Recent linguistics publications and draft papers by John Frampton and/or Sam Gutmann

Distributed reduplication.
John Frampton.

A comprehensive theory of reduplication.  The 2004 manuscript, revised only slightly, will appear as a Linguistic Inquiry monograph this summer (2009).   

 

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Sonority-Driven Derivation of Syllable Structure; A Generalization of Dell and Elmedlaoui's Syllabification Algorithm
John Frampton.  March 2008 (draft).

The generalized theory is applied to Khalka Mongolian and Ath-Sidar Rifian Berber as well as Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber.  The point is that rather than being a special case, Dell and Elmedlaoui's analysis is very general.  It is conjectured to be universal.

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Monodirectionality and Syllable Integrity in Winnebago
John Frampton.  March 2007 (draft).

A revision of Halle and Idsardi's analysis of Winnebago stress which removes several stipulations and extends their analysis to explain the binary/ternary variations which have been noted.

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Weak Local Parsing in a Theory Without Foot Inventories
John Frampton, May 2007 (draft).

Finnish, Estonian, Tripura Bangla, and Sentani.  Hayes' theory of weak local parsing is critiqued and (what is correct about it) is shown to follow from the theory of defect-driven footing rules developed in SPE Extensions: Conditions on Representations and Defect Driven Rules.

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Goal-Driven Rules
John Frampton, August 2005

This was intended to be an appendix to the book "Distributed Reduplication" but was dropped from the final manuscript.

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Copies, Traces, Occurrences, and all that: Evidence from Bulgarian multiple wh-movement
John Frampton, September 2004 (second draft).

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Some Notes on Synthetic/Periphrastic Alternation
John Frampton, March 2004 (first draft).

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Root vowel syncope and reduplication in Sanskrit.
John Frampton, June 2003.

Steriade's (1988) theory of Sanskrit syllable structure and full-copy theory of reduplication are revised in order to account for the same empirical facts (with some minor improvements) within the general framework of Distributed Reduplication.

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In Papers from the 2003 Chicago Linguistics Society Meeting.

Syncretism, Impoverishment, and the Structure of Person Features.
John Frampton, May 2002.

1sg/3sg syncretism is ubiquitous in the Germanic languages outside the present tense. It includes both stem allomorphy and inflectional endings and cuts across all verb classes. A detailed study supports the idea that impoverishment is a prime cause of syncretism as well as the idea that person is represented by a pair of binary features rather than a single trivalent feature. Kabyle Berber inflectional morphology is also examined.

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In Papers from the 2002 Chicago Linguistics Society Meeting.

How Sentences Grow in the Mind: Efficient Computation in Minimalist Syntax.
John Frampton and Sam Gutmann, November 2001. (Draft)

A theory of feature checking and cyclic architecture which (as far as syntax is concerned) allows sentences to be constructed without backtracking, without comparison of derivations, and without the device of numerations.

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To appear in Eric Reuland and Michal Starke (eds.), Tools in Linguistic Theory, John Benjamins.

What Kind of Thing is a Language Faculty? John Frampton, September 2001.

A critique of optimality-theoretic phonology.

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Appeared in Glot International, 6.1

The amn't gap, ineffability, and anomalous aren't: Against Morphosyntactic Competition. John Frampton, April 2001.

A critique of Bresnan's recent "Explaining Morphosyntactic Competition" (which appears in The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory).

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To appear in Papers from the Parasession of the 2001 Chicago Linguistics Society Meeting .

SPE Extensions: Conditions on Representations and Defect Driven Rules.
John Frampton, March 2001.

A formalism for defect-driven iterative rules is introduced and applied to syllabification and footing. The autosegmental theory of syllabification which is proposed allows straightforward analyses of some footing/syllabification interactions which have have been claimed to be beyond the reach of derivational phonology.

See [Abstract]. Download file as [PDF] or [Postscript]. (28 pages)

To appear in Morris Halle and Bert Vaux (eds.), Rules and Constraints in Contemporary Phonological Theory. Oxford University Press.

Remarks on Derivation by Phase.
John Frampton, Sam Gutmann, Julie Legate, and Charles Yang, October 2000.

Some problems with the Derivation by Phase feature valuation theory are pointed out and explored.

See [Abstract]. Download file as [PDF] or [Postscript]. (8 pages)

Crash-Proof Syntax. John Frampton and Sam Gutmann, September 2000.

Do interface conditions act as filters which weed out unsatisfactory derivations or is the generative system designed in such a way that it avoids generating derivations which fail at the interface?

See [Abstract]. Download file as [PDF] or [Postscript]. (15 pages)

To appear in Sam Epstein and Daniel Seely (eds.), Derivations and Explanation in the Minimalist Program, Blackwell.

Agreement is Feature Sharing. John Frampton and Sam Gutmann, August 2000.

A theory of agreement is proposed which overcomes some residual problems with the feature checking mechanism proposed in Chomsky's Derivation by Phase.

See [Abstract]. Download file as [PDF] or [Postscript]. (draft, 32 pages).

Morphological Well-Formedness as a Derivational Constraint on Syntax: Verbal Inflection in English. John Frampton and Sam Gutmann, November 1999.

An account of the different raising properties of auxiliaries and main verbs in English.

See [Abstract. Download file as [PDF] or [Postscript.] (draft, 32 pages)