Rachel Nordlinger

Uncovering ergative use in Murrinhpatha: Evidence from experimental data

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-01-2023

DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2023.2222086

Why we need a gradient approach to word order

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Date: 25-04-2023

DOI: 10.1515/LING-2021-0098

Abstract: This article argues for a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order preferences, both within and across languages, as a continuous variable. Word order variability should be regarded as a basic assumption, rather than as something exceptional. Although this approach follows naturally from the emergentist usage-based view of language, we argue that it can be beneficial for all frameworks and linguistic domains, including language acquisition, processing, typology, language contact, language evolution and change, and formal approaches. Gradient approaches have been very fruitful in some domains, such as language processing, but their potential is not fully realized yet. This may be due to practical reasons. We discuss the most pressing methodological challenges in corpus-based and experimental research of word order and propose some practical solutions.

Case stacking in realizational morphology

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Date: 2006

DOI: 10.1515/LING.2006.016

Tense Beyond the Verb: Encoding Clausal Tense/Aspect/Mood on Nominal Dependents

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 08-2004

DOI: 10.1023/B:NALA.0000027720.41506.FE

From prefixes to suffixes

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Date: 15-12-2006

DOI: 10.1075/DIA.23.2.04HAR

Abstract: This article provides a counterex le to the commonly held, if unexamined, proposition that morphemes reconstructed as affixes do not change their position with respect to the root. We do not expect to find that a proto-prefix has suffix reflexes, nor that a proto-suffix has prefix reflexes. In this paper we show, through detailed reconstruction, that paradigms of class/case suffixes in a number of Northern Australian languages derive historically from a paradigm of proto-prefixes, through the encliticization and reduction of prefixed demonstratives to nominals. This process has only left a few traces of the demonstrative stems in the synchronic forms.

Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Date: 22-04-2010

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511712234.009

Valency mismatches and the coding of reciprocity in Australian languages

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Date: 19-01-2007

DOI: 10.1515/LINGTY.2007.033

Australia Loves Language Puzzles: The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 12-2014

DOI: 10.1111/LNC3.12096

Why we need a gradient approach to word order

Publisher: Center for Open Science

Date: 13-05-2021

DOI: 10.31234/OSF.IO/YG9BF

Abstract: This paper argues for a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order preferences, both within and across languages, as a continuous variable. Word order variability should be regarded as a basic assumption, rather than as something exceptional. Although this approach follows naturally from the emergentist usage-based view of language, we argue that it can be beneficial for all frameworks and linguistic domains, including language acquisition, processing, typology, language contact, language evolution and change, variationist linguistics and formal approaches. Gradient approaches have been very fruitful in some domains, such as language processing, but their potential is not fully realized yet. This may be due to practical reasons. We discuss the most pressing methodological challenges in corpus-based and experimental research of word order and propose some solutions and best practices.

When is a temporal marker not a tense?: Reply to Tonhauser 2007

Publisher: Project MUSE

Date: 2008

DOI: 10.1353/LAN.0.0013

The Acquisition of Polysynthetic Languages

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 02-2014

DOI: 10.1111/LNC3.12062

Lexical‐Functional Grammar: Interactions Between Morphology and Syntax

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 04-2011

DOI: 10.1002/9781444395037.CH3

Nominal juxtaposition in Australian languages: An LFG analysis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 30-09-2009

DOI: 10.1017/S002222670999020X

Abstract: It is well known that Australian languages make heavy use of nominal juxtaposition in a wide variety of functions, but there is little discussion in the theoretical literature of how such juxtapositions should be analysed. We discuss a range of data from Australian languages illustrating how multiple nominals share a single grammatical function within the clause. We argue that such constructions should be treated syntactically as set-valued grammatical functions in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). Sets as values for functions are well-established in LFG and are used in the representation of adjuncts, and also in the representation of coordination. In many Australian languages, coordination is expressed asyndetically, that is, by nominal juxtaposition with no overt coordinator at all. We argue that the syntactic similarity of all juxtaposed constructions (ranging from coordination through a number of more appositional relations) motivates an analysis in which they are treated similarly in the syntax, but suitably distinguished in the semantics. We show how this can be achieved within LFG, providing a unified treatment of the syntax of juxtaposition in Australian languages and showing how the interface to the semantics can be quite straightforwardly defined in the modular LFG approach.

