Open AccessDeriving full repetition in Blackfoot with additive focus
Author(s) -
Meagan Louie
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5951
pISSN - 2163-5943
DOI - 10.3765/salt.v0i20.2553
Subject(s) - predicate (mathematical logic) , event (particle physics) , focus (optics) , morpheme , repetition (rhetorical device) , computer science , antecedent (behavioral psychology) , linguistics , natural language processing , psychology , programming language , philosophy , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , optics
I argue that Blackfoot’s method of marking repetition, mattsista’- consists of two morphemes, matt- and ista’-. While both encode an additional event, matt-’s event is restricted only to being a focus alternative to the asserted event, leaving predicate identity and temporal precedence to be encoded by ista’-. I propose that ista’-’s event variable requires a linguistically encoded antecedent which matt-’s event acts as, deriving the fact that mattsista’- has a focus-sensitive interpretation.