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Synchrony and diachrony in Menominee derivational morphology

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Author	Macaulay, Monica Salmons, Joseph
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	This paper identifies two difficulties with treatments of derivation in Algonquian languages. In traditional approaches to grammar, in which the morpheme is seen as a unitary entity, morphemes are understood as minimal units of meaning and/or function. Definitions share an appeal to the morpheme’s indivisibility. In the Algonquianist literature, in contrast, some morphemes (‘components’) can themselves contain other morphemes (which we call ‘formatives’) and they can also be synchronically derived from other components or stems. Drawing data from Menominee, we propose that these difficulties disappear if the formatives are seen as historical rather than synchronic units, while the components are the synchronic morphemes. Formatives bear the hallmarks of historical products of morphologization (phonetic/phonological reduction, semantic bleaching, and increase in grammatical function), and we conclude that they are not part of synchronic grammatical computation. This resolves problems present in traditional and modern theoretical approaches to Algonquian derivation, and has broader ramifications for linguistic theory: in both the structuralist and generativist traditions, synchronic grammar has often been seen as expansive, responsible for generating surface patterns that may instead be products of history. This has been the case in phonology and syntax. The present paper provides a study of the phenomenon in derivational morphology, and suggests that a more modest role for synchronic rules is called for.
Starting Page	179
Ending Page	215
Page Count	37
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18715621
Journal	Morphology
Volume Number	27
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18715656
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-10-17
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Morpheme Derivation Compounding Synchrony Diachrony Menominee Algonquian Linguistics Comparative Linguistics Phonology Sign Language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language

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