{"id":731,"date":"2009-05-04T05:03:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T09:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=731"},"modified":"2009-05-04T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T14:59:21","slug":"linguistics-colloquium-58-sharon-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2009\/05\/04\/linguistics-colloquium-58-sharon-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics Colloquium - 5\/8 - Sharon Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Sharon Rose (UCSD)<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Tone Distribution and Affix Order in Moro<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Friday, May 8th, 2009, 3.30pm-5pm<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: <a href=\"http:\/\/whereis.mit.edu\/map-jpg?mapterms=32-15\"><b>32-155<\/b><\/a> ***Please note special place*** <BR><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThis talk investigates two separate, but related phenomena in the verbal<br clear='none'\/>\nmorphology of Moro: tone distribution and the order of object markers.<br clear='none'\/>\nMoro is a Kordofanian language spoken in Sudan; the research is part of<br clear='none'\/>\nthe Moro Language Project at UCSD.<\/p>\n<p>The interaction between tone and syllable weight has primarily focused on<br clear='none'\/>\nthe distribution of contour tones. In Moro verb roots, high tone is<br clear='none'\/>\ndistributed according to syllable size or weight. Heavy syllables<br clear='none'\/>\npreferentially bear high tone, whereas light onsetless syllables cannot<br clear='none'\/>\nbear high tone. I argue in favor of prominence constraints as in<br clear='none'\/>\nonset-sensitive stress systems (Gordon 2005) rather than<br clear='none'\/>\nextraprosodicity, an approach which fails to explain the onsetless<br clear='none'\/>\nsyllable?s participation in other prosodic processes. The domain for<br clear='none'\/>\ntonal restrictions in Moro is the macrostem rather than the word. Onsets<br clear='none'\/>\nfrom within the macrostem (progressive prefix v-) license high tone on<br clear='none'\/>\nthe initial root vowel, but those outside the macrostem do not. In<br clear='none'\/>\naddition, macrostem affixes that bear high tone cause deletion of root<br clear='none'\/>\nhigh tone and prevent the realization of tone-licensing prefixes. The<br clear='none'\/>\nmacrostem as a whole only allows a single high tone.<\/p>\n<p>The macrostem constituent is important not only for regulating tonal<br clear='none'\/>\nprocesses, but also affix order. Object markers in Moro attach as<br clear='none'\/>\nprefixes in imperfective aspect, but the same markers appear as suffixes<br clear='none'\/>\nin perfective aspect, outside the macrostem. Object markers longer than a<br clear='none'\/>\nsyllable or without high tone also appear as suffixes. I argue that these<br clear='none'\/>\ndata point to a templatic approach to the mobile affixes, in the sense of<br clear='none'\/>\nboth a position and prosodic requirements within the macrostem. This is<br clear='none'\/>\nfurther confirmed by double object markers. In perfective aspect, both<br clear='none'\/>\nobject markers appear as suffixes. The linear order of the two objects is<br clear='none'\/>\ndetermined not based on grammatical role, but by a hierarchy of<br clear='none'\/>\nperson\/number features (1 > 2 > 3 and pl > sg). In imperfective aspect,<br clear='none'\/>\nthe first object marker is realized as a prefix and the second as a<br clear='none'\/>\nsuffix; the discontinuous linear order follows the same person\/number<br clear='none'\/>\nhierarchy. The Moro data point to a templatic approach to linear ordering<br clear='none'\/>\n(Nordlinger 2008), and also provide support for approaches to morphology<br clear='none'\/>\nthat are independent of syntactic operations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Sharon Rose (UCSD) Title: Tone Distribution and Affix Order in Moro Time: Friday, May 8th, 2009, 3.30pm-5pm Place: 32-155 ***Please note special place*** This talk investigates two separate, but related phenomena in the verbal morphology of Moro: tone distribution and the order of object markers. Moro is a Kordofanian language spoken in Sudan; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}