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Christopher Baron<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: <\/strong>Narcissistic allomorphy in Santiago Tz&#8217;utujil (joint work with Paulina Lyskawa &amp; Rodrigo Ranero)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> Wednesday, 9\/11 5pm - 6:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D831<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>The realization of imperfective aspect in Santiago Tz&#8217;utujil varies depending on the phi features of agreeing arguments: (i) 3sg abs triggers allomorphy; (ii) 1sg abs or erg triggers allomorphy, even (apparently) long-distance. The former is common in other K\u0092ichean Mayan languages&#8217; aspect morphology; however, the latter is unattested, including in other Tz\u0092utujil dialects. Santiago Tz&#8217;utujil is a head-marking ergative language, and (in)transitive verbs have the following template: asp-abs-(erg)-stem. Imperfective aspect has three allomorphs triggered by adjacent abs agreement: k-\/_1sg, n-\/_3sg, and nk- elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>(1) a. K-in-oq\u0092a\u0092.<br clear='none'\/>\nimpfv-1sg.abs-cry<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091I cry.\u0092<br clear='none'\/>\nb. Nk-at-oq\u0092a\u0092<br clear='none'\/>\nimpfv-2sg.abs-cry<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091You cry\u0092<br clear='none'\/>\nc. N-\u00d8-oq\u0092a\u0092<br clear='none'\/>\nimpfv-3sg.abs-cry<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091He\/she cries.\u0092<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, 1sg erg also triggers k-, even though there is a linearly intervening abs\u00971sg k- trumps all other allomorphs.<\/p>\n<p>(2) K-\u00d8-in-chop. (*n-\u00d8-in-chop)<br clear='none'\/>\nimpfv-3sg.abs-1sg.erg-touch.<br clear='none'\/>\n`I&#8217;m touching you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll discuss the data in more detail, and its potential implications for debates surrounding locality restrictions in allomorphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Christopher Baron Title: Narcissistic allomorphy in Santiago Tz&#8217;utujil (joint work with Paulina Lyskawa &amp; Rodrigo Ranero) Time: Wednesday, 9\/11 5pm - 6:30pm Location: 32-D831 Abstract: The realization of imperfective aspect in Santiago Tz&#8217;utujil varies depending on the phi features of agreeing arguments: (i) 3sg abs triggers allomorphy; (ii) 1sg abs or erg triggers allomorphy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12551,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions\/12551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}