The Segmental Morphophonology of Asian Languages

Summer Semester 20223 • Thursday 13:15-14:45 • NSG, S 213

Papers | Books and Dissertations | Moodle | Contact

In this course we discuss segmental processes in the languages of Asia (e.g., Uralic, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan), and their significance for theoretical models of phonology. An empirical focus of the course are vowel harmony and gemination. Theoretical emphasis will be on the interaction of phonological processes with morphosyntactic structure in stratal models of morphophonology.

Papers

• Kiparsky, P. (2000). Opacity and cyclicity. The Linguistic Review, 17:351-67.
• Kiparsky, Paul (2023) A Stratal OT perspective on vowel harmony. In Nancy Ritter and Harry v.d. Hulst (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony. Oxford University Press.
• Inkelas, S. and Orgun, C. O. (1995). Level ordering and economy in the lexical phonology of Turkish. Language, 71:763-793.
• Mohanan, K. P. (1995). The organization of the grammar. In: Goldsmith, J. A. (ed.) The handbook of phonological theory, pages 24-69. Blackwell, Cambridge MA.
• Christdas, Prathima (1986) On constraining the power of Lexical Phonology: Evidence from Tamil. Proceedings of NELS 17.
• Schiering, R., Bickel, B., and Hildebrandt, K. (2010) The prosodic word is not universal, but emergent. Journal of Linguistics, 46:657-709.
• Fortuna, Marcin. (2022) A phonological solution to allomorphy in Georgian nominal inflection. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1), pp. 1-29. (pdf)
• Yun, Jiwon (2009) A Stratal OT Approach to a Noun-Verb Asymmetry With Respect to Opacity in Korean. UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 15(1):Article 26. (pdf)
• Hossep Dolatian (2022) Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems. Ms., lingbuzz.
• Hossep Dolatian (2023) Output-conditioned and non-local allomorphy in Armenian theme vowels. The Linguistic Review 40(1):1-42.
• Vajda, E. J. (2001). The role of position class in Ket verb morphophonology. Word, 52(3):369– 436.
• Peter Staroverov & Darya Kavitskaya (2017) Tundra Nenets consonant sandhi as coalescence The Linguistic Review 34(2):331-364.
• Young-mee Yu Cho (2008) A Historical Perspective on Nonderived Environment Blocking: The Case of Korean Palatalization. in Kristin Hanson, and Sharon Inkelas (eds), The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky. MIT Press
• Herce, Borja (2021) Stem alternations in Kiranti and their implications for the morphology–phonology interface. J. of Linguistics 57:321–363.
• Kiparsky, P. (2003) Finnish noun inflection. In Nelson, D. and Manninen, S. (eds.) Generative Approaches to Finnic Linguistics, 109-161. CSLI.
• Bobaljik, J. D. (2008) Paradigms, optimal and otherwise: A case for skepticism. In Bachrach, A. and Nevins, A. I. (eds.) Inflectional Identity, 29–44. Oxford University Press. (on Itelmen)
• Pramod Kumar Pandey (1990) Hindi Schwa deletion. Lingua 82(4):277-311.
• Lev Blumenfeld & Ida Toivonen (2016) A featural paradox in Votic harmony. NLLT 34:1167–1180.

Books and Dissertations

• Orgun, C. O. (1996) Sign-based Morphology and Phonology with Special Attention to Optimality Theory. PhD thesis, UC Berkeley.
• Mohanan, K. P. (1986). The Theory of Lexical Phonology. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Holland.
• Vaysman, O. (2009) Segmental Alternations and Metrical Theory. PhD thesis, MIT.
• Rutgers, R. (1998) Yamphu Grammar. Texts and Lexicon. Leiden: Research School for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies.
• van Driem, G. (1987) A grammar of Limbu. Berlin u. a.: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Abramovitz, R. M. (2021) Topics in the Grammar of Koryak. PhD thesis, MIT.
• Roberts, T. (2000) Clitics and Agreement. PhD thesis, MIT (on Pashto Clitics)

Contact

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