Joan Mascar\u00f3 Altimiras
\n“Phonologically (and syntactically and lexically) conditioned allomorphy.”<\/p>\n
WHEN: Feb 7, 12:30-1:45
\nWHERE: 32-D461<\/p>\n
Abstract is below.<\/p>\n
The schedule of talks for the rest of the semester will be posted later this
\nweek at:
Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n
Your ling-lunch organizers,
\nJen & Jessica<\/p>\n
——-<\/p>\n
ABSTRACT:<\/p>\n
Phonologically conditioned allomorphy has been analyzed as an instance of The
\nEmergence of The Unmarked (TETU). Allomorphs are listed in the lexicon with no
\ncontextual subcategorization, and the phonology chooses the allomorphs that
\nyield a less marked structure, depending on the context in which they appear. I
\nwill analyze two specially difficult cases of phonologically conditioned
\nallomorphy, Haitian definite suffix selection and Northeastern Central Catalan
\ns-deletion.<\/p>\n
In the first case allomorph selection seems to be governed by unnatural
\nphonological conditions: the allomorph la appears after consonants, as in
\nliv-la ‘book-the’, and the allomorph a appears after vowels, as in papa-a
\n‘father-the’. I will show that once we allow partial ordering allomorphs in
\nthe lexicon (ordering reflecting relative markedness), natural alignment
\nconditions derive the right results.<\/p>\n
The second case regards s-deletion. Here “deletion” is subject two three
\nheterogenous conditions: a phonological condition (s must be final in a complex
\ncoda and followed by a consonant), a lexical condition (s must be the plural
\nmorph), and a syntactic condition (the lexical element ending in s must be
\nprenominal). Thus in bon-s vin-s blanc-s franceso-s ‘good-pl wine-pl white-pl
\nFrench-pl’, the plural marker in prenominal bon-s doesn’t appear, but
\nplural markers in postnominal vin-s and blanc-s show up. Assume N is final
\nwithin the DP and raising causes agreement with elements appearing to its
\nright, but agreement with the rest takes place at PF. This forces postnominal
\nagreement but leaves prenominal agreement subject to PF conditions. The bare
\nroot bon will be preferred to the number-inflected bon-s because it doesn’t
\nviolate the marked structure CsC even if it violates (PF) Concord. Other cases
\nof prenominal-postnominal asymmetry will be briefly discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joan Mascar\u00f3 Altimiras “Phonologically (and syntactically and lexically) conditioned allomorphy.” WHEN: Feb 7, 12:30-1:45 WHERE: 32-D461 Abstract is below. The schedule of talks for the rest of the semester will be posted later this week at: Hope to see you there! Your ling-lunch organizers, Jen & Jessica ——- ABSTRACT: Phonologically conditioned allomorphy has been analyzed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}