{"id":16244,"date":"2024-04-15T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16244"},"modified":"2024-04-15T00:31:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T04:31:57","slug":"morphun-4-18-juan-cancel-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/04\/15\/morphun-4-18-juan-cancel-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MorPhun 4\/18 - Juan Cancel (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker: <\/strong> Juan Cancel (MIT)

\nTitle: <\/strong>Unexpected Syncretisms: A Look at the Nganasan Case and Subjective Agreement Paradigms

\nTime: <\/strong>Thursday, April 18th, 5pm - 6pm

\nLocation: <\/strong>32-D769

\n

\nAbstract: <\/strong>Nganasan (Szever\u00e9nyi, V\u00e1rnai, and B. B. Wagner-Nagy 2002, B. Wagner-Nagy 2018) seems to have a near-exact, cross-paradigmatic syncretism between the NOM exponents of the Case Paradigm and 3rd Person exponents of the Subjective Agreement (The relevant syncretic exponents are highlighted):<\/p>\n

Nganasan (Reduced) Case Paradigm
\n(B. Wagner-Nagy 2018, pg.191-193)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0NOM\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0ACC\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0GEN\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0SG\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 ?<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0(-m)<\/td>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 ?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0DU\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0 -K?j<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0*-Ki<\/td>\n\u00a0*-Ki<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0PL<\/td>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 -?<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 -j<\/td>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 -?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Nganasan Subjective Agreement Paradigm:
\n(B. Wagner-Nagy 2018, pg.229)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 <\/td>\n\u00a01st\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a02nd\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0 3rd\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0SG\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0-m<\/td>\n\u00a0 \u00a0-?<\/td>\n\u00a0 \u00a0?<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0DU\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0-mi<\/td>\n\u00a0 -ri<\/td>\n\u00a0 -g?j<\/strong>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0PL<\/td>\n-mU?<\/td>\n-rU?<\/td>\n\u00a0 -?<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

*In the grammar, ACC.DU and GEN.DU have a “ghost” consonant at the end.<\/p>\n

I will argue for the following three things:<\/p>\n

1) NOM.DU \/-K?j\/ and 3rd.DU \/-g?j\/ are in fact the same exponent, meaning that we can argue that NUM is the morphosyntactic feature behind the syncretism and that there is no contextual allomorphy (Bonet & Harbour 2012) between nominal and verbal stems in the CONTEXT of NOM and 3SG.<\/p>\n

2) The apparent syncretism between NOM.SG, ACC.SG and GEN.SG \/-?\/ is superficial in nature since phonological phenomena such as Syllabic Gradation and Epenthesis clearly distinguish word-paradigms involving NOM.SG \/-?\/ from word-paradigms involving ACC.SG and GEN.SG \/-?\/.<\/p>\n

3) The apparent syncretism between NOM.PL and GEN.PL \/-?\/ is also superficial for similar reasons, but in light of the typology of epenthesis and vowel harmony (Finley 2008), GEN.PL \/-?\/ is better understood as being \/-V?\/, where V is a vowel that participates in vowel harmony.<\/p>\n

Finally, one can see similar syncretisms in the Case and Subjective Agreement Paradigms of Tundra Nenets (Nikolaeva 2014, pg. 57, 59, 61, 78) and Forest Enets (Siegl 2013, pg. 121-124), suggesting that this cross-paradigmatic syncretism is more widespread in the Samoyedic language family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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