Agreement in Kadu Inflectional merger as morphosyntactic abstraction
Agreement in Kadu Inflectional merger as morphosyntactic abstraction
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作为形态句法抽象的 Kadu 屈折合并协议
DOI：
10.1075/dia.20068.bae
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发表时间：
2023
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0.7
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Baerman M
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作者：
Baerman M
Krongo 是卡杜语族（苏丹努巴山脉）的成员，有四个协议类别：阴性、阳性、中性和复数。名义数字标记前缀在类分配中起着关键作用：有效复数前缀触发复数一致，有效单数前缀触发中性一致。在大多数其他卡杜语言中，复数类别和中性类别之间没有区别。比较和类型学证据表明，克龙戈的系统代表了更古老的事态。有人认为，这两个类合并的动机是对协议规则的形态句法抽象。两种不同的规则（一种用于单数前缀，一种用于复数前缀）被一条规则所取代，该规则为所有生产号码前缀分配相同的协议类别，无论它们标记的是单数还是复数。结果是逆数系统的形态句法镜像，例如在 Dagaare 中发现的那样。
Krongo, a member of the Kadu family (Nuba Mountains, Sudan), has four agreement classes: feminine, masculine, neuter and plural . Nominal number-marking prefixes play a key role in class assignment: productive plural prefixes trigger plural agreement, and productive singular prefixes trigger neuter agreement. In most other Kadu languages, there is no distinction between plural and neuter classes. Comparative and typological evidence shows that Krongo’s system represents the older state of affairs. It is argued that the motivation for the merger of these two classes was a morphosyntactic abstraction over agreement rules. Two distinct rules, one for singular prefixes and one for plural prefixes, were replaced by a single rule that assigned the same agreement class to all productive number prefixes, regardless of whether they mark singular or plural. The result is the morphosyntactic mirror-image of an inverse number system, such as is found in, for example, Dagaare .