The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto

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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology:
The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
Zachary J. O’Hagan
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
April 14, 2011
Zachary J. O’Hagan
The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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The Problem
Proto-Omagua-Kokama
(1)
Ra usu Ra ukakati
Ra
usu Ra
uka =kati
3sg.ms go 3sg.ms house =allative
‘He goes to his house.’
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
(2)
*otsó tsóka kot1
otsó tsók
-a
kot1
3.erg go 3.abs house -ref allative
‘He goes to his [another’s] house.’
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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The Problem
Proto-Omagua-Kokama
(3)
tsI atika i ipiRa
tsI
atika i
ipiRa
1sg.fs throw 3sg.fs fish
‘I throw his fish.’
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
(4)
*itSé atik ipiRá
itSé
atik
ipiRá
1sg.pron 1sg.erg- throw 3.abs- fish
‘I throw his fish.’
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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Outline & Goals
1
2
Omagua Documentation Project
Introductions:
Proto-Omagua-Kokama
Tupı́-Guaranı́
3
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́ Verb Stems
Person-Cross-Referencing
4
Patterning of TG Morphology in POK Roots
5
Motivations for Distributions
6
Identifying a Lexifier
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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OMAGUA DOCUMENTATION PROJECT
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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Zachary J. O’Hagan
The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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Omagua Documentation Project
Researchers
Lev Michael, Tammy Stark, Vivian Wauters, Clare Sandy, Zach
O’Hagan
Timeline
2003-2008: Text Corpus by Arnaldo Huanaquiri Tuisima
2004: Fieldwork by Edinson Hamancayo Curi (Recordings)
2005: Fieldwork by Brianna Grohman (UT Austin) (Phonology)
2009-2010: Corpus Digitization, Parsing & Grammatical Analysis
June-Aug 2010: Fieldwork in San Joaquı́n de Omaguas, Perú
2010-2011: Grammatical Analysis of Fieldwork
June-Aug 2011: Fieldwork in San Joaquı́n and Iquitos
Data
10-Notebook Written Corpus (majority digitized)
∼ 1500-Word Dictionary (in FLEx)
4 Notebooks of Elicited Data
∼ 10 Minutes of Spontaneous Narration
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Location, Perú
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Location, Loreto
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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Zachary J. O’Hagan
The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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Speakers
Arnaldo Huanaquiri Tuisima (78)
Lino Huanı́o Cabudiva (74) & Alicia Huanı́o Cabudiva (77)
Amelia Huanaquiri Tuisima (80)
Lazarina Cabudiva Tuisima (91)
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PROTO-OMAGUA-KOKAMA
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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Proto-Omagua-Kokama: Background
History
Predecesor of Omagua and Kokama-Kokamilla
Contact origin
Lexifier language was Tupı́-Guaranı́ language
Spoken before European arrival (1500 A.D.)
Large geographic spread
Relations
Lexical and grammatical items resemble TG forms
Large presence of non-TG grammatical morphemes
Many non-TG syntactic structures
Reconstruction
Being carried out by Vivian Wauters & Zach O’Hagan
Phonological, morphological, syntactic
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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Proto-Omagua-Kokama: Relationships
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
LEXIFIER
Proto-Omagua-Kokama
Old Kokama
Kokama
Kokamilla
Old Omagua
Omagua
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Proto-Omagua-Kokama: Situating Work
Ana Suelly Cabral, Kokama scholar
Dissertation (1995) demonstrated non-classifiability
Phonological
Morphological
Syntactic
Lexical
Rapid creolization hypothesis
Focus on exotic simplification (roots and grammar)
Language retains great deal of complex grammatical forms
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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TUPÍ-GUARANÍ
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Tupı́-Guaranı́: Family
Young family, high degree of lexical and grammatical relatedness
8 subranches
∼ 50 languages
10 reportedly extinct
Mostly spoken in Brazil
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
III
II
I
VII
VIII
VI
V
IV
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Scholarship
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Aryon Dall’Igna Rodrigues
Classification (1958; 1984; 2002)
Estrutura da Lı́ngua Tupinambá (1981)
Cheryl Jensen
