Speaker: Giovanni Roversi (MIT)
Title: The morphology of North Sámi adjectives
Time: Thursday, February 23rd, 5pm – 6:30pm
Abstract: North Sámi adjectives are sometimes inflected for case and number, and sometimes not. The pattern is quite complex, and reminiscent of other languages (Hungarian, Turkish, etc.) for which analyses exist on the market, but with added complications that the existing analyses may or may not capture without patches. I want to present some work in progress that tries to take a stab at developing a full account of the North Sámi data, and I’ll highlight the parts that still need some ironing out.