The Syntax and Prosody of DOM and PNI in Mongolian

• 영문명: The Syntax and Prosody of DOM and PNI in Mongolian
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Michael Barrie 강준구(Jungu Kang)
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제32권 제3호, 405~424쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.08.31

영문 초록

We examine the behavior of bare nouns in differential object marking and pseudo noun incorporation environments in Mongolian. Unmarked bare nouns and pseudo incorporated nouns have the same segmental structure; however, we show that they differ in their prosody. The prosodic word in Mongolian has a characteristic LH contour. This contour is found on unmarked bare nouns which are not pseudo incorporated; however the pseudo incorporated noun lacks this contour. Guntsetseg (2016) identifies various syntactic differences, which we use to provide a structural analysis of nominals. Specifically, the pseudo incorporated noun is a bare nP and non-pseudo incorporated nouns are full KPs, regardless of whether they are case marked or not. We propose an analysis in a modified version of Match Theory in which phases map to prosodic categories. Specifically for Mongolian the KP phase and the nP phase both map to a phonological word. Thus, a full KP contains two recursive phonological words, while a nP (a pseudo incorporated noun) contains only a single phonological word. We propose that only non-minimal phonological words bear a LH contour. Thus, only a full KP will appear with this contour.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Methodology

4. Results

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

References

키워드

DOM PNI Mongolian Syntax-Prosody Interface Match Theory