The Prosody-Morphology Interface
Published on 10. June 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
454 pages
978-0-521-15341-6 (ISBN)
Description
In many languages, word-formation is restricted by principles of prosody that organise speech into larger units such as the syllable. Written by an international team of leading linguists in the field of prosodic morphology, this book examines a range of key issues in the interaction of word-formation and prosody. It provides an explanation for non-concatenative morphology which occurs in different forms (such as reduplication) in many languages, by an interaction of independent general principles of prosodic and morphological well-formedness. Surveying developments in the field from the 1970s, the book describes the general transition in linguistic theory from rule-based approaches into constraint-based ones, and most of the contributions are written from the perspective of Optimality Theory, a rapidly developing theory of constraint interaction in generative grammar.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
732 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-15341-6 (9780521153416)
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Content
Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction Rene Kager and Wim Zonneveld; 2. On the moraic representation of underlying geminates: evidence from prosodic morphology Stuart Davis; 3. Verbal reduplication in three Bantu languages Laura J. Downing; 4. Prosodic morphology and tone: the case of Chichewa Larry M. Hyman and Al Mtenje; 5. Exceptional stress-attracting suffixes in Turkish: representations versus the grammar Sharon Inkelas; 6. Realignment Junko Ito and Armin Mester; 7. Faithfulness and identity in prosodic morphology John J. McCarthy and Alan S. Prince; 8. Austronesian nasal substitution and other N?C effects Joe Pater; 9. The prosodic base of the Hausa plural Sam Rosenthall; 10. Prosodic optimality and prefixation in Polish Grazyna Rowicka; 11. Double reduplications in parallel Suzanne Urbanczyk; Index of subject; Index of constraints; Index of language; Index of names.