Morphological analysis of alienability contrast in Nuer: an atypical typical case

IF 0.7 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1515/tlr-2023-2002
Irina Monich
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Abstract This article presents evidence that alienable versus inalienable possession is distinguished in the morphology of Nuer, a West Nilotic language. Although the distinction in possession type is subtle due to Nuer morphology being mostly non-segmental and is additionally obfuscated by numerous exceptions, we show that Nuer conforms to the well-established typological observation that alienable possessive constructions involve more structural complexity than inalienable ones. We argue that alienable possession is marked on the possessum with a non-segmental suffix owing to the presence of PossP structural layer; in contrast, inalienable possession involves a simple juxtaposition of the possessum and the possessor, which are in a head-complement configuration. These structural assumptions account for several morphological patterns where possessed nouns behave differently based on possession type. We also suggest that the exceptional patterns can be dealt with under a presumption that another non-segmental morpheme – the linker – intervenes between the possessum and the possessor when one of them is larger than a monosyllable.
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努尔异常可比性对比的形态学分析:一例非典型典型病例
摘要本文证明,在西尼罗语诺尔语的形态上,可转让占有与不可剥夺占有是有区别的。尽管占有类型的区别是微妙的,因为努尔形态大多是非分段的,并且还被许多例外所混淆,但我们表明努尔符合公认的类型学观察,即可转让的占有结构比不可转让的结构更具结构复杂性。我们认为,由于PossP结构层的存在,可转让占有在posssum上用非分段后缀标记;相反,不可剥夺的占有包括占有人和占有人的简单并置,它们处于头部互补配置中。这些结构假设解释了几种形态模式,即占有名词根据占有类型表现不同。我们还建议,可以在假设另一个非节段词素——连接词——介于拥有者和拥有者之间的情况下处理例外模式,当其中一个词素大于单音节词素时。
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