Living on the edge : 28 papers in honour of Jonathan Kaye / edited by Stefan Ploch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaye, Jonathan, 1942-

Ploch, Stefan, 1967-

Series:

Studies in Generative Grammar

Studies in generative grammar ; 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Kaye, Jonathan, 1942-.

Kaye, Jonathan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (756 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of papers by an international group of authors honors Jonathan Kaye's contributions to phonology by expanding some of Kaye's ideas to a variety of theoretical topics and languages. The set of ideas discussed or used in this collection includes: empty categories, licensing relationships and constraints, a restrictive two-levelled approach to phonology (without rule ordering or constraint ranking), a restrictive theory of syllabic representation (without the codas constituent and with exclusively binary branching), theories of the phonology-phonetics interface in which phonology is motivated independently of phonetics, and the metatheoretical flaws in a number of widely accepted but rarely questioned views on phonology.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

Jonathan D. Kaye: Curriculum vitae

Jonathan D. Kaye: Testimonials

Jonathan D. Kaye: Publications

Instead of an introduction

1. General issues

1.1. Acquisition

Meno's paradox and the acquisition of grammar / Dresher, B. Elan

On the logical order of development in acquiring prosodic structure / Ritter, Nancy A.

1.2. Computation

On the computability of certain derivations in Government Phonology / Williams, Geoff

1.3. The organisation of grammar

Structure paradoxes in phonology / Hulst, Harry van der

An x-bar theory of Government Phonology / Rennison, John R. / Neubarth, Friedrich

1.4. Philosophy of science and metatheory

Meta-phonological speculations / Jensen, Sean

Metatheoretical problems in phonology with Occam's Razor and non-ad-hoc-ness / Ploch, Stefan

2. Elements: segmental structure and processes

Eerati tone: towards a tonal dialectology of Emakhuwa / Cassimjee, Farida / Kisseberth, Charles W.

Government Phonology and the vowel harmonies of Natal Portuguese and Yoruba / Cobb, Margaret

Palatalisation in Brazilian Portuguese / Cristófaro-Silva, Thaïs

Two notes on laryngeal licensing / Kenstowicz, Michael / Abu-Mansour, Mahasen / Törkenczy, Miklós

On spirantisation and affricates / Scheer, Tobias

3. Structure

3.1. Branching onsets

Branching onsets in Polish / Cyran, Eugeniusz

Are there branching onsets in Modern Icelandic? / Gussmann, Edmund

Remarks on mutae cum liquidā and branching onsets / Lowenstamm, Jean

Defective syllables: the other story of Italian sC(C)-sequences / Nikièma, Emmanuel

3.2. "Codas"

Remarks on prenominal liaison consonants in French / Morin, Yves Charles

The phonotactics of a "Prince" language: a case study / Piggott, Glyne L.

On the syllabification of right-edge consonants - evidence from Ahtna (Athapaskan) / Rice, Keren

Licensing constraint to let / Yoshida, Yuko

3.3. Empty categories

Empty and pseudo-empty categories / Charette, Monik

Unlicensed domain-final empty nuclei in Korean / Heo, Yong

Unreleasing: the case of neutralisation in Korean / Kim, Seon-Jung

3.4. "Syllabic consonants"

/r/ syllabicity: Polish versus Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian / Rowicka, Grażyna

The syllabic nasal in Japanese / Yoshida, Shohei

3.5. Templates and morphology

Template and morphology in Khalkha Mongolian - and beyond? / Denwood, Ann

A non-derivational analysis of the so-called "diminutive retroflex suffixation" / Goh, Yeng-Seng

Why Arabic guttural assimilation is not a phonological process / Guerssel, M. Masten

3.6. Metrical structure

On a certain notion of "occurrence": the source of metrical structure, and of much more / Vergnaud, Jean-Roger

References

Subject index

Language index

Names index

Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [633]-684) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110890563

3110890569

OCLC:

979764656