Fieldwork and Language Documentation

Mobile object markers in Moro: The role of tone

Peter Jenks

Sharon Rose

2015

Object markers alternate between a prefix and a suffix position in the Thetogovela dialect of Moro, an underdocumented Kordofanian language of Sudan. Although the alternation appears to depend on the morphosyntactic category of verb forms, we show that it actually follows from the tonal properties of these verb forms. Verb stems that are usually marked with a default, phonologically predictable leftmost high tone select prefix object markers. The high-toned prefix object marker appears inside the stem, and its high tone serves as the default tone of the stem, obviating the need for...

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Cavite Chabacano Philippine Creole Spanish: Description and Typology

Marilola Perez

2015

Advisor: Lev Michael

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Wichita grammar: A generative semantic sketch

David Rood

1969

Advisor: Wallace Chafe

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Study of the Chevak dialect of central Yup'ik Eskimo

Anthony C. Woodbury

1981

Advisor: Mary R. Haas

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Semantic structures in English and Atsugewi

Leonard Talmy

1972

Advisor: William S.-Y. Wang

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A grammatical sketch of Eastern Kayah (Red Karen)

David Solnit

1986

Advisor: James Matisoff

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A grammar of Delaware: Semantics, morpho-syntax, lexicon, phonology

Bruce Pearson

1972

Advisor: Mary R. Haas

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Cyclicity and Connectivity in Nez Perce Relative Clauses

Amy Rose Deal

2016

This article studies two aspects of movement in relative clauses, focusing on evidence from Nez Perce. First, I argue that relativization involves cyclic Ā-movement, even in monoclausal relatives: the relative operator moves to Spec,CP via an intermediate position in an Ā outer specifier of TP. The core arguments draw on word order, complementizer choice, and a pattern of case attraction for relative pronouns.

Ā cyclicity of this type suggests that the TP sister of relative C constitutes a phase—a result whose implications extend to an ill-understood corner of the English that-trace...