The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory (Linguistics Today)

Ben Hermans; Marc van Oostendorp

ISBN 10: 9027227497 / ISBN 13: 9789027227492

Verlag: John Benjamins, 1999

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Hardcover, viii + 321 pages, NOT ex-library. ISBN 1556199120 & 9027227497 (both listed). Mildly used, interior is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear, faint shelfwear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) have significantly altered phonologists' views on the nature of derivations and their role in linguistic theory. Earlier frameworks of generative phonology were characterized by a fairly complicated theory of derivations, involving lexical levels, the cycle, and intrinsic and extrinsic rule ordering, among other things. OT in its standard form, on the other hand, represents a minimalist theory of derivations, recognizing only a direct mapping from input to output. This volume addresses questions from many different points of view by a number of outstanding scholars: Is this minimal theory sufficiently well-equipped to deal with the empirical complications of natural language or do we need a larger 'derivational residue' in our theory? What are the relevant facts and how can we deal with them? Are there any reasons to think that an OT-based approach to derivations may even be more successful than its rule-based competitors? The book also features an introduction into the general issues involved and an extensive bibliography. -- Contents: Introduction: Optimality Theory and Derivational Effects / Marc van Oostendorp & Ben Hermans; Head Dependence in Stress-Epenthesis Interaction / John Alderete; Unrecoverable Origins / Mary M. Bradshaw; Uniformity in Extended Paradigms / Eugene Buckley; Directionality Constraints on Derivation? / Matthew Y. Chen; Alignment and the Cycle are Different / San Duanmu; Stricture is Structure / Chris Golston & Harry van der Hulst; Phonological Restructuring in Yidin and its Theoretical Consequences / Bruce Hayes; Surface Opacity of Metrical Structure in Optimality Theory / René Kager; Sign-Based Morphology: A Declarative Theory of Phonology-Morphology Interleaving / Cemil Orhan Orgun; Derivationalism in Kikamba Vowel Hiatus Phenomena / Rosalind Ruth Roberts-Kohno; References; Language Index; Name Index; Subject Index.

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• Titel: The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory (Linguistics Today)
• Verlag: John Benjamins
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9027227497
• ISBN-13: 9789027227492
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) have significantly altered phonologists' views on the nature of derivations and their role in linguistic theory. Earlier frameworks of generative phonology were characterized by a fairly complicated theory of derivations, involving lexical levels, the cycle, and intrinsic and extrinsic rule ordering, among other things. OT in its standard form, on the other hand, represents a minimalist theory of derivations, recognizing only a direct mapping from input to output. This volume addresses questions from many different points of view by a number of outstanding scholars: Is this minimal theory sufficiently well-equipped to deal with the empirical complications of natural language or do we need a larger 'derivational residue' in our theory? What are the relevant facts and how can we deal with them? Are there any reasons to think that an OT-based approach to derivations may even be more successful than its rule-based competitors? The book also features an introduction into the general issues involved and an extensive bibliography.