Journal article
Verbal morphology in Murrinh-Patha: evidence for templates
RN Nordlinger
Morphology | Springer | Published : 2010
Abstract
If questions concerning affix ordering are among the central ones in morphological theory, then languages with templatic morphology appear to provide the least interesting answer, since in these languages affix order must be simply stipulated in the form of arbitrary position classes. For this reason, much recent research into templatic morphology has attempted to show that affix order in such languages is in fact governed by underlying semantic or syntactic principles. The most fully articulated position in this respect is that of Rice (Morpheme order and semantic scope, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000), who provides a comprehensive analysis of morpheme order across the Athapask..
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Funding Acknowledgements
My heartfelt thanks to the Murrinh-Patha speakers who have so patiently attempted to teach me their wonderful language: Carmelita Perdjert, Elizabeth Cumaiyi and Bonaventure Ngarri. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Workshop on Affix Ordering held during IMM13 in Vienna in February 2008. Thank you to Stela Manova for organizing the workshop, and to the workshop participants for much stimulating discussion. I am also grateful to Mark Aronoff, Stela Manova, Andy Spencer and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions leading to substantial improvements, to Joe Blythe for generously providing unpublished data, and to the Australian Research Council (Reciprocals across languages grant # DP0343354) and the University of Melbourne Arts Faculty for funding my field trips.