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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790135003321

Autore

Scheer Tobias

Titolo

A lateral theory of phonology [[electronic resource]] . Volume 2 Direct interface and one-channel translation : a non-diacritic theory of the morphosyntax-phonology interface / / by Tobias Scheer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

ISBN

1-280-59754-2

9786613627377

1-61451-111-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Collana

Studies in generative grammer, , 0167-4331 ; ; 68.2

Disciplina

417.7

427.9729845

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology

Phonetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Desiderata for a non-diacritic theory of the (representational side of) the interface -- pt. 2. Direct Interface and just one channel -- pt. 3. Behaviour and predictions of CVCV in the environment defined.

Sommario/riassunto

Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories (2011), written from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author's approach to the representational side of the interface. The book is thus about how information is transmitted to phonology when an object is inserted into phonological representations (as opposed to the derivational means, i.e. phase theory today). The idea of Direct Interface is that diacritics such as hash-marks in SPE or prosodic constituency since the early 80s, which mediate between morpho-syntax and phonology, are illegal in a modular environment where computational systems can only process domain-specific vocabulary. Direct Interface instead holds that only truly phonological vocabulary can carry morpho-syntactic information. It is shown that of all representational objects only syllabic space qualifies. Couched in CVCV (or strict CV), i.e. Government Phonology, this insight is then applied in detailed case studies of Belarusian, Corsican, Greek and the



exhaustive lexical inventory of sonorant-obstruent-initial words in 13 Slavic languages,. In this sense, the book is the 2nd volume of A Lateral Theory of Phonology (2004).