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Hana-bana (花々): A Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Hana-bana (花々): A Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester

Persistence of prosody

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Persistence of prosody

Nasal hardening and aspect allomorphy in Kaqchikel

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Nasal hardening and aspect allomorphy in Kaqchikel

Stratified faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar and emergent core-periphery structure

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Stratified faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar and emergent core-periphery structure

The perception of a secondary palatalization contrast: A preliminary comparison of Russian and Irish

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The perception of a secondary palatalization contrast: A preliminary comparison of Russian and Irish

Notes on prosodic headedness and tone in Tokyo Japanese, Standard English and Northern Bizkaian Basque

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Notes on prosodic headedness and tone in Tokyo Japanese, Standard English and Northern Bizkaian Basque

Nominal classes and phonological agreement in Tagbana

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Nominal classes and phonological agreement in Tagbana

Overapplication conversion

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Overapplication conversion

Adjacent identical vowels: Vowel length or hiatus?

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Adjacent identical vowels: Vowel length or hiatus?

Prosodic recursion and pseudo-cyclicity in Danish compound stød

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Prosodic recursion and pseudo-cyclicity in Danish compound stød

Asymmetric Crisp Edge

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Asymmetric Crisp Edge

Ancient Greek pitch accent

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Ancient Greek pitch accent

Feature Identity and icy targets in Menominee vowel harmony

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Feature Identity and icy targets in Menominee vowel harmony

The Perfect Prosodic Word in Italian: Or fruit salad matters

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The Perfect Prosodic Word in Italian: Or fruit salad matters

Counting parses

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Counting parses

Mora sensitivity in Kagoshima Japanese: Evidence from no contraction

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Mora sensitivity in Kagoshima Japanese: Evidence from no contraction

Asking the Right Questions: Essays in Honor of Sandra Chung

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Asking the Right Questions: Essays in Honor of Sandra Chung

A Reasonable Way to Proceed

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A Reasonable Way to Proceed

Representing Language: Essays in Honor of Judith Aissen

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This volume is a collection of 19 essays on linguistics honoring Judith Aissen. It includes papers on general and theoretical linguistics, syntax, optimality theory and Mayan languages.

NonInitiality within Spell-Out Domains: Unifying the Post-Syntactic Behavior of Bulgarian Dative Clitics

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Possessive (nominal) and indirect object (clausal) clitics are homophonous within the Balkan Slavic languages and Romanian. Pancheva (2004) shows that this syncretism is not just morphophonological but that the two types of clitics constitute identical feature bundles bearing dative case. Yet, these dative clitics seem to exhibit distinct behavior in the nominal and clausal domains: in Bulgarian the nominal clitics appear in second position within the nominal phrase while the clausal clitics are verb-adjacent and non-initial within the clause. It is puzzling that the same syntactic objects exhibit such different distributional patterns. I argue that in Bulgarian this seemingly distinct behavior follows from the interaction of a distributional constraint on dative clitics, NonInitiality within Spell-Out domains, and the different structural properties of the syntactic domains they are associated with. In particular, a number of constituents can be pre-clitic in clauses because...

MASC: Back Matter

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

MASC: Back Matter

Extraposition and Definiteness Effects in Icelandic DPs

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This paper investigates the morphosyntax of the Icelandic DP, following work by Sigurdsson (1993, 2006); Julien (2005). In addition to providing an analysis of the basic structure of the Icelandic DP, this paper investigates two (apparent) movements within the DP: one involving the definite suffix -inn, and one involving pronominal possessors (e.g. minn 'my'). I show that the fronting of pronominal possessors cannot be analyzed as movement and instead must indicate a use of pronominal possessors as demonstratives. In contrast, the suffixed article does involve movement, and I argue that it is phrasal movement, contra the head movement accounts proposed by Sigurdsson (1993, 2006). I show that an analysis where the prenominal article and suffixed article occupy the same position cannot be maintained, which is surprising given that they never surface at the same time. Coupled with this is a requirement, that PP complements to N extrapose to the right edge of DP, which is thus...

