Autori
Koenig, Jean-Pierre
Michelson, Karin

Titolo
Derived nouns and structured inflection in Oneida
Periodico
Lingue e linguaggio
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 37 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 9 - Pagina finale: 33

It is often assumed, particularly in inferential-realizational approachesto in􁞸ection (Anderson 1992; Stump 2001), that in􁞸ectional morphologyis “􁞸atµ, i.e. does not involve internal constituency or intermediarylexical categories. We argue in this paper on the basis of the derivation ofnouns from verbs that the in􁞸ectional pre􁞷xes of Oneida (Northern Iroquoian)form a 􁞸at template, but that the in􁞸ectional su􁞹xes belong to a di􁞶erentlayer from the pre􁞷xes. We further argue that verb-to-noun derivation is semanticallytransparent in Oneida in that lexical category follows ontologicalsorts and category-changing derivation is always accompanied by ontologicalchange, from situation descriptions to object descriptions. Finally, we suggestthat verb-to-noun derivation plays a special role in the Oneida lexicon as somany names of everyday object categories are derived from verbs and thatverbs behave as the only open class in the language.



SICI: 1720-9331(2020)37:1<9:DNASII>2.0.ZU;2-J
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