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Glide: High Vowel Alternation at the Syntax–Phonology Interface
Berber languages present a wealth of intricate phonological alternations involving glides and high vowels, some of which still resist standard...
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The Mirror Alignment Principle
As codified by Baker’s (
1985 ) “Mirror Principle” (MP), the linear order of morphemes within a word generally correlates with hierarchical syntactic...
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A formal account of morphological epenthesis in Serbo-Croatian
This article analyzes stem allomorphy in Serbo-Croatian neuter noun inflection as morphological epenthesis. I demonstrate that consonant insertion in...
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Why the Morphosyntax/Semantics Interface Matters for Nouns
Although the category of nouns, or “substantives” (for a long time, the word “noun” was used for a broader category that included more subparts of...
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Serial verb constructions and the syntax-prosody interface
Rolle (
2020 ) identifies an apparent morphophonological conspiracy in serial verb constructions (SVCs) in Degema. He argues that it constitutes...
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Prosody as syntactic evidence
A subset of Mayan languages feature “prosodic allomorphy,” a phenomenon involving morphological alternations at certain prosodic boundaries. In...
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Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase
This paper describes and analyzes phonological processes pertinent to the glottal stop in A’ingae (or Cofán, iso 639-3 :
con ). The operations which...
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Super Linguistics: an introduction
We argue that formal linguistic theory, properly extended, can provide a unifying framework for diverse phenomena beyond traditional linguistic...
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A compositional mechanism for pairwise predication in the Korean Left-Node Raising construction
This paper investigates the various properties of the so-called Korean Left-Node Raising (LNR) construction, including its interpretation when a...
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The Morpho-Syntax-Phonology Interface in Complex Compounds
Although the interfaces of phonology with other components of grammar are usually examined as pairs (e.g., phonology–syntax or phonology–morphology...
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Allomorph selection precedes phonology: Evidence from Yindjibarndi
Theories of the phonology-morphology interface can be differentiated by their claims regarding the timing of phonologically conditioned suppletive...
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Introduction: The Characteristics of Korean Spoken Language and Written Language
This introductory chapter opens up with a brief history of Korea in the context of the Korean language and writing system, along with the names of...
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Musical grou** as prosodic implementation
This paper reviews evidence concerning the nature of grou** in music and language and their interactions with other linguistic and musical systems....
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Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems
Morphophonological derivations are often simultaneously isomorphic to both surface morphotactics, cyclic phonology, and to abstract morphosemantic...
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Corpus-Based Vocabulary Studies
Disclaimer: The summaries in this chapter were generated from Springer Nature publications using extractive AI auto-summarization: An...
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The Topology of Hangul: Learnability, Efficiency, and Utility
This chapter discusses the topology of Hangul to understand how the constituents of syllables and words are arranged and interrelated to promote...
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Reps and representations: a warm-up to a grammar of lifting
In this paper, I outline a grammar of lifting (i.e., resistance training) and compare it to that of language. I approach lifting as a system of...
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Root and stem allomorphy without multiple exponence: the case of special nominatives
This paper explores an approach to root and stem allomorphy that does not make use of context sensitive rules (i.e., secondary exponence) and relies...
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From Phonology to Syntax: Insights from Jangkat Malay
Jangkat is a Malayic variety spoken in the Bukit Barisan Mountains, in the Malay homeland of Sumatra. It provides insight into the role of the...
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Introduction
This chapter outlines the motivations for the current study of language and dialect death in Gascon, taking inspiration from seminal works on...