A Definite Problem: The Morphosyntax of Double Definiteness in Swedish

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Swedish is well known for the fact that it appears to show two reflexes of definiteness in its definite nominals. The language makes use of a definite article at the beginning of the nominal and a definite suffix on the head noun. There have been a number of approaches to dealing with the distribution of these elements. Some claim that there is but one determiner in the DP structure, but these do not permit an account of how semantic features influence the independent use of the article and the suffix. Other theories posit more functional material in the nominal, but these do not provide a satisfactory syntactic account for the distribution. The theory I develop here takes the most satisfying elements of each of these kinds of theories and unifies them to provide an approach that can account for the semantic facts and provide a more theoretically sound syntax.

MASC: Front Matter

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

MASC: Front Matter

Verbal Inflection at a Distance

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This paper examines inflection on fronted verbs in Danish. In both VP topicalization and VP left dislocation with resumption, the inflection on the fronted verb is governed by an in situ auxiliary, suggesting that the fronted VP originates as a sister to that auxiliary. This analysis is straightforward for VP topicalization, but fails for VP left dislocation. Yet, the two show identical patterns of inflection, down to systematic covariance in case of interspeaker variation. I take this as evidence that the two fronting constructions have the same syntax and vary only in whether the proform that mediates between the auxiliary and the fronted VP is overt or null. That in turn implies that verbal inflection can be governed at a distance, and that some mechanism other than the standard generative ones (affix-hopping, selection, and feature valuing) is involved.

The Role of Morphological and Phonological Factors in Bulgarian Allomorph Selection

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Role of Morphological and Phonological Factors in Bulgarian Allomorph Selection

Object Markers are Doubled Clitics in Amharic

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It has long been debated whether the object marker in Amharic is a reflex of object agreement (Amberber 1996; Yimam 2006) or a doubled object clitic (Mullen 1986; Yabe 2001). I re-open this debate, evaluating previous argument and developing several new arguments for the object marker being an object clitic. If agreement is analyzed as the Minimalist relation Agree, several diagnostics relating to case, the morphophonology of object markers, and what happens when no object marker is possible, all demonstrate that the object markers are doubled clitics. The paper thus serves as a case study in how to distinguish agreement and clitics using multiple diagnostics (cf. Preminger 2009).

Focus and Accusative Pronouns in Arabic

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Focus and Accusative Pronouns in Arabic

The Morphosyntax of the Arabic Verb: Toward a Unified Syntax-Prosody

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This paper proposes a unified model of the morphosyntax and morphophonology of the Modern Standard Arabic verbal system which attempts to preserve the empirical and analytical observations from recent Optimality-Theoretic approaches to templates in Semitic (Ussishkin 1999, 2000, 2005) as well as the observations from Distributed Morphology concerning argument structure and morphemic composition (Arad 2003, 2005). In doing so, a clausal syntax for Arabic is proposed which does not crucially rely on an Agr(eement) Projection as a landing site for subject movement. This is done using arguments from VP-adverb placement, negative clitic placement, and word order in perfective periphrastic verbal constructions in order to motivate the syntactic structure. This structure is then shown to pose a problem for modern theories of morphological linearization (Pak 2008; Embick 2010). Finally, the linearization problem is resolved by appealing to prosody as the mechanism for linearization,...

Irregularity in Japanese Honorifics

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines suppletion and feature-conditioned allomorphy in Distributed Morphology. It discusses some empirical commonalities among these kinds of allomorphy, and then examines how they could be accounted for in DM. It then moves on to a particular case of irregularity, the Japanese verbal honorific. Some of these honorifics are shown to fit the criteria for suppletion and feature-conditioned allomorphy. However, it is then shown that the common notion of the cycle within DM cannot treat these honorifics as cases of allomorphy, suggesting that the phonological cycle must be larger than the version argued for in Embick 2010.

Morphology Alone

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

With an analysis of the inflectional properties of Luiseno words, this paper builds on the examples offered in Aronoff 1994 of 'morphology by itself', of morphological generalizations not plausibly analyzed as anything other than morphology. All Luiseno words share four attributes---three of which are notional; the fourth serves to make the word accessible to the syntax. The value for the latter can be independent of the former, but it need not be. This interdependence is a purely morphological phenomenon.

Association Faith and Korean Palatalization