Full Description
This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains — phonology, morphology and syntax — aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.
The book is divided in 5 parts: vowels, syllables, templates, syntax-morphology interface and Afro-Asiatic languages. Specific topics are the internal structure of vowels and its relation to harmony; the logic of recurrent vocalic patterns; syllabic prominence; the interaction of syllabic and templatic structure and segmental realization; the innateness of templates and paradigms; the limits of phonology; and various morpho-syntactic implications on phonological form.
The volume renders homage to Jean Lowenstamm's work, by underlining the importance of seeking structural and intermodular insight in the study of linguistic form.
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Part 1. Vowels; 3. Lowering harmony in Bantu: An RcvP account (by Hulst, Harry van der); 4. On vowel harmony and vowel reduction: Some observations on canonical shapes of disyllabic nouns in Yukuben, Moore and German* (by Rennison, John R.); 5. Apophony and chiming words in Malay (by Boye, Gilles); 6. Understanding what has happened with the ablaut: A chapter from linguistics (by Bergounioux, Gabriel); 7. Part 2. Syllables; 8. On the licensing of glides (by Guerssel, Mohand); 9. Coda constraints on tone (by Hyman, Larry M.); 10. C/V interactions in strict CV (by Carvalho, Joaquim Brandao de); 11. What does the Moroccan Malhun meter compute, and how? (by Elmedlaoui, Mohamed); 12. Part 3. Templates; 13. Regularities in irregular Chaha verbs (by Banksira, Degif Petros); 14. Overlapping morphologies in Arabic hypocoristics (by Prunet, Jean-Francois); 15. Staying away from the weak left edge: A strengthening strategy (by Bat-El, Outi); 16. The Modern Hebrew template tQuLa in light of Jean Lowenstamm's work (by Faust, Noam); 17. Templates and representations in phonology: from Semitic to child language (by Wauquier, Sophie); 18. On templates (by Kihm, Alain); 19. Part 4. The Phonology-Syntax interface; 20. The Ins and Outs of phonology (by Kaye, Jonathan); 21. Phase cycles, phi-cycles, and phonological (In)activity (by Embick, David); 22. Sepp vs Paradigms (by Bendjaballah, Sabrina); 23. On Plurals, noun phrase and num(ber) in Moroccan Arabic and Djibouti Somali (by Lahrouchi, Mohamed); 24. The initial CV: Herald of a non-diacritic interface theory (by Scheer, Tobias); 25. Part 5. Selected Issues in Afro-Asiatic (Morpho-)Syntax and Semantics; 26. Causatives, anticausatives and lexicalization (by Ouhalla, Jamal); 27. A note on labeling, Berber states and VSO order (by Shlonsky, Ur); 28. The interpretation of Construct-State morphology (by Doron, Edit); 29. Index