Reconstruction (1987; 1989; 1990; 1998)
Began with dissertation on Wayampı́ (1984)
Charles Schleicher
Reconstruction (1998)
Marginalized in broader TG studies
Tupı́-Guaranı́ Languages
Mainly SIL linguists until 1990’s
Large descriptive tradition following Rodrigues
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PTG: Person-Cross-Referencing Prefixes
Main clauses
Split ergative alignment (active/stative)
Person hierarchy
Ergative/absolutive cross-referencing
Dependent clauses
Standard ergative alignment
No person hierarchy
Absolutive cross-referencing only
Person
1sg
1pl.excl
1pl.incl
2sg
2pl
3
erg
aoRojaeRepeo-
abs
tSé (R-)
oRé (R-)
jané (R-)
né (R-)
pé (n-)
i-, ts-, t-
port
oRoopo-
co-ref
wioRojeReepejeo-
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Free Pronouns
itSé
oré
jané
ené
pe...ẽ
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PTG: Person Hierarchy
1>2>3
If subj is hierarchically superior, ergative/absolutive cross-referencing
If obj is hierarchically superior, absolutive cross-referencing only
If subj 1 & obj 2, portmanteau prefixes used
PTG
a-i-potár
oro-i-potár
ja-i-potár
ere-i-potár
pe-i-potár
o-i-potár
Gloss
I want him
We want him
We want him
You want him
You want him
He wants him
PTG
tSé potár
oré potár
jané potár
né potár
pé potár
o-i-potár
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Gloss
He wants me
He wants us
He wants us
He wants you
He wants you
He wants him
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PTG: Root Classes & Subclasses
All roots divided into one of seven root classes
Verb roots fell into three classes
Determines selection of 3.abs allomorph *i-, *ts- or *tPrimarily based on word shape
Synchronically irregular, both prosodically and semantically
Generic stems function as deverbal nominals
POK roots show relics of each of these processes
Sublcass
1a
1b
2a
3.abs Allomorph
iits-
Generic Form
Ø
#C → [+nasal]
t-
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Shape
#V ∼ #C (not /p/)
#/p/
#V
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PTG: Example Sentences
Main Clause
(5)
*itS1 otsepják
itS1
otsepják
3.abs- mother 3.erg- 3.abs- see
‘He sees his [another’s] mother.’
Main & Dependent Clause
(6)
*otsó imoPébo
otsó imoPé -bo
3.erg- go 3.abs- teach -ser
‘We went to teach him.’
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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POK: What Was Frozen?1
Ergative: 1sg, 1pl.incl, 3sg
Absolutive: 3sg (with root class allomorphy)
Person
1sg
1pl.excl
1pl.incl
2sg
2pl
3sg
1
erg
aoRojaeRepeo-
abs
tSé (R-)
oRé (R-)
jané (R-)
né (R-)
pé (n-)
i-, ts-, t-
port
oRoopo-
coref
wioRojeReepejeo-
Free Pronouns
wi-itSé
oré
jané
ené
pe...ẽ
Bold=frozen; dark gray=not frozen; black=non-existent
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POK: What is Productive?2
Absolutive: 1sg, 1pl.incl, 2sg, 2pl
Free Pronouns: 1sg, 1pl.incl, 2sg, 2pl
Person
1sg
1pl.excl
1pl.incl
2sg
2pl
3sg
erg
aoRojaeRepeo-
abs
tSé (R-)
oRé (R-)
jané (R-)
né (R-)
pé (n-)
i-, ts-, t-
port
oRoopo-
coref
wioRojeReepejeo-
Free Pronouns
itSé
oré
jané
ené
pe...ẽ
2
Bold=frozen; dark gray=not frozen; light gray=productive;
black=non-existent
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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3 Big Questions
1
What is the percentage of POK verb roots with frozen prefixes, out of
TG roots?
2
What are the constraints that determine the distribution of prefixes
on POK roots?
3
Which clause-types were which PTG stems frozen out of?
Zachary J. O’Hagan
The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
UC Berkeley
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3 Big Questions
1
What is the percentage of POK verb roots with frozen prefixes, out of
TG roots?
2
What are the constraints that determine the distribution of prefixes
on POK roots?
3
Which clause-types were which PTG stems frozen out of?
Zachary J. O’Hagan
The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
UC Berkeley
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3 Big Questions
1
What is the percentage of POK verb roots with frozen prefixes, out of
TG roots?
2
What are the constraints that determine the distribution of prefixes
on POK roots?
3
Which clause-types were which PTG stems frozen out of?
Zachary J. O’Hagan
The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
UC Berkeley
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3 Big Questions
1
What is the percentage of POK verb roots with frozen prefixes, out of
TG roots?
2
What are the constraints that determine the distribution of prefixes
on POK roots?
3
Which clause-types were which PTG stems frozen out of?
Zachary J. O’Hagan
The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
UC Berkeley
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3 Big Questions
1
What is the percentage of POK verb roots with frozen prefixes, out of
TG roots?
2
What are the constraints that determine the distribution of prefixes
on POK roots?
