Tallman Adam J.R., Auderset Sandra, Uchihara Hiroto (eds.) Constituency and convergence in the Americas

Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — iv, 812 p. — (Topics in Phonological Diversity 1). — ISBN 978-3-96110-437-6.This volume brings together studies on morphosyntactic and phonological constituency from a host of languages across the Americas. The study expands on previous multivariate typological work on phonological domains by simultaneously coding the results of morphosyntactic constituency tests. The descriptions are geared towards developing a typology of constituency and linguistic levels in both morphosyntactic and phonological domains. The multivariate approach adopted in this volume deconstructs constituency tests and phonological domains into cross-linguistically comparable variables applying and extending autotypology method to the domain of constituent structure. Current methodologies for establishing constituents have been criticized for containing an in-built selection bias, where the results and interpretation of tests are chosen or sampled in such a fashion that specific analyses are prejudged to be correct or false in a non-rigorous fashion. The papers of this volume develop novel methodology for reporting and coding constituency variables for language description and comparison that seeks to reign in selection bias allowing theories concerning the relationship between morphosyntactic and phonological constituent structure to be more severely tested.Introduction: Phonological and morphosyntactic constituency in cross-linguistic perspective - Adam J. R. Tallman.
Constituency in Cup’ik and the problem of holophrasis - Anthony C. Woodbury.
Constituency in Oklahoma Cherokee - Hiroto Uchihara.
Constituency and Wordhood in Kiowa - Taylor L. Miller.
Constituency in Ayautla Mazatec - Shun Nakamoto.
Constituency in Tù’un Ntá’ví (Mixtec) of San Martín Duraznos - Sandra Auderset, Carmen Hernández Martínez, Albert Ventayol-Boada.
Words as emergent constituents in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec - Ambrocio Gutiérrez, Hiroto Uchihara.
Constituency in Zenzontepec Chatino - Eric W. Campbell.
Constituency in Martinican (creole, Martinique) - Minella Duzerol.
Constituency in Hup: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives - Patience Epps.
Constituency in Yukuna - Magdalena Lemus Serrano.
Constituency in Mẽbêngôkre independent clauses - Andrés Pablo Salanova.
Graded constituency in the Araona (Takana) verb complex - Adam J. R. Tallman.
Word structure and constituency in Uma Piwra South Bolivian Quechua - Gladys Camacho Rios, Adam J. R. Tallman.
Wordhood in Chorote (Mataguayan) - Javier J. Carol.
Constituency in Northern Chaco Mocoví (Guaycuruan, Argentina) - Cristian R. Juárez.
Constituency and convergence in the Americas: Results and discussion - Sandra Auderset, Caroline de Becker, Gladys Camacho Rios, Eric W. Campbell, Javier J. Carol, Minella Duzerol, Patience Epps, Ambrocio Gutiérrez, Cristian R. Juárez, Magdalena Lemus Serrano, Stephen Francis Mann, Taylor L. Miller , Shun Nakamoto, Zoe Poirier Maruenda, Andrés Pablo Salanova, Hiroto Uchihara, Natalie Weber, Anthony C. Woodbury, Dennis Wylie, Adam J. R. Tallman.
Word domains, and what comes after - Kristine Hildebrandt.
Diagnosing phonological constituency - Taylor L. Miller.
Name index.