Open AccessMorpheme Order Constraints Upside Down: Verticality and Other Directions
Author(s) -
Caroline Imbert
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual meeting of the berkeley linguistics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2377-1666
pISSN - 0363-2946
DOI - 10.3765/bls.v39i1.3895
Subject(s) - burmese , morpheme , linguistics , mandarin chinese , deixis , path (computing) , order (exchange) , computer science , philosophy , finance , economics , programming language
In lieu of an abstract, here is an excerpt:This paper addresses a selection of languages which exhibits morphosyntactic structures that formally have little in common: Burmese and Arakanese (Tibeto-Burmese), Popti’ (Mayan), Homeric Greek (Indo-European) and Mandarin Chinese (Sinitic). However, they all seem to organize the surface order of their Path-encoding elements according to two conceptual distinctions: (a) the Axiality or non-Axiality of Path, and (b) Deixis.