Speaker: Oddur Snorrason (QMUL)
Title: Pseudo-ABA patterns in pronominal morphology (Middleton 2021)
Time: Thursday, November 21, 5pm – 6pm
Location: 32-D769
Abstract: I‘ll be presenting Middleton‘s (2021) paper on the pseudo-ABA patterns of morphology found in pronominal forms. Apparent ABA patterns in languages like Babanki, Malayalam, Yoruba and Tok Pisin challenge proposed containment relationships for prominal morphology (see Harbour 2016, Middleton 2020). In this paper, Middleton shows how the problematic data can be dealt with in an analysis which adopts spanned exponents (Svenonius 2012), while null allomorphy and impoverishment analyses overgenerate.