- Titel
- Person and number agreement in Dumi
- Untertitel
- Rezension
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-945329
- Quellenangabe
- Linguistics
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Jahrgang: 44
Heft: 5
Seiten: 1011-1057
ISSN: 0024-3949
E-ISSN: 1613-396X - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2006
- Abstract (EN)
- Aissen (1999, 2003) argues that prominence hierarchy e¤ects in morphosyntax are governed by fixed rankings of markedness constraints related to the hierarchies themselves by harmonic alignment (Prince and Smolensky 1993). In this article, I analyze the e¤ects of prominence hierarchies on agreement in Dumi, an endangered Kiranti language spoken in Eastern Nepal (van Driem 1993), and argue that the empirical facts can be captured best if hierarchy e¤ects follow from freely rankable binary preference and markedness constraints, not from the fixed ranking of markedness constraints. The analysis further reveals the relevance of number hierarchies for agreement, which are largely neglected in the literature. Thus Dumi resorts to the hierarchy plural > dual > singular that competes with the parallel e¤ects of the more standard person hierarchy (1st > 2nd > 3rd person) on agreement control and also triggers an as yet undocumented number inverse marking, which indicates if one argument of a verb is momore prominent for number than the other, but less prominent for person.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Link zur Erstveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1515/LING.2006.033 - Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Dumi intransitive verb forms,the theoretical framework
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 400
- Verlag
- de Gruyter, Berlin
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-945329
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 25.11.2024
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Deutsch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
CC BY 4.0