535 Assignment 5

Halle and Marantz on Potowatami continued...

Due: Tuesday, Feb. 3rd

 (Terminological aside: "preterit" = fancy way of saying "past tense"...)
 

Re-look at the forms in examples 39 and 40 on page 155, and the discussion surrounding these examples.

Write out the vocabulary item(s) proposed in H&M's analysis for the following Agr2 feature bundles.

 (Recall: a VI consists of a bundle of morphosyntactic features on the left, a double-headed arrow, then on the right the phonological form(s) that will show up to realize these feature bundles, if necessary followed by a slash and  any conditioning environment relevant for that particular phonological form. Write a separate VI with a conditioning environment for any bundle that exhibits morphologically triggered allomorphy (but don't write a separate VI for versions of forms that show up later after being adjusted by readjustment rules)

1.    1, pl, ACC                               (hint: discussion top 157)

2.    1, pl

3.    -Obv, pl                                   (hint: discussion bottom 157-158)

(note: there seems to be a general process of /u/ epenthesis&deletion going on, so mn/mun, k/uk, n/un pairs are surface forms of the same underlying vocab entries)