Bridging Australian Indigenous language learner’s guides with SLA materials development frameworks

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 04-09-2021

DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2021.1970179

Transitivity in Murrinh-Patha

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Date: 29-11-2011

DOI: 10.1075/SL.35.3.08NOR

Abstract: In this paper I discuss transitivity in Murrinh-Patha, a non-Pama-Nyungan polysynthetic language from northern Australia. I survey the range of bivalent clauses in Murrinh-Patha and their morphosyntactic properties, and consider their analysis in terms of definitions of transitivity in the cross-linguistic literature. I argue that syntactic definitions of transitivity, while compatible with the Murrinh-Patha data, are empirically unrevealing since they provide little account for the varying morphosyntactic properties of different bivalent constructions. Instead, I show that the morphosyntax of bivalent constructions in Murrinh-Patha is sensitive to the semantic features of the participants, supporting a prototype approach to transitivity (such as those proposed by Hopper and Thompson 1980 and Næss 2007).

The Tense, Aspect and Modality System in Murrinh-Patha

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 2012

DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2012.657754

Positional dependency in Murrinhpatha: expanding the typology of non-canonical morphotactics

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Date: 2021

DOI: 10.1515/LINGVAN-2020-0079

Abstract: Principles of morphotactics are a major source of morphological ersity amongst the world’s languages, and it is well-known that languages exhibit many different types of deviation from a canonical ideal in which there is a unique and consistent mapping between function and form. In this paper we present data from Murrinhpatha (non-Pama-Nyungan, northern Australia) that demonstrates a type of non-canonical morphotactics so far unattested in the literature, one which we call positional dependency . This type is unusual in that the non-canonical pattern is driven by morphological form rather than by morphosyntactic function. In this case the realisation of one morph is dependent on the position in the verbal template of another morph. Thus, it is the linearisation of morphs that conditions the morphological realisation, not the morphosyntactic feature set. Positional dependency in Murrinhpatha thus expands our typology of content-form interactions and non-canonical morphotactics with implications for our understanding of morphological structure cross-linguistically.

Verbal morphology in Murrinh-Patha: evidence for templates

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 09-09-2010

DOI: 10.1007/S11525-010-9184-Z

University Of Melbourne

Location: Australia

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Stanford University

Location: United States of America

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ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT100100746

Start Date: 2011

End Date: 12-2015

Amount: $811,142.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0343354

Start Date: 2003

End Date: 12-2006

Amount: $250,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

ARC Centres Of Excellence - Grant ID: CE140100041

Start Date: 08-2014

End Date: 12-2022

Amount: $28,000,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP110100961

Start Date: 2011

End Date: 06-2018

Amount: $439,014.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Equipment And Facilities Upgrade For Asia Pacific And Regional Archive For Digital Sources In Endangered Cultures

Start Date: 2011

End Date: 2011

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0984419

Start Date: 07-2009

End Date: 09-2014

Amount: $719,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0566965

Start Date: 12-2005

End Date: 12-2007

Amount: $100,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE110100142

Start Date: 06-2011

End Date: 12-2011

Amount: $238,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

From Little Things, Big Things Grow: How Children Learn A Morphologically Complex Australian Indigenous Language

Start Date: 2011

End Date: 2015

Funder: Australian Research Council

Sharing Access And Analytical Tools For Ethnographic Digital Media Using High Speed Networks

Start Date: 2005

End Date: 2006

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210102836

Start Date: 04-2021

End Date: 03-2024

Amount: $321,616.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP140100806

Start Date: 06-2015

End Date: 11-2019

Amount: $405,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council