The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form

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Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm

Sabrina Bendjaballah Noam Faust Mohamed Lahrouchi Nicola Lampitelli(Editor)

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The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form
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Title page
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Table of contents
Introduction
1. Jean Lowenstamm, the teacher and the man
2. Jean Lowenstamm, the linguist
3. The form of structure, the structure of forms
3.1 Vowels
3.2 Syllables
3.3 Templates
3.4 The Phonology-Syntax interface
3.5 Selected issues in Afro-Asiatic syntax and semantics
References
Supervised PhD dissertations
Part 1. Vowels
Lowering harmony in Bantu
1. Introduction
2. A synopsis of Radical cv Phonology
3. Licensing
4. Lowering harmony in Bantu
4.1 Kikuyu
4.2 The unique case of Kimatuumbi
5. Conclusion
References
On vowel harmony and vowel reduction
1. Background
2. Things that might disturb the comparison
3. Morphological and phonological structures
3.1 Yukuben3
3.2 Mòoré
3.3 German
4. Vowel assimilation and "harmony"
4.1 Yukuben
4.2 Mòoré
4.3 German I-Umlaut
5. Vowel reduction
5.1 Yukuben
5.2 Mòoré
5.3 German
6. Similarities and differences
6.1 Strengthening of first-syllable vowels
6.2 Weakening of the second-syllable vowels
7. Discussion
7.1 The order of morphemes
7.2 Stress
7.3 Robustness
References
Notes
Apophony and chiming words in Malay
1. Introduction
2. Data
3. Analysis
3.1 Apophony and vowel alternation in Classical Arabic verbs
3.2 Apophony and chiming in Malay
3.3 Summary
4. Conclusion
References
Notes
Understanding what has happened with the ablaut
1. Bopp, Grimm and the first steps of comparative grammar
2. Bréal's presentation of Bopp's synthesis
3. Saussure's Dissertation and later work?
4. Baudouin de Courtenay and the "alternants"
5. Conclusion
References
Notes
Part 2. Syllables
On the licensing of glides
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 The constituent structure of Classical Arabic
2.2 The status of onsets
3. The active voice of Form I
4. Glide-initial verb roots and the licensing of glides
5. On structure preservation
6. Conclusion
References
Notes
Coda constraints on tone
1. Introduction
2. The issues
3. Stopped tones in Kuki-Chin
3.1 Stopped tones in Hakha Lai
3.2 Stopped tones in Kuki-Thaadow
3.3 Stopped tones in Falam Lai
4. Other cases
5. Summary
References
Notes
C/V interactions in strict CV
1. Introduction
2. The specificity of length
2.1 Typology
2.2 Positional markedness
2.3 Integrity
2.4 No compensatory lengthening
2.5 Templatic behaviour
2.6 CV as melodies
3. Additional evidence
3.1 "Schwa/zero" alternations
3.2 Lax checked vowels
3.3 Unreleased stops and the so-called "phonetic detail"
4. C/V interactions and 'lateral' phonology
References
Notes
What does the Moroccan Malhun meter compute, and how?
1. Introduction
2. An overview of the malhun tradition
3. A brief sketch of the MA syllabification system
4. The malhun's metical patterns generator
4.1 General
4.2 Characterization of a malhun metrical pattern
4.3 Alphabet and syntax of the malhun-MPs generator
4.4 Malhun poetic idiom's metrical wheel
4.5 Metrical embedding, complementarity and line's length
5. Lineation and rhyming
Summary
References
Notes
Part 3. Templates
Regularities in irregular Chaha verbs
1. The problem
2. Monoconsonantal verbs
2.1 Alternations of the Perfective
2.2 Alternations of the Imperative
2.3 Alternations of the Imperfective
2.4 Independence and assimilation: W?y?-m 'he descended' and n?y?-m 'he slept'
2.5 Quadrisyllabic shortening
3. Biconsonantal verbs
3.1 Alveolar versus alveopalatal alternation
3.2 [r] versus [y] alternation
4. Conclusion
References
Notes
Overlapping morphologies in Arabic hypocoristics
1. Introduction
2. Hypocoristic suffixes sounding like possessive suffixes
