Analogy, Levelling, Markedness (Editor: Aditi Lahiri)

[Gillian Caglayan]

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>From the series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
Series Editor: Werner Winter

Aditi Lahiri (Editor)

Analogy, Levelling, Markedness
Principles of Change in Phonology and Morphology

2000. 23 x 15,5 cm. viii, 385 pages.
Cloth. DM 178,- /EUR 91,01 /öS 1299,- (RRP) /sFr 158,- /approx. US$
89.00
ISBN 3-11-016750-6
(Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 127)


Ranging from tonogenesis, stress shift, and quantity readjustment of
paradigmatic levelling, allomorphy, and grammaticalisation, this
collection covers a wide spectrum of developments, primarily in
Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Aryan. What is shared by the contributors is
the view of individual changes as embedded in phonological and
morphological systems. A traditional umbrella category of change in
systems is that of analogy. Somewhat less sanctioned, markedness is a
basic relation shaping the structure of systems, in phonology as well as
morphology. From contemporary theoretical angles the role of markedness
and analogy for change is explored in this volume.


Table of Contents:

ADITI LAHIRI: Introduction

PAUL KIPARSKY: Analogy as optimization: "exceptions" to Sievers' Law in
Gothic

B. ELAN DRESHER: Analogical levelling of vowel length in West Germanic

ADITI LAHIRI: Hierarchical restructuring in the creation of verbal
morphology in Bengali and Germanic: Evidence from phonology

RENATE RAFFELSIEFEN: Constraints on schwa apocope in Middle High German

FRANS PLANK: Morphological re-activation and phonological alternations:
Evidence for voiceless restructuring in German

WOLFGANG ULLRICH WURZEL: Inflectional system and markedness

CARLOS GUSSENHOVEN: On the origin and development of the Central
Franconian Tone contrast

TOMAS RIAD: The origin of Danish stød

PAULA FIKKERT: Prosodic variation in "Lutgart"

HAIKE JACOBS: The revenge of the uneven trochee: Latin main stress,
metrical constituency, stress-related phenomena and OT

RICHARD HOGG: On the (non-)existence of High Vowel Deletion

Index of subjects
Index of names
Index of languages



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