Against Richness of the Base: Evidence from Nganasan
Since Optimality Theory is a highly output-oriented grammatical theory, the strongest hypothesis is that all systematic, language-particular patterns are the result of output constraints, and that there is no other place from which such patterns can derive. In particular, input is not a level of der...
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ftlingsocamerojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/3848 2024-09-15T18:20:23+00:00 Against Richness of the Base: Evidence from Nganasan Vaysman, Olga 2002-08-14 application/pdf http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/BLS/article/view/3848 https://doi.org/10.3765/bls.v28i1.3848 eng eng Linguistic Society of America http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/BLS/article/view/3848/3548 http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/BLS/article/view/3848 doi:10.3765/bls.v28i1.3848 Copyright (c) 2002 Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society; BLS 28: General Session and Parasession on Field Linguistics; 327-338 2377-1666 0363-2946 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2002 ftlingsocamerojs https://doi.org/10.3765/bls.v28i1.3848 2024-08-21T03:09:19Z Since Optimality Theory is a highly output-oriented grammatical theory, the strongest hypothesis is that all systematic, language-particular patterns are the result of output constraints, and that there is no other place from which such patterns can derive. In particular, input is not a level of derivation that can be constrained. This principle is known as Richness of the Base hypothesis, and it states that there are no constraints on the input structure of words, and that all linguistic constraints are statements on the surface structure only. In other words, Richness of the Base attributes all systematic phonological patterns to constraint rankings, not to difference in inputs. In this paper, I consider some consonant gradation facts from a Uralic Samoyedic language Nganasan, and argue that (at least the strict interpretation of) the Richness of the Base hypothesis runs into problems when we deal with full range of relevant data from this language, namely isolated words, compounds, and borrowings. Article in Journal/Newspaper Nganasan* samoyed* Proceedings Published by the LSA (Linguistic Society of America) Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 28 1 327 |
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Since Optimality Theory is a highly output-oriented grammatical theory, the strongest hypothesis is that all systematic, language-particular patterns are the result of output constraints, and that there is no other place from which such patterns can derive. In particular, input is not a level of derivation that can be constrained. This principle is known as Richness of the Base hypothesis, and it states that there are no constraints on the input structure of words, and that all linguistic constraints are statements on the surface structure only. In other words, Richness of the Base attributes all systematic phonological patterns to constraint rankings, not to difference in inputs. In this paper, I consider some consonant gradation facts from a Uralic Samoyedic language Nganasan, and argue that (at least the strict interpretation of) the Richness of the Base hypothesis runs into problems when we deal with full range of relevant data from this language, namely isolated words, compounds, and borrowings. |
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