Abstracts Language, Literature, and Linguistic

Reduplication in Klallam: A description of the morphology-phonology interface

by Anne Crawford

Klallam (Salishan) makes extensive use of reduplication, a morphological process in which a base is copied in part or in whole and then attached to that base in order to give it either grammatical inflection or a new derivational meaning. As is the case with many morphological processes, reduplication is also conditioned by phonology and cross-linguistic markedness constraints, influencing everything from what is available as the base in partial reduplication to reduplicated surface forms that do not demonstrate a simple copy-and-attach procedure. This study first outlines those phonological patterns in Klallam that are particularly relevant to reduplication processes, including the description of two epenthetic processes not currently described in the literature. Using Montler???s Klallam Dictionary (2012) as a source of data and his Klallam Grammar (2015) as a source for some of the basic explanations of reduplicative processes, it then extends these descriptions. In the end, this study refines understanding of the description for four of the eight total processes, adds allomorphs for two more processes, and adds a description for one of the eight processes that was previously undescribed, the Distributive. It also adds a description of multiple reduplication in Klallam for the first time. In all of these, an extensive discussion of the interplay between phonological processes and morphological processes is given, showing the interconnectedness of these two linguistic systems. This in-depth study of reduplication in Klallam reveals that, while the reduplicants are generally unmarked in shape, marked shapes are allowed in certain environments. Finally, suggestions for further research are offered, such as investigations into both the occurrence of and possible motivations for marked shapes in Klallam reduplicants, possible areal effects in the Northwest Coast linguistic area, and the documentation of ???New Klallam,??? as the language is now no longer spoken as a first language but is exclusively learned as a second language. Advisors/Committee Members: Scholten, Christina G (advisor), Luna, Kenneth V (committee member).