Phonological Correlates of Affix Order - Winter Semester 2018/2019

BA Modul 04-006-1009 • Theorie und Praxis sprachwissenschaftlicher Forschung • Thursday 09:15-10:45 • H1.5.16

Different grammatical framework make highly divergent predictions on how phonological processes might interact with affix order. In Classical Lexical Morphology and Phonology (Kiparsky 1982) it is assumed that affixes are grouped into strata which form contiguous affix strings and also exhibit uniform phonological behavior. Non-modular versions of Optimality Theory predict that affix ordering might be at least in part governed by prosodic optimization (Kim 2008). In recent Distributed-Morphology analyses both affix order and phonological cycles are predicted to be governed by the same (post-)syntactic derivations (Newell 2015). Crucially most of these hypotheses have never been systematically tested by crosslinguistic studies. The goal of this course is to take first steps into this direction by evaluating correlates of affix order in a heterogeneous sample of languages with rich affixation morphology.

Readings

Morphosyntax of Affix Order

Rice, K. (2011) Principles of affix ordering: An overview. Word Structure, 4(2):169-200.
Trommer, J. (2003) The Interaction of Morphology and Syntax in Affix Order. Yearbook of Morphology 2002, 283-324.
Ryan, K. M. (2010) Variable Affix Order: Grammar and Learning. Language 86(4):758-791.

Classical Lexical Phonology

Kenstowicz, M. (1994) Phonology in generative grammar. Cambridge MA: Blackwell, chapter 5
Kiparsky, P. (1982) From Cyclic Phonology to Lexical Phonology. In: J. A. Goldsmith (ed.) Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings. Malden MA: Blackwell, 34-62.
Fabb, N. (1988) English suffixation is constrained only by selectional restrictions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 6: 527-539.
Hay, J. & Plag, I. (2004) What constrains possible suffix combinations? On the interaction of grammatical and processing restrictions in derivational morphology. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22: 565-596.

Phonologically Conditioned Affix Order

Kim, Yuni (2010) Phonological and morphological conditions on affix order in Huave. Morphology 20(1):133-163.
Paster, M. (2009) Explaining phonological conditions on affixation: Evidence from suppletive allomorphy and affix ordering. Word Structure 2(1):18-47.
Benz, J. (2017) Stress and a Morpheme Ordering Anomaly in Washo. BA thesis, Universität Leipzig.
Jenks, P. & Rose, S. (2015) Mobile object markers in Moro: The role of tone. Language 91(2):269-307.

Interfixation

Hyman, L. (2002) Cyclicity and base non-identity. In Restle, D. and Zaefferer, D., editors, Sounds and Systems. Studies in Structure and Change. A Festschrift for Theo Vennemann, 223-239. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
Hyman, L. M. (2003) Suffix ordering in Bantu: A morphocentric account. In Booij, G. and van der Marle, J., editors, Yearbook of Morphology 2002, 245-281. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Rolle, N. (2018) Transparadigmatic Output-Output Correspondence: A Case Study from Ese Ejja. In: Gillian Gallagher and Maria Gouskova and Sora Yin (ed.) Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC, Linguistic Society of America.

Aging

Newell, Heather (2017) Nested Phase Interpretation and the PIC. In: H. Newell, M. Noonan, G. Piggott & L. Travis (eds).The Structure of Words at the interfaces. OUP.
McPherson, L. & Hayes, B. (2016) Relating application frequency to morphological structure: the case of Tommo So vowel harmony. Phonology 33(1):125-167.
Guy, G. R. (1991) Explanation in variable phonology: An exponential model of morphological constraints. Language Variation and Change 3: 1-22.

Prefixes vs. Suffixes

van Oostendorp, M. (2004) Crossing morpheme boundaries in Dutch. Lingua 114:1367-1400.
Moskal, Beata (2015) Domains on the Border: Between Morphology and Phonology. PhD thesis, UConn.

Other

Nordlinger, R. (2008) Verbal morphology in Murrinh-Patha: evidence for templates. Morphology 20(2):
Zukoff, Sam (2017) Arabic Nonconcatenative Morphology and the Syntax-Phonology Interface. NELS Proceedings 47, volume 3:295-314.
Donohue, M. (1998) A Note on Verbal Agreement in Maung. Australian Journal of Linguistics 18(1):73-89.

Contact

Jochen Trommer
Institut für Linguistik
Universität Leipzig

jtrommer [æt] uni-leipzig.de

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