Living on the Edge

28 Papers in Honour of Jonathan Kaye

Stefan Ploch

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783110176193
• eBook ISBN: 9783110890563
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Grammar & Punctuation
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This collection of papers by an international group of authors honors Jonathan Kaye's contributions to phonology by expanding some of Kaye's ideas to a variety of theoretical topics and languages. The set of ideas discussed or used in this collection includes: empty categories, licensing relationships and constraints, a restrictive two-levelled approach to phonology (without rule ordering or constraint ranking), a restrictive theory of syllabic representation (without the codas constituent and with exclusively binary branching), theories of the phonology-phonetics interface in which phonology is motivated independently of phonetics, and the metatheoretical flaws in a number of widely accepted but rarely questioned views on phonology.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Curriculum vitae
• Testimonials
• Publications
• Instead of an introduction
• 1 General issues
• 1.1. Acquisition
• Meno’s paradox and the acquisition of grammar
• On the logical order of development in acquiring prosodic structure
• 1.2. Computation
• On the computability of certain derivations in Government Phonology
• 1.3. The organisation of grammar
• Structure paradoxes in phonology
• An x-bar theory of Government Phonology
• 1.4. Philosophy of science and metatheory
• Meta-phonological speculations
• Metatheoretical problems in phonology with Occam’s Razor and non-ad-hoc-ness
• 2 Elements: segmental structure and processes
• Eerati tone: towards a tonal dialectology of Emakhuwa
• Government Phonology and the vowel harmonies of Natal Portuguese and Yoruba
• Palatalisation in Brazilian Portuguese
• Two notes on laryngeal licensing
• On spirantisation and affricates
• 3 Structure
• 3.1. Branching onsets
• Branching onsets in Polish
• Are there branching onsets in Modern Icelandic?
• Remarks on mutæ cum liquidā and branching onsets
• Defective syllables: the other story of Italian sC(C)-sequences
• 3.2. “Codas”
• Remarks on prenominal liaison consonants in French
• The phonotactics of a “Prince” language: a case study
• On the syllabification of right-edge consonants – evidence from Ahtna (Athapaskan)
• Licensing constraint to let
• 3.3. Empty categories
• Empty and pseudo-empty categories
• Unlicensed domain-final empty nuclei in Korean
• Unreleasing: the case of neutralisation in Korean
• 3.4. “Syllabic consonants”
• /r/ syllabicity: Polish versus Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian
• The syllabic nasal in Japanese
• 3.5. Templates and morphology
• Template and morphology in Khalkha Mongolian – and beyond?
• A non-derivational analysis of the so-called “diminutive retroflex suffixation”
• Why Arabic guttural assimilation is not a phonological process
• 5.6. Metrical structure
• On a certain notion of “occurrence”: the source of metrical structure, and of much more
• References
• Subject index
• Language index
• Names index
• Contributors