Forthcoming: Constituency and convergence in the Americas

Adam J. R. Tallman   Sandra Auderset   Hiroto Uchihara  

Synopsis

This volume brings together studies on morphosyntactic and phonological constituency from a host of languages across the Americas. The study expands on previous multivariate typological work on phonological domains by simultaneously coding the results of morphosyntactic constituency tests. The descriptions are geared towards developing a typology of constituency and linguistic levels in both morphosyntactic and phonological domains. The multivariate approach adopted in this volume deconstructs constituency tests and phonological domains into cross-linguistically comparable variables applying and extending autotypology method to the domain of constituent structure. Current methodologies for establishing constituents have been criticized for containing an in-built selection bias, where the results and interpretation of tests are chosen or sampled in such a fashion that specific analyses are prejudged to be correct or false in a non-rigorous fashion. The papers of this volume develop novel methodology for reporting and coding constituency variables for language description and comparison that seeks to reign in selection bias allowing theories concerning the relationship between morphosyntactic and phonological constituent structure to be more severely tested.

Chapters

  • Introduction
    Phonological and morphosyntactic constituency in cross-linguistic perspective
    Adam J. R. Tallman
    Chapter 1
  • Constituency in Cup’ik and the problem of holophrasis
    Anthony C. Woodbury
  • Constituency in Oklahoma Cherokee
    Hiroto Uchihara
  • Constituency and Wordhood in Kiowa
    Taylor L. Miller
  • Constituency in Ayautla Mazatec
    Shun Nakamoto
  • Constituency in Tù’un Ntá’ví (Mixtec) of San Martín Duraznos
    Sandra Auderset, Carmen Hernández Martínez, Albert Ventayol-Boada
  • Words as emergent constituents in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec
    Ambrocio Gutiérrez, Hiroto Uchihara
  • Constituency in Zenzontepec Chatino
    Eric W. Campbell
  • Constituency in Martinican (creole, Martinique)
    Minella Duzerol
  • Constituency in Hup
    Synchronic and diachronic perspectives
    Patience Epps
  • Constituency in Yukuna
    Magdalena Lemus Serrano
  • Constituency in Mẽbêngôkre independent clauses
    Andrés Pablo Salanova
  • Graded constituency in the Araona (Takana) verb complex
    Adam J. R. Tallman
  • Word structure and constituency in Uma Piwra South Bolivian Quechua
    Gladys Camacho Rios, Adam J. R. Tallman
  • Wordhood in Chorote (Mataguayan)
    Javier J. Carol
  • Constituency in Northern Chaco Mocoví (Guaycuruan, Argentina)
    Cristian R. Juárez
  • Constituency and convergence in the Americas
    Results and discussion
    Sandra Auderset, Caroline de Becker, Gladys Camacho Rios, Eric W. Campbell, Javier J. Carol, Minella Duzerol, Patience Epps, Ambrocio Gutiérrez, Cristian R. Juárez, Magdalena Lemus Serrano, Stephen Francis Mann, Taylor L. Miller , Shun Nakamoto, Zoe Poirier Maruenda, Andrés Pablo Salanova, Hiroto Uchihara, Natalie Weber, Anthony C. Woodbury, Dennis Wylie, Adam J. R. Tallman
  • Commentary 1
    Kristine Hildebrandt
  • Commentary 2
    Taylor L. Miller

Biographies

Adam J. R. Tallman

Adam J.R. Tallman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena. His focus is on language documentation and description, linguistic typology and quantitative methods. He has done fieldwork on Saulteaux Ojibwe (Algonquian), Chácobo (Pano), Pacahuara (Pano), and Araona (Takana).

Sandra Auderset

Sandra Auderset is a PhD Candidate in Linguistics at the MPI-EVA and UCSB. Her current work explores Mixtecan language history with qualitative and quantitative methods, focusing on subgrouping, verbal inflection, and tone change. She is also involved in a documentation project on a Mixtec variety spoken in Oaxaca and California.

Hiroto Uchihara

Hiroto Uchihara is an Assistant Research Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas , Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His main focus is on tonal languages in North America, especially Cherokee and Otomanguean (Zapotec, Tlapanec and Mixtec), especially their phonology, morphology and morphosyntax, both from synchronic and diachronic, and from descriptive/typological and theoretical perspectives.

Published

May 19, 2024
LaTeX source on GitHub

Series

Topics in Phonological Diversity

Online ISSN

2943-6540

Print ISSN

2943-6559
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Tallman, Adam J. R., Auderset, Sandra & Uchihara, Hiroto (eds.). Forthcoming. Constituency and convergence in the Americas. (Topics in Phonological Diversity). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Copyright (c) 2020 Adam J. R. Tallman, Sandra Auderset, Hiroto Uchihara (Volume Editor)

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