Titill: | One classy number: Linking morphemes in Dutch and German |
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Útgáfa: | 2020 |
Tungumál: | Enska |
Umfang: | 1–14 |
Háskóli/Stofnun: | Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland |
Svið: | Hugvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Humanities (UI) |
Deild: | Málvísindastofnun (HÍ) The Institute of Linguistics (UI) |
ISBN: | 9798680968314 |
Birtist í: | NELS;50 |
Efnisorð: | Samsett orð; Orðhlutafræði |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2450 |
Tilvitnun:Fenger, Paula & Gísli Rúnar Harðarson. 2020. One classy number: Linking morphemes in Dutch and German í Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song, Ayana Whitman (ritstj.): NELS 50, vol 2, 1–14.. Amherst, MA:GLSA
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Útdráttur:Germanic compounds often contain an element referred to as linkers, (L). These elements are homophonous with inflectional suffixes, like plural or case markers, but do not nec- essarily have the same meaning or function as the corresponding inflectional suffix. This is exemplified by Dutch below where, outside of compounds, schaap is obligatorily inter- preted as plural in the presence of the plural marker, (1a). This is not the case in compounds, where schaap is unspecified for number interpretation in the presence of the L in (1b) and does not necessarily match the choice of inflectional suffix outside of the compound in (1c).
(1) Dutch (Krott et al. 2007:28)
a. schaap -en
sheep -PL
‘sheep’
b. schaap -en -bout
sheep -L -leg
‘sheep leg’
c. schaap -s -kooi
sheep -L -fold
‘sheep fold’
These L have received a wide range of analyses but typically they are analyzed as some- thing distinct from the corresponding inflectional suffixes. In this paper however, we argue, focusing on German and Dutch, that the behavior of L follows from their structural posi- tion. Following De Belder (2013), we argue that both Ls and the corresponding inflectional affixes are class markers and that the complex behaviors observed follows from their dis- tribution in the DP. Ls thus shed light on the feature system of the Germanic DP and their interactions. We furthermore propose that the presence or absence of L can be taken as an indicator of the size of the
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Leyfi:©2020 by Paula Fenger & Gísli Rúnar Harðarson
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