{"id":14176,"date":"2021-05-17T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2021\/05\/10\/morphun-5-12-boer-fu-mit-and-danfeng-wu-mit-2\/"},"modified":"2021-05-16T21:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T01:17:28","slug":"morphun-5-12-boer-fu-mit-and-danfeng-wu-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2021\/05\/17\/morphun-5-12-boer-fu-mit-and-danfeng-wu-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MorPhun 5\/19 - Boer Fu (MIT) and Danfeng Wu (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Boer Fu (MIT) and Danfeng Wu (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Numeral Allomorphy in Mandarin Chinese and A Synthetic Side of the Language<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, May 19th, 5pm - 6:30pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In Mandarin Chinese, the numerals 1 and 2 display\u00a0interesting allomorphy patterns between two distinct forms. We\u00a0discuss two puzzles involving single-digit and multi-digit\u00a0cardinals, their forms when immediately followed by a classifier,\u00a0as well as their ordinal forms. We argue that we need a\u00a0morphological rule that refers to both linear order and structural\u00a0\/ prosodic relations. Furthermore, the different morphological\u00a0patterns of numbers below 100 vs. numbers above 100 suggest that\u00a0Mandarin, despite lacking a synthetic vs. analytic distinction on\u00a0the surface, in fact makes such a distinction in ways parallel to\u00a0English. Like English, Mandarin numbers under 100 are synthetic\u00a0(parallel to English fif+teen and fif+ty), while bases of hundreds\u00a0and above are analytic (parallel to English five#hundred). We\u00a0further observe a monotonic trend across languages, where lower\u00a0number bases tend to be irregular (e.g. suppletive and\u00a0readjusted), and higher number bases tend to be regular (e.g.\u00a0analytic). This observation, if real, is interesting because it\u00a0can be described as *ABA, but cannot be straightforwardly\u00a0explained by the containment analysis, the traditional analysis of\u00a0*ABA in the literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Boer Fu (MIT) and Danfeng Wu (MIT) Title: Numeral Allomorphy in Mandarin Chinese and A Synthetic Side of the Language Time: Wednesday, May 19th, 5pm - 6:30pm Abstract: In Mandarin Chinese, the numerals 1 and 2 display\u00a0interesting allomorphy patterns between two distinct forms. We\u00a0discuss two puzzles involving single-digit and multi-digit\u00a0cardinals, their forms when immediately [&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-14176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176","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=14176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14182,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176\/revisions\/14182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}