Lecture: Effects of Impoverishment and Obliteration in Morphology

The aftermath of destruction

In my talk I will lay out the different effects of the morphological operation Impoverishment and Obliteration. I will share insights from theoretical approaches to Impoverishment and Obliterations that have been introduced in the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM) Since approaches to Impoverishment & Obliteration have been made plentiful in DM, I will try to focus on just a few approaches.
The goal of this talk is to introduce the concept of these operations and how they are used to account for very different phenomena.

I will focus on the effects that both operations have been assumed to account for.
One such approach made by Harley (2008) is used to account for a meta-syncretism in Latin dative and ablative plural case exponents.
I will continue talking about her approach to Baoan case syncretisms, a peculiar case where Impoverishment offers an elegant way of solving a problem of high effort.
Next I will try to lay out Arregi & Nevins (2012) approaches to Participant Dissimilation and show how both Impoverishment and Obliteration are used here to account for these effects and also how the parallelism of these operations gives rise to an elegant solution of dialectal variation.

References:
Bonet, Eulalia (1991): Morphology after syntax: Pronominal clitics in Romance. MIT.
=> Often credited as the first proposal of Impoverishment
Harley, Heidi (2008): When is a syncretism more than a syncretism? Impoverishment, Metasyncretism, and underspecification. Phi-theory: Phi-Features across modules and interfaces pp.251-294.
Arregi, Karlos and Andrew Nevins (2012): Morphotactics: Basque auxiliaries and the structure of spellout. Vol. 86, Springer Science & Business Media.
=> Extensive Application of Impoverishment and Obliteration in DM on Basque Auxiliaries.
Keine, Stefan and Gereon Müller (2020): ‘Impoverishment’. From Lingbuzz: lingbuzz/005025.
=> Review of different proposals of Impoverishment and well written introductory paper for Impoverishment.

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Day: 2022-05-26
Start time: 15:30
Duration: 00:30
Room: Schuurman (1.22)
Track: Theoretical Linguistics
Language: en

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