Rice on Athapaskan Verb Chapts 1, 2 , 7 and 8
Note: the inexplicable 'G' in the first few examples from Ahtna in
chapter 7 stands for an affix that Kari calls 'Gender', something that
Rice treats elsewhere as a noun classifier. Basically, these verbs
require a classifier prefix that agrees with whatever their internal
argument is — if you're roasting a round thing, you'd use G prefix A,
if you're roasting a long skinny thing, you'd use G prefix B, etc. Kari
includes 'G' with the lexical entry for the verb because not all Ahtna
verbs require the use of such a prefix, only some do.
1. What morphological process is described as both characteristic of templatic morphology and difficult for a templatic account to deal with?
2. Hupa is a good example of a
language
where the two voice markers Rice describes — causative and middle —
appear
to behave compositionally with respect to each other. Because of the
morphophonemics
of the lg, the two never show up overtly together. Which Hupa examples
show that combining the middle with a causative produces a different
result
than combining the causative with the middle? What problem for the
templatic
approach does Rice perceive in these facts?
3. Give one pair of verbs for which their co-occurence with the -d marker or the £-marker (sorry, that's the closest I can get to the voicless-l symbol in html) is not compositional — that is, that show these valence/voice markers aren't always doing the semantically compositional job that they're does elsewhere, but are sometimes just the product of a morphological subcategorization.