Open AccessA lexical account of Sorani Kurdish prepositions
Author(s) -
Pollet Samvelian
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2007.14
Subject(s) - realization (probability) , complement (music) , clitic , affix , linguistics , pronoun , computer science , morpheme , simple (philosophy) , mathematics , argument (complex analysis) , variety (cybernetics) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , biochemistry , statistics , chemistry , epistemology , complementation , gene , phenotype
In Sorani Kurdish dialects, the complement of a preposition can generally be realized either as asyntactic item (NP, independent pronoun or PP) or a bound personal morpheme (clitic/affix). However,the affixal realization of the complement gives rise to a range of specific phenomena. First, someprepositions display two different phonological forms depending on the realization of theircomplement: the variant combining with a syntactic item is referred to as ˋsimple', while thevariant combining with an affixal complement is called ˋabsolute'. Furthermore, unlike syntacticcomplements, which are always realized locally, the affixal complement of an absolute prepositioncan have a non-local realization, attaching to a host with which it has no morphosyntacticrelations. In order to deal with these facts, this paper proposes a classification of Soraniprepositions along two lines: the affixal versus non-affixal realization of the complement on theone hand and its local versus non-local realization on the other hand. All cases of non-localrealization receive a lexical account, either in terms of argument composition or in terms oflinearization constraints on domain objects.