Negation through reduplication and tone: implications for the LFG/PFM interface

Bond, O (2015) Negation through reduplication and tone: implications for the LFG/PFM interface Journal of Linguistics.

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Abstract

Morphological marking of negation through verbal reduplication and tone is a typologically rare phenomenon attested in Eleme (Niger-Congo; Nigeria). Using Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) and Paradigm Function Morphology (PFM) to model first-hand data, I argue that reduplication is not a direct exponent of negation in Eleme, but an asemantic morphomic process, indirectly associated with the presence of a negative polarity feature in LFG’s m(orphological)- structure. While negative verb forms of this kind are typologically unusual, the data can be explained by independently motivated morphology-internal principles. The empirical facts thereby provide support for an m-structure, characterised by its own principles and rules, which interfaces with a bifurcated lexicon that separates content from form.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Literature and Languages > English > Surrey Morphology Group
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Bond, O o.bond@surrey.ac.uk
Date :	24 July 2015
DOI :	10.1017/S0022226715000134
Additional Information :	Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015
Depositing User :	Oliver Bond
Date Deposited :	02 Dec 2015 16:52
Last Modified :	16 Jan 2019 16:52
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/805829

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