Paradigms (Optimal and Otherwise): A case for scepticism
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the status of inflectional paradigms in grammatical theory, with special reference to the theory of Optimal Paradigms (OP, McCarthy 2005), a particular version of Paradigm Uniformity. OP proposes that certain systematic phonological differences between...
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ftdatacite:10.7282/t34q7rzw 2023-05-15T16:56:48+02:00 Paradigms (Optimal and Otherwise): A case for scepticism Bobaljik, Johnathan David 2006 https://dx.doi.org/10.7282/t34q7rzw https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/41438/ unknown Oxford University Press Text article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2006 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.7282/t34q7rzw 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the status of inflectional paradigms in grammatical theory, with special reference to the theory of Optimal Paradigms (OP, McCarthy 2005), a particular version of Paradigm Uniformity. OP proposes that certain systematic phonological differences between nouns and verbs should be analyzed as arising from contingent facts about the individual affixes making up the nominal and verbal inflectional paradigms. I argue here that the Arabic data presented in OP does not support the OP model (as against, for example, cyclic alternatives) and that consideration of similar phenomena in Itelmen, a language with richer inflectional paradigms, suggests that it is morpho-syntactic category and not paradigm properties, that determine phonological behaviour. Text Itelmen DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) McCarthy ENVELOPE(66.543,66.543,-70.404,-70.404) |
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This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the status of inflectional paradigms in grammatical theory, with special reference to the theory of Optimal Paradigms (OP, McCarthy 2005), a particular version of Paradigm Uniformity. OP proposes that certain systematic phonological differences between nouns and verbs should be analyzed as arising from contingent facts about the individual affixes making up the nominal and verbal inflectional paradigms. I argue here that the Arabic data presented in OP does not support the OP model (as against, for example, cyclic alternatives) and that consideration of similar phenomena in Itelmen, a language with richer inflectional paradigms, suggests that it is morpho-syntactic category and not paradigm properties, that determine phonological behaviour. |
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