A Nanosyntactic Analysis of Spatial Cases in Tsez
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper provides an analysis of spatial cases in Tsez. I propose a novel (more detailed) segmentation of the forms, which differs from traditional accounts (Comrie & Polinsky 1998, Radkevich 2010, Sveno- nius 2010, Abdulaev 2011, Polinsky 2015). The new decomposition entails that expected Place markers drop in the locative/allative cell of the proximal paradigm. I analyse this as an instance of P-drop (stay (at) home), and show how P-drop can be modelled in Nanosyntax, building on Pantcheva (2011). I further show that under Pantcheva’s decompo- sition, contextual allomorphy rules cannot capture the facts (building on Christopoulos & Zompi 2023 and Caha 2024). |
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