Constituency and convergence in the Americas

Adam J. R. Tallman (ed), Sandra Auderset (ed), Hiroto Uchihara (ed)

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
    Chapter 2
  • Constituency in Oklahoma Cherokee
    Hiroto Uchihara
    Chapter 3
  • Constituency and Wordhood in Kiowa
    Taylor L. Miller
    Chapter 4
  • Constituency in Ayautla Mazatec
    Shun Nakamoto
    Chapter 5
  • Constituency in Tù’un Ntá’ví (Mixtec) of San Martín Duraznos
    Sandra Auderset, Carmen Hernández Martínez, Albert Ventayol-Boada
    Chapter 6
  • Words as emergent constituents in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec
    Ambrocio Gutiérrez, Hiroto Uchihara
    Chapter 7
  • Constituency in Zenzontepec Chatino
    Eric W. Campbell
    Chapter 8
  • Constituency in Martinican (creole, Martinique)
    Minella Duzerol
    Chapter 9
  • Constituency in Hup
    Synchronic and diachronic perspectives
    Patience Epps
    Chapter 10
  • Constituency in Yukuna
    Magdalena Lemus Serrano
    Chapter 11
  • Constituency in Mẽbêngôkre independent clauses
    Andrés Pablo Salanova
    Chapter 12
  • Graded constituency in the Araona (Takana) verb complex
    Adam J. R. Tallman
    Chapter 13
  • Word structure and constituency in Uma Piwra South Bolivian Quechua
    Gladys Camacho Rios, Adam J. R. Tallman
    Chapter 14
  • Wordhood in Chorote (Mataguayan)
    Javier J. Carol
    Chapter 15
  • Constituency in Northern Chaco Mocoví (Guaycuruan, Argentina)
    Cristian R. Juárez
    Chapter 16
  • 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
    Chapter 17
  • Word domains, and what comes after
    Kristine Hildebrandt
    Chapter 18
  • Diagnosing phonological constituency
    Taylor L. Miller
    Chapter 19

Statistics

Constituency and convergence in the Americas

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 postdoctoral reseracher in historical linguistics at the University of Bern. Her research combines qualitative and quantitave methods and aims at integrating historical linguistics, typology, and language documentation for exploring subgrouping, verbal inflection, and tone change in Mixtecan, among other topics. Her documentation work focuses on Mixtec (San Martín Duraznos) and Cuicatec (Santos Reyes Pápalo) spoken in Oaxaca (Mexico).

Hiroto Uchihara

Hiroto Uchihara is an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 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.

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Published

May 19, 2024
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Topics in Phonological Diversity

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2943-6540

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2943-6559
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Tallman, Adam J. R., Auderset, Sandra & Uchihara, Hiroto (eds.). 2024. Constituency and convergence in the Americas. (Topics in Phonological Diversity 1). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10559861
Copyright (c) 2020 Adam J. R. Tallman, Sandra Auderset, Hiroto Uchihara (Volume Editor)

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