3
Which clause-types were which PTG stems frozen out of?
Zachary J. O’Hagan
The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
UC Berkeley
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Percentages
So far...
Total Number of Unique Roots: 729
Zachary J. O’Hagan
The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
UC Berkeley
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Percentages
So far...
Total Number of Unique Roots: 729
Total Number of Identified TG Roots: 389 (likely higher in reality)
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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Percentages
So far...
Total Number of Unique Roots: 729
Total Number of Identified TG Roots: 389 (likely higher in reality)
Total Number of TG Roots with Frozen Prefixes: 171 (∼ 44%)
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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Percentages
So far...
Total Number of Unique Roots: 729
Total Number of Identified TG Roots: 389 (likely higher in reality)
Total Number of TG Roots with Frozen Prefixes: 171 (∼ 44%)
Total Number of Identified TG Verb Roots: 163
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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Percentages
So far...
Total Number of Unique Roots: 729
Total Number of Identified TG Roots: 389 (likely higher in reality)
Total Number of TG Roots with Frozen Prefixes: 171 (∼ 44%)
Total Number of Identified TG Verb Roots: 163
Total Number of TG Verbs with Frozen Prefixes: 119 (∼ 73%)
Does not include forms that may derive from semantically complex,
non-prefixed stems.
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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DISTRIBUTION OF FROZEN MORPHOLOGY
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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PART I
POK Roots From PTG Main Clauses
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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POK: Frozen *a- 1sg.erg
Distribution by Predicate Type
Bivalent
Active monovalent
Percentage of Verb Roots with Frozen Prefixes: 8/119
POK
Root
Gloss
apuka
‘laugh’
apupuRi ‘cook’
atika
‘throw’
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Prefix Root Suffix
Gloss
apuka
Ø
‘I laugh’
apupuR
-i
‘I cook’
atik
-a
‘I throw’
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POK: Frozen *ja- 1pl.incl
Distribution by Predicate Type
Bivalent
Active monovalent
Percentage of Verb Roots with Frozen Prefixes: 10/119
POK
intr
tr
Root
yap1ta
yapaRaSi
yaupaRa
yawaSima
yat1ma
yapiSika
Gloss
‘stay’
‘dance’
‘flee’
‘arrive’
‘plant’
‘grab’
Pref.
jajajajajaja-
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Root
Suf.
Gloss
p1tuPu
Ø
‘We stay’
poratséj
Ø
‘We dance’
upaR
-a
‘We plant’
watSem
-a
‘We arrive’
t1m
-a
‘We plant’
p1ts1k
-a
‘We grab’
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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POK: Frozen *i- 3.abs & *ja- 1pl.incl.erg
Vowel-initial roots
Ambiguity because of phonetic realization
Distribution of PTG prefixes informative
Stative monovalent must show *i- (were Subclass 1a)
Active monovalent may show *i- or *ja
iintr
tr
jaja-
Root
yapaRa
yapua
yap1ka
yasuka
yasai
yat1ka
POK
Gloss
‘be twisted’
‘be round’
‘sit down’
‘bathe’
‘cover’
‘bite, prick’
Pref.
iijajajaja-
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Root Suf.
Gloss
apaR
-a
‘It is twisted’
apua
Ø
‘It is round’
ap1k
-a
‘We sit down’
asuk
-a
‘We bathe’
asai
Ø
‘We cover’
at1ka
Ø
‘We prick’
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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POK: Frozen *o- 3.erg
Distribution by Predicate Type
Active monovalent
Percentage of Verb Roots with Frozen Prefixes: 20/119
POK
Root
Gloss
ukai
‘burn’
umanu
‘die’
uSima
‘leave’
upaka
‘wake up’
uwaRi ‘fall down’
uyupI
‘descend’
Pref.
oooooo-
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Root Suf.
Gloss
kay
Ø
‘He/she/it burns’
manõ
Ø
‘He/she/it dies’
tSem
-a
‘He/she/it leaves’
pak
-a
‘He/she/it wakes up’
PaR
-i
‘He/she/it falls down’
j1p
-i
‘He/she/it descends’
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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POK: Frozen Subclass 1a, Part I (*i- 3.abs)
Distribution by Predicate Type
Stative monovalent
Vowel-initial
Consonant-initial
#V
#C
Root
yapaRa
yapua
IRuRu
iRawa
ikiana
1k1Ra
POK
Gloss
‘be twisted’
‘be round’
‘be swollen’
‘be bitter’
‘be dry’
‘be green’
Pref.
iiiiii-
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Root Suf.
