Feature competition in Algonquian agreement

dc.contributor.authorXu, Yadong
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeGhomeshi, Jila (Linguistics) McGinnis-Archibald, Martha (University of Victoria)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorOxford, William (Linguistics)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-12T22:19:38Z
dc.date.available2016-09-12T22:19:38Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.degree.disciplineLinguisticsen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the patterning of the Algonquian “central agreement”, i.e. the primary person-number agreement marking, from a diachronic and comparative perspective. The central agreement patterns differ in the two orders: in the conjunct it is fusional and often portmanteau while in the independent it is discontinuous and non-portmanteau. In addition to these differences, there are also some commonalities, such as a pattern in which 1p consistently outranks 2p in both orders. This thesis shows that the differences between the two orders can be taken to reflect variation in the features of the syntactic probe and different morphological spell-out rules, while the shared properties follow from the underlying structure of φ-features. In particular, it is proposed that an additional person feature under the [plural] node causes first person plural to be privileged over second person plural in the competition among vocabulary items in post-syntactic spellout.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2016en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/31695
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectAlgonquianen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectAgreementen_US
dc.subjectPhi-featuresen_US
dc.subjectProbe-Goal modelen_US
dc.subjectFissionen_US
dc.subjectActivity Conditionen_US
dc.titleFeature competition in Algonquian agreementen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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