Multiple Exponence on Archi Pronouns

Stem alternations and multiple exponence

In a canonical inflectional paradigm, inflectional affixes mark distinctions in morphosyntactic value, while the lexical stem remains invariant. But stems are known to alternate too, constituting a system of inflectional marking operating according to parameters which typically differ from those of the affixal system, and so represent a distinct object of inquiry. Cross-linguistically, we still...

Extended exponence by enrichment: Argument encoding in German, Archi, and Timucua

This paper is concerned with a principled approach to cases of extended (or multiple) exponence, as postulated in Matthews (1972, 82) for Greek verb inflection (perfect forms in particular), and in Matthews (1974, 149) for English verb inflection (among other phenomena). Extended exponence characterizes those cases of morphological realization where a single morpho-syntactic property seems to b...

Periphrasis as syntactic exponence

Constraints on Donkey Pronouns

This paper reports on an experimental study of donkey pronouns, pronouns (e.g. it) whose meaning covaries with that of a non-pronominal noun phrase (e.g. a donkey) even though they are not in a structural relationship that is suitable for quantifier-variable binding. We investigate three constraints, (i) the preference for the presence of an overt NP antecedent that is not part of another word,...

Syntactic Expression as Morphological Exponence

“... an inflected word’s association with its morphosyntactic feature specifications is logically prior to the spelling out of its inflectional markings, since it is this very association that determines the sequence of operations by which those markings are introduced; the realizational approach thus entails a rejection of the assumption that a word’s morphosyntactic feature content is built c...