{"id":6842,"date":"2015-02-02T05:01:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6842"},"modified":"2015-02-01T20:56:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T00:56:14","slug":"colloquium-26-kristine-yu-umass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/02\/02\/colloquium-26-kristine-yu-umass\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 2\/6 - Kristine Yu (UMass)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krisyu.org\/\">Kristine Yu<\/a> (UMass)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Tonal marking of absolutive case in Samoan<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Friday, January 6th<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 3:30-5:00p<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-141<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis paper argues that the ergative-marking Austronesian language<br clear='none'\/>\nSamoan has a high boundary tone that occurs on the last mora of the<br clear='none'\/>\nword preceding an absolutive argument, and that the source of this<br clear='none'\/>\ntone is inflectional morphology and not lexical representations,<br clear='none'\/>\npragmatics, syntax, semantics, or phonology. In short, the claim is<br clear='none'\/>\nthat Samoan has an absolutive high boundary tone case morpheme. This<br clear='none'\/>\nclaim is surprising for two reasons. First, Samoan is not a tone<br clear='none'\/>\nlanguage. Second, regardless of the source of the absolutive tone,<br clear='none'\/>\npositing it: (1) introduces a boundary paradox since it groups an<br clear='none'\/>\nabsolutive case head with the prosodic constituent preceding the<br clear='none'\/>\nabsolutive argument, and (2) implies that the presence of an<br clear='none'\/>\nabsolutive induces a new phonological constituent.  Nevertheless, I<br clear='none'\/>\nshow that inflectional morphology must be the source of the absolutive<br clear='none'\/>\nhigh tone based on a converging body of evidence from: (1) the<br clear='none'\/>\ndistribution of the rarely discussed ia particle that optionally<br clear='none'\/>\nprecedes absolutive arguments and (2) the phonetic and phonological<br clear='none'\/>\nanalysis of intonational patterns in the spoken utterances of a<br clear='none'\/>\nsystematically varied set of syntactic structures. I also address the<br clear='none'\/>\npuzzles that the presence of an absolutive tonal case morpheme in<br clear='none'\/>\nSamoan raises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Kristine Yu (UMass) Title: Tonal marking of absolutive case in Samoan Date: Friday, January 6th Time: 3:30-5:00p Place: 32-141 This paper argues that the ergative-marking Austronesian language Samoan has a high boundary tone that occurs on the last mora of the word preceding an absolutive argument, and that the source of this tone is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6844,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions\/6844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}