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Inflectional Identity
Edited by Asaf Bachrach and Andrew Nevins
384 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-921964-3
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Paperback
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24 January 2008
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- Compares Distributed Morphology and Optimality Theory
- Of key current interest in linguistics and cognitive science
- Authors include the leading figures in the field
- Throws new light on the syntax, morphology, and phonology interfaces
- Includes case studies on a wide range of languages
A recurrent issue in linguistic theory and psychology concerns the cognitive status of memorized lists and their internal structure. In morphological theory, the collections of inflected forms of a given noun, verb, or adjective into inflectional paradigms are thought to constitute one such type of list. This book focuses on the question of which elements in a paradigm can stand in a relation of partial or total phonological identity. Leading scholars consider inflectional identity from a variety of theoretical perspectives, with an emphasis on both case studies and predictive theories of where syncretism and other "paradigmatic pressures" will occur in natural
language. The authors consider phenomena such as allomorphy and syncretism while exploring questions of underlying representations, the formal properties of markedness, and the featural representation of conjugation and declension classes. They do so from the perspective of contemporary theories of morphology and phonology, including Distributed Morphology and Optimality Theory, and in the context of a wide range of languages, among them Amharic, Greek, Romanian, Russian, Saami, and Yiddish. The subjects addressed in the book include the role of featural decomposition of morphosyntactic features, the status of paradigms as the unit of syncretism, asymmetric effects in identity-dependence, and the selection of a base-of-derivation.
The Bases of Inflectional
Identity will interest linguists and cognitive scientists, especially students and scholars of phonological theory and the phonology-morphology and mind-language interfaces at graduate level and above.Readership: Linguists and cognitive scientists at graduate level and above, especially those interested in phonological theory, the phonology-morphology and mind-language interfaces, and the relative merits of derivational vs. representational theories of phonological form.
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Edited by Asaf Bachrach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Andrew Nevins, Harvard University Contributors:
Asaf Bachrach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Nevins, Harvard University
Adam Albright, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Artemis Alexiadou, University of Stuttgart
John Bailyn, SUNY at Stony Brook
Jonathan Bobaljik, University of Connecticut
Andrea Calabrese, University of Connecticut
Morris Halle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alec Marantz, New York University
Gereon Mueller,
Leipzig University
Donca Steriade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Svenonius, University of Tromso
Jochen Trommer, University of Leipzig
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"The volume fully lives up to the requirement of the series editors to 'write so as to be understood by colleagues in related subfields of linguistics and by scholars in cognate disciplines'. All papers are well-written and have a clear exposition of the issues at hand. I am convinced that this volume will be widely cited and that the different chapters will be an inspiration for further research in the organization of inflectional paradigms in natural language." - Jan Don, University of Amsterdam, writing for Word Structure (EUP) "...this stimulating book presents a variety of perspectives...should be appealing to morphologists of all stripes..." - Jason D. Haugen
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1: Asaf Bachrach and Andrew Nevins: Approaches to Inflectional Identity
2: Jonathan Bobaljik: Paradigms (Optimal and Otherwise): A Case for Scepticism
3: Morris Halle and Alec Marantz: Clarifying 'Blur': Paradigms, Defaults, and Inflectional Classes
4: Peter Svenonius: Paradigm Generation and Northern Sami Stems
5: Artemis Alexiadou and Gereon Mueller: Class Features as Probes
6: Andrea Calabrese: On Absolute and Contextual Syncretism
7: Jochen Trommer: A Feature-Geometric Approach to Amharic Verb Classes
8: John Bailyn and Andrew Nevins: Russian Genitive Plurals are Impostors
9: Adam Albright: Inflectional Paradigms Have Bases, too: Arguments from Yiddish
10: Donca Steriade: A Pseudo-Cyclic Effect in Romanian Morpho-phonology
Index
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