[Lingtyp] Morphologically complex clitics?

Wed Mar 31 13:51:31 UTC 2021

Chapter 4 of Rebecca Paterson’s 2019 University of Oregon dissertation, Nominalization and predication in U̠t-Ma'in, describes the Associative Construction, in which an Associative Marker, e.g. ɘ̀ ‘assoc’, bears two noun classification morphemes, a prefix indexing the head N of the construction and an enclitic indexing the dependent N, e.g. rān t-ɘ̀=m wɘ́r ‘leaf ag6-assoc=c6m length’, ‘leaves of length’ (i.e. ‘long leaves’). This Associative Complex may encliticize to the preceding head noun (1b) or to the following dependent noun (2), and in a number of lexicalized combinations, she transcribed the combination of head N, Associative Complex, and dependent N as a single phonological word, as in (3)

(1)                a. wà-kɘ̄n               nɛ̄t           wā           wɘ̀          gágɘ́n

    c1-there        person  c1.def   c1.Rel  married

    [NHEAD[[=agHEAD-assoc=cMOD]AssocC             NMOD]AssocP]AssocCxn

b. nētá=j-  ̀ -u                                                                      íbò

   woman=ag7-assoc=c1                              Igbo.person

   ‘...a certain person who married an Igbo woman...’

     [NHEAD          [[agHEAD-assoc=cMOD-]AssocC  NMOD]AssocP]AssocCxn

(2)           wā=vástɛ̀         m̄-ʃɘ́ːs       [kɔ́ːr             [d-  ̀=u-tɘ̄tɘ̄rsɛ̀]]

c1.subj=end    c5-filling   basket          c5-assoc=c3-third

‘he finished filling the third basket’ (PS_IY_Ror 2013: 014)

(3)

rèmɘ̀tmɛ̀n       ‘stomachache’

rè=m-ɘ̀=t-mɛ̀n

pain=ag6b-assoc=c6-abdomen

‘pain of abdomen’

Best,
Spike

From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Tim Zingler <timzingler at unm.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 4:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Morphologically complex clitics?
Hi,

off the top of my head, I could only think of the connective in Fwe, about which Gunnink (2018: 167) says that it consists of a stem and a pronominal prefix. I'm not an expert on the language, but I think it fits the definition.

min-we            i-ó=                 mu-ánce
NP4-finger       PP4-CON         NP1-child
‘the fingers of the child’ (Gunnink 2018: 167)

The grammar can be downloaded here:
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8553074<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/biblio.ugent.be/publication/8553074__;!!C5qS4YX3!RZ2D5nMHeEk-bLRFK9_ZThoYDmutJl1OKU8EG8RofMwLn1yQui5-O5FNvMLrl3B9$>

This is a very interesting inquiry, by the way. Thanks for starting this discussion.

Best,

Tim
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Subject: [Lingtyp] Morphologically complex clitics?

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Dear all,

I am looking for examples of morphologically complex clitics — i.e., g-words that a) do not form their own p-words and b) consist of multiple morphemes. Below are some of the few examples I have found. In (1-2), it is an encliticized copula which carries person inflection. In (3), the verb complex consists of a finite verb, a converb, and an auxiliary, each their own g-word. Both the finite verb and the auxiliary are inflected for first person and therefore morphologically complex.

(1) Trió (Cariban)
    əmamina-nə=pəə=w-a-e
    play-INF=occ.with=1Sa-be-NPST.CERT
    'I am playing' (Meira 1999: 180)

(2) Ecuadorian Quechua
    paj  mana wasi-bi=t͡ʃu=ga-n
    3PRO NEG  house-LOC=NEG=be-3
    'S/he is not at home.' (Muysken 2010: 197)

(3) Nangikurrunggurr (Southern Daly)
    jawul karicinmade ŋebem=wuɹic=ŋiɹim                catma
    spear bent        1SG.S.bash.PRS=fix=1SG.S.sit.PRS straight
    'I'm sitting straightening this bent spear.' (Reid 2003: 114)

I am grateful for any further examples of such patterns, or references to literature on morphologically complex clitics.

Best,
Florian

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