Gloss
apaR
-a
‘It is twisted’
apua
Ø
‘He/she/it is round’
RuRu
Ø
‘He/she/it is swollen’
Rap
-a
‘It is bitter’
kan
-a
‘He/she/it is dry’
k1R
-a
‘He/she/it is green’
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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POK: Frozen Subclass 1a, Part II (*Ø generic?)
Impossible to know whether bare roots or semantically complex
generics
V-initial roots may also fall into this group
POK
intr
tr
Root
kapi
sapukui
tini
yaSú
kaRay
kwatiaRa
susu
tuRuka
Gloss
‘defecate’
‘summon’
‘be white’
‘cry’
‘scratch’
‘write’
‘suck’
‘shake out’
Pref.
Ø
Ø
Ø
Ø
Ø
Ø
Ø
Ø
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Root
Suf.
Gloss
kaPaB
-i
‘defecating’
tsapukaj
Ø
‘shouting’
tin
-i
‘whiteness’
jatsePo
Ø
‘crying’
kaRãy
Ø
‘scratching’
kwatiaR
-a
‘drawing’
tSuPu
Ø
‘biting’
toRok
-a
‘ripping’
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POK: Frozen Subclass 1b, Part I (*i- 3.abs)
Distribution by Predicate Type
/p/-initial stative monovalent
Root
ipu
ipuku
ipuSi
POK
Gloss
‘sound’
‘be long’
‘be heavy’
Pref.
iii-
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Root Suf.
Gloss
pu
Ø
‘It sounds’
puku
Ø
‘He/she/it is long’
pots1j
Ø
‘He/she/it is heavy’
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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POK: Frozen Subclass 1b, Part II (nasalization)
No POK verb roots have been found that show the nasalized onset of
/p/-initial PTG verbs.
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POK: Bare Subclass 1b
More numerous than those prefixed by *i- 3.abs
intr
tr
POK
Root
Gloss
pIwa ‘be flat’
p1tani ‘be red’
piRuka
‘peel’
Prefix
Ø
Ø
Ø
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Root Suffix
Gloss
peB
-a
‘be flat’
p1tan
-i
‘be red’
piRok
-a
‘peel’
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POK: Frozen Subclass 2a, Part I (*ts- 3.abs)
Distribution by Predicate Type
V-initial stative monovalent
Root
saku
sapiSi
saR1wa
saSi
s1saRay
suni
POK
Gloss
‘be hot’
‘be sleepy’
‘be happy’
‘be painful’
‘forget’
‘be black’
Pref.
tstststs
ts
ts-
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Root
Suf.
Gloss
akub
Ø
‘He/she/it is hot’
opets1j
Ø
‘He/she/it is sleep’
oR1b
-a
‘He/she/it is happy’
ats1
Ø
‘It is painful’
etSaRaj
Ø
‘He/she/it forgets’
un
-i
‘He/she/it is black’
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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POK: Frozen Subclass 2a, Part II (*t- generic)
Distribution by Predicate Type
V-initial stative monovalent
Root
t1p1
t1w1ti
POK
Gloss
‘be deep’
‘be smelly’
Pref.
tt-
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Root Suf.
Gloss
1p1
Ø
‘depth’
ewut
-i
‘smelliness’
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The Explanatory Power of Frozen Morphology: The Case of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
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PART II
POK Roots From PTG Dependent Clauses
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POK: Active Predicates with Absolutive Prefixes
1a
intr
1b
2a
1a
tr
2a
POK
Root
Gloss
yap1ka ‘sit down
yasuka
‘bathe’
ipama ‘stand up’
sas1ma
‘shout’
samu
‘dive’
IRuRi
‘bring’
inupa
‘hit’
s1k1i
‘pull’
sItuni
‘smell’
sasawa
‘cross’
Pref.
iiitstsiitststs-
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
Root Suf.
Gloss
ap1k
-a
‘He sits down’
atSuk
-a
‘He bathes’
pam
-a
‘He stands up’
atsem
-a
‘He shouts’
amõ
Ø
‘He dives’
RuR
-i
‘X brings him’
nupã
Ø
‘X hits him’
ek1j
Ø
‘X pulls him’
etun
-i
‘X smells him’
atsaB
-a
‘X crosses him’
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CONCLUSIONS
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Constraints on Prefix Distribution
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Constraints on Prefix Selection
Four principles work in tandem to describe, given that a POK root
shows frozen morphology, what prefixes were permissible for freezing
(1 & 2) and, in the case that multiple prefixes were permissible, which
were ultimately frozen (3 & 4).
