Linguistics Department Colloquium:

Lewis Gebhardt (Northeastern Illinois University)

“The Crow Determiner Phrase In a Mostly Configurational Language”

Abstract: Crow, a polysynthetic incorporating language, exhibits high configurationality in its nominal phrases. The elements in the extended NP are not only linearly arranged as in languages like English, though in mirror image, but they are also hierarchically organized as predicted within standard theories of the structure of the determiner phrase. Perhaps not surprising, since the Crow clause is configurational, though the V itself shows some evidence of nonconfigurationality.