A Study of Seediq Pronouns
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Ochiai, Izumi
Abstract
Seediq participant manifestations with pronouns are intricate. They possess two types: bound forms and free forms. Bound forms are further categorized into two cases, nominative and genitive. In actor voice only nominative can appear, while in undergoer voices maximally two bound pronouns, nominative and genitive, are available. The behaviors of bound pronouns have been discussed to a certain extent (Chang 1997, 1999), but extensive accounts of bound pronouns are scarce. Chang claims that bound pronouns should be regarded as agreement affixes, contra to prevailing clitic analysis among Austronesianists. The aim of this study is to further elaborate upon the complex Seediq pronominal system. irst, bound pronouns in fact demonstrate both features of pronominal clitics and agreement affix. Clitic analysis is favored by phenomena such as second position, freedom of movement and host selection, and less prosodic integrity, whereas agreement analysis is favored by phenomena such as arbitrary gaps and morphophonological alternations. With these features, they may be regarded as registration of both pronominal clitic and agreement. This idea is further supported by clitic doubling and climbing constructions and the optionality of bound pronouns. ext, Seediq clitics pronouns, bound or free, have as many as three patterns of manifestations: portmanteau forms, double clitic patterns, and single clitic pattern. In portmanteau forms, genitive and nominative clitics are fused into one form in that order with genitive preceding nominative. Double clitic patterns realize two clitic pronouns in the order of nominative appearing before genitive, contrary to the order of portmanteau forms. In single clitic patterns, a genitive element is expressed by a clitic, while a nominative argument is expressed by a free form.
Subjects
Seediq
clitic
free form
agreement
portmanteau form
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