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Revisiting Anaphoric Islands, Alice Carmichael Harris
Revisiting Anaphoric Islands, Alice Carmichael Harris
Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series
Postal (1969) discusses words as anaphoric islands. So-called OUTBOUND ANAPHORA was further discussed in a series of papers published in the 1970s through the early 1990s, but INBOUND ANAPHORA, such as Postal’s *himite (beside McCarthyite), has received less attention. It is shown here that a wide variety of words in Georgian are based on pronouns, including fully referential personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns, question words, quantifiers, and negative pronouns. Thus, the nonoccuring combinations of English are a language-particular problem.
Paradigm Regained: Deixis In Northern Wakashan, Emmon Bach
Paradigm Regained: Deixis In Northern Wakashan, Emmon Bach
Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series
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Morphology: Optimality Theory, John J. Mccarthy
Morphology: Optimality Theory, John J. Mccarthy
Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series
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Prosodic Morphology, John J. Mccarthy
Prosodic Morphology, John J. Mccarthy
Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series
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History In Support Of Synchrony, Alice Carmichael Harris
History In Support Of Synchrony, Alice Carmichael Harris
Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series
In a recent paper I argued that diachronic linguistics can explain certain typological phenomena that are otherwise problematic; in the present paper I want to discuss two other ways the study of historical data can contribute to synchronic linguistics. In §1 I argue that consideration of a prior stage of a language offers the kind of insight also provided by the examination of closely related languages. In §2 I show that diachronic data offer a way of testing hypotheses and claims.
External Modifiers In Georgian, Alice Carmichael Harris
External Modifiers In Georgian, Alice Carmichael Harris
Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series
This paper addresses the issue of stranded modifiers and null heads through two otherwise unrelated constructions in Georgian. In each construction, a word in the oblique form modifies part of the complex word following it. It is shown that null modifiers in Georgian have a form different from that of the modifiers in the constructions at issue, and the latter cannot have null heads. However, Baker’s (1988) approach is not easily compatible with the derivational morphology of these examples. I propose an analysis in terms of Beard (1991), which addresses other bracketing paradoxes by permitting “the semantic features of an …