Abstract
This paper distinguishes between scopal affix paradigms and compositional affix paradigms, two notions confused in the literature. The Yi languages (Tibeto-Burman: China) exhibit maximally scopal paradigms which reflect the cognitive layers of the sentence in the mind of the speaker. In spite of this prototypical pattern, the paradigm is full of noncompostional pairs of morphemes. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-24 |
| Journal | Morphology |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Research Keywords
- China
- Compositionality
- Scopal morphology
- Templatic morphology
- Yi