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Inflectional Paradigms: Content and Form at the Syntax-Morphology Interface

Stump, G. T. (2016). Cambridge University Press

Stump builds the canonical inflectional paradigm on Corbett's canonical inflection, in which Turkish ADAM and TAVAN inflect canonically once vowel harmony, which spells one genitive suffix two ways, is set aside. Deviations from the canonical isomorphism of content and form are property mappings of a paradigm linkage: the Latin deponent cōnārī realizes its active cells with the passive endings that parāre keeps for its passive, and in Kashmiri the indefinite past of WUP and the recent past of WUPH inflect alike through morphomes that two conjugations map differently. Suppletion is an alternation between independent stems, and the heteroclite PRAMEN of Stump's earlier analysis has such stems.

Implementation notes

The Latin cells are abstracted to voice and agreement, with the inflection-class index and tense, aspect and mood held constant, and no realizations are attached to the Latin linkages. The Kashmiri forms and their stem-plus-suffix segmentation are the book's display of Grierson's paradigms, with the first person singular masculine exponents only. The Kashmiri property mappings act property by property, which agrees with the book's mappings on every property set with a single tense.

References

Declarations

L45–49
L51–55
L57–63
L78–83

Kashmiri morphomic tense (Ch. 8, pp. 217ff)

L172–174
L176–179
L239

Canonical inflection (Ch. 2)

ADAM and TAVAN inflect canonically, each with one stem across its cells, with distinct stems, distinct suffixes in distinct cells and the same suffixes in corresponding cells (Tables 2.1 to 2.3).

theorem turkish_isCanonicalL290–301

Built from

The genitive suffix -(n)In is the same after ADAM and after EV 'house', but vowel harmony spells it -ın and -in, so the paradigms share their inflectional marking only below vowel harmony (fn. 1).

theorem genitive_harmonyL309–317

Suppletion (Ch. 11)