The Morphosyntax-Phonology Connection: Locality and Directionality at the Interface

by Vera Gribanova (Editor), Stephanie S. Shih (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this volume address a core question regarding the structure of linguistic systems: how much access do the grammatical components - syntax, morphology and phonology - have to each other? The book's fifteen essays make a powerful argument in favor of a particular view of the interaction of these various components, shedding light on the nature of locality domains for allomorph selection, the morphosyntactic properties of the targets of phonological exponence, and adjudicating between competing theories of morphosyntaxphonology interaction. These words incorporate insights from recent theoretical developments such as Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology, and insights made available to us by contemporary empirical methodologies, including field work and experimental and corpus-based quantitative work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190210304
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/01/2016
Pages:	482
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 16.80(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Vera Gribanova is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Her research explores the principles that connect word and sentence structure to (morpho-)phonological structure, primarily in Russian, Bulgarian and Uzbek.

Stephanie S. Shih is an Assistant Professor in Cognitive & Information Sciences at University of California, Merced. Her research centers on understanding how sound patterns interface with the larger linguistic and cognitive system, as informed by quantitative, corpus-based approaches to the study of natural language.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Global Optimization in Allomorph Selection: Two case studies
Alan C. L. Yu

2. Outwards-sensitive phonologically-conditioned allomorphy in Nez Perce
Amy Rose Deal and Matthew Wolf

3. Locality and Directionality in Inward-Sensitive Allomorphy: Russian and Bulgarian
Vera Gribanova and Boris Harizanov

4. Locality Conditions on Suppletive Verbs in Hiaki
Heidi Harley, Mercedes Tubino, and Jason D. Haugen

5. Global Effects in Kashaya Prosodic Structure
Eugene Buckley

6. Stress, Phrasing, and Auxiliary Contraction in English
Arto Anttila

7. The Role of Prosody in Clitic Placement
Draga Zec and Dusica Filipovic-Durdevic

8. Prosodic Well-formedness and Comparative Grammaticality: Morphology and Periphrasis in the English Comparative
Matthew E. Adams

9. Phonological influences in syntactic alternations
Stephanie S. Shih

10. On the Targets of Phonological Realization
David Embick

11. The Directionality and Locality of Allomorphic Conditioning in Optimal Construction Morphology
Sharon Inkelas

12. Declension Class and the Norwegian Definite Suffix
Peter Svenonius

13. The Morphology of the Basque Auxiliary: Thoughts on Arregi & Nevins 2012
Paul Kiparsky

14. Presyntactic Morphology or Postsyntactic Morphology and Explanatoriness in the Basque Auxiliary
Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins

15. Diachronic Sources of Allomorphy
Mary Paster

Afterword
Sharon Inkelas