1
2
3
4
Type of Predicate
Morphological Status of Person Prefix
Discourse Referent Frequency
“Pragmatic Participant Selection”
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Principle 1: Type of Predicate
Frozen prefixes mirror their permissible distributions in PTG exactly,
given alignment and person-hierarchy restrictions
Absolutive prefixes on stative preds. (main clauses, subj)
Absolutive prefixes on active monovalent preds. (dep. clauses, subj)
Absolutive prefixes on bivalent preds. (dep. clauses, obj)
Ergative prefixes on active monovalent preds. (main clauses, subj)
Ergative prefixes on on bivalent preds. (main clauses, subj)
No attestations of impermissible distributions of prefixes
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Principle 2: Morphological Status of Person Prefix
Only bound prefixes were susceptible to freezing
Person
1sg
1pl.excl
1pl.incl
2sg
2pl
3sg
erg
aoRojaeRepeo-
abs
tSé (R-)
oRé (R-)
jané (R-)
né (R-)
pé (n-)
i-, ts-, t-
port
oRoopo-
coref
wioRojeReepejeo-
Free Pronouns
itSé
oré
jané
ené
pe...ẽ
8 out of 10 non-bound person “prefixes” were inherited as POK
person-markers
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Principle 3: Discourse Referent Frequency
Problem: Why were no second-person forms frozen?
Declarative sentences in conversation typically do not involve
second-person referents
Speakers tend to talk about themselves or others, but not their
addressee
One attestation of frozen second-person form is from imperative
(7)
ikwani InI s1k1itaRa
ikwani InI s1k1i -taRa
go.imp 2sg fish -purp
‘Go fish!’
Tupinambá: ekwãi, e- kwã -i, 2sg.imp go.imp -?
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Principle 4: “Pragmatic Participant Selection” (Part I)
Problem: How to account for distribution of prefixes on active
monovalent and bivalent predicates?
Definition
Verbs that denote canonically multi-participant eventualities appear with
plural prefixes. Verbs that denote canonically single-participant
eventualities appear with singular prefixes only.
Accounts for distribution of ergative prefixes on monovalent predicates
2 results for bivalent predicates
In some cases selection targeted syntactic subjects (main clause)
In other cases selection targeted syntactic objects (dep. clause)
Accounts for which clause-types bivalents were frozen from
Does not account for why some active monovalents were frozen out
of dependent clauses
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Principle 4: “Pragmatic Participant Selection” (Part II)
intr
tr
Singular
Ergative
Absolutive
aoitsenter
go
lie down
dive
laugh
sleep
sit down
shout
tremble
walk
bathe
respond
fall down
sink
burn
die
stay
fart
end
sit down
lend
pull
kill
cook
hit
await
throw
take
cross
drop
eat
hear
count
smell
close
look for
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Plural
Ergative
jahide
dance
row
flee
plant
catch, hunt for
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Remaining Distributions
Only *a- 1sg.erg & *ja- 1pl.incl.erg appear on bivalent
predicates.
Discourse frequency?
Bivalent predicates show now reflexes of absolutive prefixes
cross-referencing object.
What implications does this have for a candidate lexifier language?
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Future Work
Identify remaining TG roots & frozen morphology
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Future Work
Identify remaining TG roots & frozen morphology
Apply a similar methodology to nominal roots (more difficult)
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Future Work
Identify remaining TG roots & frozen morphology
Apply a similar methodology to nominal roots (more difficult)
Given that frozen prefixes show up on proportionally fewer roots:
Do these proportions vary by the root subclasses that affect stative
prefixing?
Are there additional semantic and/or pragmatic factors that affect the
freezing of semantically complex stems?
What was the mechanism by which POK inherited only some roots
from complex stems, and not all?
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Mechanism
Proto-Tupı́-Guaranı́
(8)
*jané jaip1ts1ka
jané
jaip1ts1k -a
1pl.incl.pron 1pl.incl.erg- 3.abs- grab -?
‘We grabbed it.’
Proto-Omagua-Kokama
(9)
tana yapiSikia muRa
tana
yapiSikia muRa
1pl.excl.ms grab
3sg.ms
‘We grabbed it.’
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Identifying a Lexifier
Morphosyntactic Criteria for a TG-Lexifier Language
1
2
3
4
5
Must have absolutive prefixes
Must employ absolutive prefixes to coreference objects on transitives
Must show cognate to *ja- 1pl.incl.erg
Lexical items must be members of the root subclass that POK frozen
form is indicative of
May have lost coreferential prefixes
Operates in conjunction with:
Lexical correspondences
Phonological correspondences
Comparisons of extant grammatical morphemes and constructions
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