Brinklow, Nathan; Dufresne, Monique; Lessard, Greg; Déchaine, Rose-Marie et Onkwawén:na, Tsi Tyónnheht
(2024).
« Left Margin Syntax of Kanien’kéha » (Colloque 50 ans de linguistique à L'UQAM : Regards croisés sur les enjeux de la linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal, 22 au 24 avril 2021), sous la dir. de Pinsonneault, Reine et Léveillé, Yoann.
Montréal, pp. 33-50.
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We provide a description and analysis of the left margin syntax of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk; northern Iroquoian) as it relates to clause-typing and propose that there are three C-typing layers. One layer—which we label c—is external to the verb complex. The other two layers—which we label CFORCE and CFINITENESS—are realized as a set of modality and aspect-sensitive mood morphemes called pre-prefixes (Lounsbury 1953, Bonvillain 1989, Hopkins 1988, Mithun 1989). Key to our proposal is evidence from previously unanalyzed paradigmatic gaps and suppletion, which allow us to detect two important features of Kanien’kéha C-typing: (i) it uses scalar logic; and (ii) it is sensitive to the contrast between AFFIRMATIVE and NEGATIVE polarity. Our analysis has implications for linguistic theory (relative to how scales and polarity manifest in natural language) and for language pedagogy (relative to teaching and learning polarity-sensitive C-typing).
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