No meeting, simply a hang out

Tom Trigg: “Towards a typology of reconstruction effects” Isa Solá-Llonch: “Verbal prefixes in San Cristóbal Lachirioag Zapotec” Kerri Devlin:  “Deriving Adjunction”.

Zhuo Chen and Blake Lehman: An Argument analysis of cognate objects in Dschang (Yemba)) Colin Brown and Harold Torrence: Predicate Focus doubling in Dschang: implications for Clausal Syntax.

My research focuses (in part) on the question to what extent morphological generalizations can be accounted for in terms of purely syntactic operations and conditions. In this talk I will present a case study and reanalysis of the morpheme orders in Huave (San Francisco del Mar), a language isolate spoken in Oaxaca. Its variable morpheme order has been argued in various papers by Yuni Kim (2008, 2010, 2015) to be driven by the phonology. I will show that a syntactic…