2.1 First person singular possessive suffix -i/-ti in Kuwaiti Arabic
2.2 Third person singular masculine possessive suffix -u
3. Other suffixed hypocoristics
3.1 Hypocoristics formed by suffixing -aat in Levantine Arabic
3.2 Hypocoristics formed by suffixing -iin in Kuwaiti Arabic
3.3 Hypocoristics formed by suffixing -aan in Kuwaiti Arabic
3.4 Hypocoristics formed by suffixing -uun in Kuwaiti Arabic
4. KA hypocoristics based on analogy with existing words or PNs
5. Conclusion
References
Notes
Staying away from the weak left edge
1. Introduction
2. Strength and strengthening
2.1 Segmental strength and positional strength
2.2 Strength and strengthening
3. The beginning of the hypocoristic
3.1 Deriving hypocoristics
3.2 The left edge
4. Gradient mis-anchoring in Hebrew hypocoristics
4.1 The left-edge parameter in Hebrew hypocoristics
4.2 Mis-anchoring and the strength hierarchy
5. Limitations on strengthening
References
Notes
The Modern Hebrew template tQuLa in light of Jean Lowenstamm's work
1. Introduction
2. The CV template of tQuLa is tripartite
3. Analyticity, the no-straddling government effect and the peculiarity of tQuLa
4. Phonology as the manifestation of morpho-syntactic structure
5. Conclusion
References
Notes
Templates and representations in phonology
1. Introduction
2. What is a template in acquisition and what is it good for
3. Templates and templatic behaviors in the acquisition of French
3.1 Spreading, reduplication and autosegmental representations
3.2 aCV patterns and morphological constraints on the early template
4. Conclusion: Why phonological representations are useful
References
Notes
On templates
0. Preface
1. Introduction: Can words be anything?
2. Is shape templaticity a general property of natural languages? A comparison of French, Mohawk and Semitic.
3. Gothic verb inflection
4. Conclusion: What are templates?
References
Notes
Part 4. The Phonology-Syntax interface
The Ins and Outs of phonology
1. Introduction
2. The Outs: What is not phonology
2.1 Contrast
2.2 Articulation
2.3 Diachrony
2.4 Morphological Alternations
2.5 Segments
3. The Ins: What is phonology
References
Notes
Phase cycles, f-cycles, and phonological (In)activity
1. Introduction
2. Phase cycles and (In)activity
3. Phonological behavior of inactive material
4. Towards a revised PIP
5. Phase cycles and f-cycles
6. Conclusions
References
Notes
Sepp vs Paradigms
1. Introduction
2. Initial facts
3. Morpho-phonological asymmetries
4. Semantic asymmetries
5. Conclusion
References
Notes
On Plurals, noun phrase and num(ber) in Moroccan Arabic and Djibouti Somali
1. Number in Moroccan Arabic nouns
2. Emphasis spread
3. Number in Somali
4. -yáal plurals in DJ
5. Conclusions
References
Notes
The initial CV
1. Introduction
2. Diacritic sleepers vs. phonologically meaningful objects
3. The initial CV parameterized: Languages may or may not have it
3.1 Stable cross-linguistic effects disqualify diacritics
3.2 Three for the price of one
4. Predictions made by the parameterisation of the initial CV
5. The initial CV is not recorded in the lexical entry of its host
5.1 The initial CV must not be a sleeper
5.2 (Non-) privativity: an echo of SPE
5.3 The initial CV is online-created information
6. The initial and other CVs
6.1 Carriers of morpho-syntactic information reduce to syllabic space
6.2 CV units that have been found to carry morpho-syntactic information
References
Notes
Part 5. Selected Issues in Afro-Asiatic (Morpho-)Syntax and Semantics
Causatives, anticausatives and lexicalization
1. Introduction
2. Lexicalization
3. Causatives
4. Anticausatives
5. Anticausativization, reflexivization and internal causation
6. "Walk"
7. Conclusions
References
Notes
A note on labeling, Berber states and VSO order
1. The Construct State in Berber
2. Labeling
3. The construct state is the shape of a noun merged with K.
4. Conclusion
References
Notes
The interpretation of Construct-State morphology
References
Notes
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