Exuberant Exponence in Batsbi

Publication Date

2009

Journal or Book Title

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Abstract

Although multiple exponence has long been recognized by some, morpheme-based theories predict that it will not exist. To deal with the existence of double exponence in some languages, a variety of ways have been sought around the restrictions imposed by these theories. In Batsbi, a language of the Nakh-Dagestanian family, in principle as many as six markers may occur in a single verb (five gender-number markers and one person-number marker), each agreeing in many instances with the same argument; in fact, examples presented here have up to four agreement markers. The implications of this for linguistic theory are explored. An analysis is proposed in terms of word-based morphology.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-009-9070-8

Pages

267-303

Volume

27

Issue

2

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