[Lingtyp] Verbal person-number indexing reconstructed for a family/deeper subfamily?

Wed Jun 20 08:01:06 UTC 2018

I would also recommend Ruth Wester's work on Awyu-Dumut languages.

Best
Matt

Matthew J Carroll
Newton International Fellow
Surrey Morphology Group
www.matthewjcarroll.com

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 8:44 AM Guillaume Jacques <rgyalrongskad at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Ilja,
>
> In Northern America, person indexation is reconstructable for many
> language families.
>
> For Algonquian, Bloomfield, Goddard and a few other scholars have
> establiushed a very rigorous system of reconstruction. A very useful and up
> to date introduction is found in Will Oxford's dissertation:
>
> https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~oxfordwr/papers/Oxford_William_201406_PhD_thesis.pdf
>
> If you are also interested in portmanteau morphemes indexing both subject
> and object, this chapter could also be useful:
>
> Jacques, Guillaume & Anton Antonov. 2018. The direction(s) of analogical
> change in direct/inverse systems. In Fernando Zúñiga &
> Sonia Cristofaro (eds.), Typological hierarchies in synchrony and
> diachrony, 259–289. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
>
> https://www.academia.edu/6776948/The_direction_s_of_analogical_change_in_direct_inverse_systems
>
> For Siouan, Bob Rankin and John Koontz in particular have made important
> contributions to the reconstruction of person indexation markers, most of
> it is however spread over various unpublished paper (see also the
> Comparative Siouan Dictionary, http://csd.clld.org/). Among the most
> recent contributions on the reconstruction of person indexation in Siouan,
> see (in the same issue of IJAL as Jorge Labrada's article on Saliban
> mentioned above):
>
> Jacques, Guillaume. 2016. On the directionality of analogy in a Dhegiha
> paradigm. International Journal of American Linguistics 8(2):239–248.
>
> https://www.academia.edu/12796953/On_the_directionality_of_analogy_in_a_Dhegiha_paradigm
>
> Additionally, the following unpublished paper could also be useful at
> least for its reference list (I can provide PDF of articles on demand):
> https://www.academia.edu/3758247/Siouan_irregular_inflections
>
> On the other side of the Pacific, in the Sino-Tibetan/Trans-Himalayan
> family, there is, as mentioned by Randy above, a debate concerning the
> antiquity of the indexation system. It is no secret that my views are
> radically opposed to those of Randy, and expressed in particular in the
> following articles:
>
> Jacques, Guillaume. 2012. Agreement morphology: the case of Rgyalrongic
> and Kiranti. Language and Linguistics 13(1). 83–116.
>
> https://www.academia.edu/1526166/Agreement_morphology_the_case_of_Rgyalrongic_and_Kiranti
>
> Jacques, Guillaume. 2016. Le sino-tibétain: polysynthétique ou isolant?
> Faits de langues 47(1). 61–74.
>
> https://www.academia.edu/30377206/Le_sino-tib%C3%A9tain_polysynth%C3%A9tique_ou_isolant
>
> See also a series of recent articles by Scott DeLancey including:
> DeLancey, Scott 2013. The history of postverbal agreement in Kuki-Chin.
> Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 6:1-17
>
> https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/9718/5/DeLancey_HistoryPostverbal2013.pdf
>
> DeLancey, Scott   2014 Second person verb forms in Tibeto-Burman.
> Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37 (1), 3-33
>
> https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/9/82/files/2013/07/DeLanceyfullpaper.pdf
>
> DeLancey, Scott   2015 The historical dynamics of morphological
> complexity in Trans-Himalayan. Linguistic Discovery13 (2): 37–56.
>
> https://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/1/document/1016
>
> More specifically on Tangut, Randy LaPolla, who relies on second- or
> third-hand sources for his information, is not a reliable source. The
> following articles, based on a first-hand knowledge of Tangut texts, could
> have some usefulness:
>
> Jacques, Guillaume. 2009. The Origin of Vowel Alternations in the Tangut
> Verb. Language and Linguistics 10(1). 17–28.
>
> http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/Files/LL/Docments/Journals/10.1/j2009_1_02_2996.pdf
>
> Jacques, Guillaume. 2016. Tangut, Gyalrongic, Kiranti and the nature of
> person indexation in Sino-Tibetan/Trans-Himalayan. Linguistics
> Vanguard doi:10.1515/lingvan-2015-0033.
>
> https://www.academia.edu/25078877/Tangut_Gyalrongic_Kiranti_and_the_nature_of_person_indexation_in_Sino-Tibetan_Trans-Himalayan
>
> Gong Xun, 2017. Verb stems in Tangut and their orthography, Scripta
> 9:29-48.
>
> https://www.academia.edu/33277842/Verb_stems_in_Tangut_and_their_orthography
>
> However, regardless of the actual antiquity of person indexation, there is
> not yet a complete reconstruction system either for Gyalrongic or for
> Kiranti, though we are working on it. Person indexation affixes (and stem
> alternation that contributes to the indexation of person) have unique
> correspondences, and we still have a long way before we can explain the
> forms in a neogrammarian framework. To have an idea of how complex the
> problem is just for a subgroup (Khaling-Dumi-Koyi) of Kiranti, see:
>
> Jacques, Guillaume. 2016. Tonogenesis and tonal alternations in Khaling.
> In Enrique L. Palancar & Jean Léo Léonard (eds.), Tone and Inflection,
> 41–66. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.
>
> https://www.academia.edu/10516416/Tonogenesis_and_tonal_alternations_in_Khaling
>
> Guillaume
>
>
>
> 2018-06-19 21:52 GMT+02:00 Ilja Seržant <ilja.serzants at uni-leipzig.de>:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am looking for families (or subfamilies with a larger time depth) for
>> which verbal person-number subject indexes / "agreement" affixes (featuring
>> the intransitive subject for ergative lgs.) are reconstructed. (I already
>> have data on Dravidian, Semitic, Indo-European, Maya, Finno-Ugric and
>> Turkic but I need more for my study on the dynamics of these).
>>
>> I would be very grateful for any reference.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ilja
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Project "Grammatical Universals"
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>>
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>
>
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> Guillaume Jacques
> CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO
> http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques
> http://panchr.hypotheses.org/
>
>
> 2018-06-19 21:52 GMT+02:00 Ilja Seržant <ilja.serzants at uni-leipzig.de>:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am looking for families (or subfamilies with a larger time depth) for
>> which verbal person-number subject indexes / "agreement" affixes (featuring
>> the intransitive subject for ergative lgs.) are reconstructed. (I already
>> have data on Dravidian, Semitic, Indo-European, Maya, Finno-Ugric and
>> Turkic but I need more for my study on the dynamics of these).
>>
>> I would be very grateful for any reference.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ilja
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ilja A. Seržant, postdoc
>> Project "Grammatical Universals"
>> Universität Leipzig (IPF 141199)
>> Nikolaistraße 6-10
>> 04109 Leipzig
>>
>> URL: http://home.uni-leipzig.de/serzant/
>>
>> Tel.: + 49 341 97 37713
>> Room 5.22
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Guillaume Jacques
> CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO
> http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques
> http://panchr.hypotheses.org/
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