Material Type  

 학위논문

 

0016934703

Date and Time of Latest Transaction  

20240214101644

ISBN  

9798380367103

DDC  

401

Author  

Ko, Edwin.

Title/Author  

Studies in Crow Linguistics: Documentation, Grammar, and History - [electronic resource]

Publish Info  

[S.l.] : University of California, Berkeley., 2023

Publish Info  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Material Info  

1 online resource(192 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Garrett, Andrew.

학위논문주기  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2023.

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This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Abstracts/Etc  

요약This dissertation focuses on the Crow language, an Indigenous language spoken in southern Montana of North America. This dissertation considers three topics in Crow linguistics: documentation, grammar, and history.In Chapter 3, on documentation, I consider semantic field methodology and argue that fieldworkers who are describing the semantic grammar of a language may wish to consider co-speech gesture as an important resource for conveying abstract grammatical notions. The genesis of this work lies in the lack of previous work that rigorously analyzed the semantics of modal and aspect marking in Crow that participate in triggering multiple exponence. During the semantic elicitation sessions, I noticed that Jack Real Bird, a collaborator and fluent speaker of Crow, was employing gestures, in addition to his English utterances, to concretize the specific meanings of his Crow utterances. These gestures were not random and not devoid of semantic content; instead, they were meaningful within the situated, interactional setting. This chapter focuses on the aspect markers, -dahku and daachi, whose meanings are not entirely clear. Employing discourse and gesture analysis, I suggest that the former is most appropriately analyzed as an iterative and the latter as a continuative.In Chapter 4, on grammar, I present an account of the patterns of multiple exponence in Crow within the framework of Distributed Morphology. Under the view that raising and control in Crow are derived via A-movement (Hornstein, 1999), the main generalization is that only unergatives may exhibit multiple-person marking in raising constructions. On the other hand, all verbs show multiple marking of person features in control and causative clauses. The analysis hinges on the crucial assumption that a necessary precondition for the (multiple) occurrences of A-set morphemes is agreement between a probe on Aux and the highest accessible DP argument, such that multiple-person marking is simply the result of pronouncing all copies that bear nominative Case within a single A-movement chain.In Chapter 5, on history, I investigate the diachrony of multiple exponence in Crow. Although most occurrences of multiple exponence in Crow can be explained by grammaticalization of a lexical verb to a grammatical suffix, cases of multiple exponence that involve modal auxiliaries developed through different pathways. In particular, first I argue that multiple exponence observed across the set of modal auxiliaries originated with the grammaticalization of the motion verb *hii 'arrive there' as a future suffix -ii, retaining its agreement when it grammaticalized. Then, the inflectional future then served as the basis for the formation of modal auxiliaries -iimmaachi 'will, must', -iih 'may, might', and -iishdaachi 'should'. Finally, co-occurrence of person agreement on these modal auxiliaries was later extended to another modal -isshi 'feel like', for which cognates can be found across all Siouan languages-a distinct case of multiple exponence begetting additional multiple exponence.Chapter 1 outlines my positionality with regard to this dissertation, Chapter 2 is an introductory chapter that gives an overview of Crow, and a concluding Chapter 6 summarizes.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Linguistics.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Language.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Crow language

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Indigenous language

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Grammar

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Grammatical notions

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Siouan languages

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

University of California, Berkeley Linguistics

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-03A.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertation Abstract International

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소장사항  

202402 2024

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