Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins

Salish languages and linguistics : theoretical and descriptive perspectives

The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

Verbalizing suffixes and the structure of the Polish verb

The Polish Verb is a complex morphological entity, encoding distinctions in Perfective and Imperfective aspect, Past, Present, and Future tense, Person/Number/Gender agreement and finite versus nonfinite categories in addition to the lexical meaning carried by the Root or Stem on which it is based. The standard analysis of the forms and order of most of the affixes which occur in Polish Verbal morphology is based on the structure of the Slavic Verb Word first postulated for Russian by Jakobson (1948) and for Polish by Schenker (1954). The Jakobsonian analysis of the Polish Verb Word is given in (1):

Salish languages and linguistics

\begin{gathered} Jakobsonian Verb Word \hfill \\ \Pr efix + \surd ROOT + VS + TM + P/N \hfill \\ \surd ROOT = Root or derived Verb Stem TM = Tense marker, Infinitive, Participle \hfill \\ VS = Verbalizing Suffix P/N = Agreement (person, number, gender) \hfill \\ \end{gathered}

Cyclicity and stress in Moses-Columbia Salish (Nxa'amxcin)

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