{"id":18220,"date":"2026-09-09T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2026\/09\/07\/morphun-9-10-christopher-legerme-mit-2\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T23:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:57:31","slug":"morphun-9-10-christopher-legerme-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/09\/09\/morphun-9-10-christopher-legerme-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MorPhun 9\/10 - Christopher Legerme (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Christopher Legerme (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Some Aspects of Bantu Morphology, featuring Leland Paul Kusmer (2019)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, September 10th, 5pm - 6pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D769<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Discussion on verbal morphology in Bantu, focusing on the conjoint\/disjoint alternation, where a verb&#8217;s surface realization depends on its syntactic, information-structural, or prosodic relation to what follows it. I\u0092ll walk through some of the core Bantu facts and compare them with similar patterns in the French Creole languages I work on. I\u0092ll then present Kusmer\u0092s (2019) analysis of the conjoint\/disjoint alternation in Tshiven?a. Unlike more familiar Bantu systems, the two morphological variants of a verb are not straightforwardly in complementary distribution in this language: some linguistic environments permit either form. The paper reports results from an experiment testing speakers\u0092 choices across different syntactic contexts. Kusmer suggests that the variation in Tshiven?a may track prosodic phrasing. I\u0092ll use these results as a starting point for further discussion of how we should understand the relationship between prosody and morphological exponence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Christopher Legerme (MIT) Title: Some Aspects of Bantu Morphology, featuring Leland Paul Kusmer (2019) Time: Thursday, September 10th, 5pm - 6pm Location: 32-D769 Abstract: Discussion on verbal morphology in Bantu, focusing on the conjoint\/disjoint alternation, where a verb&#8217;s surface realization depends on its syntactic, information-structural, or prosodic relation to what follows it. I\u0092ll walk [&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-18220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220","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=18220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18223,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions\/18223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}