Schedule 78. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft

Portmanteau agreement, where an affix seems to encode phi features of multiple arguments (both subject and object), is a challenge for existing theories of morphology. I propose an analysis where apparent portmanteau agreement markers only encode phi features of one argument (either the object or the subject) and the fact that their distribution depends on phi features of the respective other argument is an epiphenomenon of the order of morphological operations. This analysis works whenever the ``contextual" distribution of a portmanteau marker can be analysed as a split in two, e.g. an apparent portmanteau agreement marker can be reanalysed as an object marker that occurs with 3rd person subjects but not elsewhere. However, not all portmanteau agreement markers can be straightforwardly analysed in such a way. In this talk, I show challenges posed by portmanteau agreement markers in Itelmen (Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Russia), Kiowa (Kiowa-Tanoan, USA) and Aymara (isolate, Bolivia/Peru/Chile).

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Day: 2025-11-13
Start time: 16:30
Duration: 00:30
Room: M11.32
Track: Theoretical Linguistics
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