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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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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comprehensive theory of reduplication. Distributed Reduplication.
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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Papers from the 2003 Chicago Linguistics Society Meeting.
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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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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Eric Reuland and Michal Starke (eds.), Tools in Linguistic Theory, John
Benjamins.
A
critique of optimality-theoretic phonology.
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A
critique of Bresnan's recent "Explaining Morphosyntactic Competition"
(which appears in The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory).
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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.
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To appear in
Morris Halle and Bert Vaux (eds.), Rules and Constraints in Contemporary
Phonological Theory. Oxford University Press.
Some
problems with the Derivation by Phase feature valuation theory are
pointed out and explored.
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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?
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Sam Epstein and Daniel Seely (eds.), Derivations and Explanation in the
Minimalist Program, Blackwell.
A
theory of agreement is proposed which overcomes some residual problems with the
feature checking mechanism proposed in Chomsky's Derivation by Phase.
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An
account of the different raising properties of auxiliaries and main verbs in
English.
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