19.3279, Books: Phonology/Ling Theor ies: Carvalho, Scheer, S égéral (Eds)

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Date: 29-Oct-2008
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Lenition and Fortition: Carvalho, Scheer, Ségéral (Eds)

 

	
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Subject: Lenition and Fortition: Carvalho, Scheer, Ségéral (Eds)

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Title: Lenition and Fortition 
Series Title: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 99  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
	   http://www.mouton-publishers.com
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sp/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110206081-1 


Editor: Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
Editor: Tobias Scheer
Editor: Philippe Ségéral

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110206081 Pages: 597 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110206081 Pages: 597 Price: U.S. $ 157.00 Comment: For orders placed in North America only.


Abstract:

There are books on tone, coronals, the internal structure of segments,
vowel harmony, and a couple of other topics in phonology. This book aims to
fill the gap for Lenition and Fortition, which is one of the first
phenomena that was addressed by phonologists in the 19th century, and ever
since contributed to phonological thinking. It is certainly one of the core
phenomena that is found in the phonology of natural language: together with
assimilations, the other important family of phenomena, Lenition and
Fortition constitute the heart of what phonology can do to sound.

The book aims to provide an overall treatment of the question in its many
aspects: historical, typological, synchronic, diachronic, empirical and
theoretical. Various current approaches to phonology are represented.

The book is structured into three parts: 1) properties and behaviour of
Lenition/Fortition, 2) lenition patterns in particular languages and
language families, 3) how Lenition/Fortition work.

Part 1 describes the properties of lenition and fortition: what counts as
such? What kind of behaviour is observed? Which factors bear on it
(positional, stress-related)? Which role has it played in phonology since
(and even before) the 19th century? The
everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-lenition-and-fortition
philosophy that guides the conception of the book supposes a descriptive,
generalisation-oriented style of writing that relies on a kind of
phonological lingua franca, rather than on theory-laden vocabulary. Also,
no prior knowledge other than about general phonological categories should
be required when reading through Part 1. The goal is to provide a broad
picture of what lenition is, how it behaves, which factors it is
conditioned by and what generalisations it obeys. This record may then be
used as a yardstick for competing theories.

Part 2 presents a number of case studies that show how Lenition/Fortition
behave in a number of  languages that include systems which are notoriously
emblematic for Lenition/Fortition: Celtic, Western Romance, Germanic and
Finnish.

Finally, Part 3 is concerned with the analysis of the patterns that have
been described in Parts 1 and 2. Given their analytic orientation, Part 3
chapters are theory-specific. They look at the same empirical record, or at
a subset thereof, and try to explain what they see. Even though Part 3
chapters are couched in a specific theoretical environment that most of the
time supposes prior conceptual knowledge, authors have been asked to assure
theoretical interoperability as much as they could. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Phonology


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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