November 13th Colloquium: Summer Fellowship Presentations

Borui Zhang & Brandon Kieffer
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Borui Zhang: A corpus-based approach to exploring embedding verbs in Nepal Bhasa

As a part of my thesis research project on complementation in Nepal Bhasa, I use a corpus-based approach to explore the complementation patterns in other typologically related languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, and some parts of Turkish) under the universal dependencies framework (Nivre et al.,2017). Corpus sources can provide larger scaled data and may assist in the linguistic analysis of endangered languages. The representation of tree nodes and hierarchical structures in treebanks are not always intuitive to fieldworkers. I will discuss how main clause embedding verbs and dependent clauses are annotated in the treebank corpora. Understanding how general linguistic (or language-specific) features reflected in the treebanks helps to make sense of the framework, and extract the desired patterns.

Brandon Kieffer: Kinyarwanda Verbal Morphophonology

In Bantu phonology, there is a process called imbrication. It refers to a variety of different phonological processes, all caused by a historical “superclose” vowel. In Kinyarwanda, imbrication is realized as a system of coalescence. The coalescence system is between the root and suffixes, and also between suffixes. For most phoneme input pairs, the coalesced output is the same, irrelevant of morphemic makeup. For some phonemes however, most notably /ɾ/, determining the output of the coalescence is dependent on where in the tree the suffixes attach. This is because the morphemes can be split into two categories, voice morphemes, and aspectual morphemes, and a phase boundary in between them prevents certain coalescent outputs.

 

 

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