Avis de parution: Direct Interface and One-Channel Translation

[Tobias Scheer]

Avis de parution

Author: Tobias Scheer
Title: Direct Interface and One-Channel Translation
A Non-Diacritic Theory of the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface.
Vol.2 of A Lateral Theory of phonology.

Series Title: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 68.2
Published: 2012
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton 
<http://www.degruyter.com/mouton>http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: 
<http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/181684?format=G>http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/181684?format=G 

Electronic: ISBN: 9781614511113 Pages: 378 Price: Europe EURO 109.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781614511083 Pages: 378 Price: Europe EURO 109.95

Abstract:
Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface 
Theories that the author has published in 2011 and which is written 
from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author's 
own approach to the representational side of the interface.
The book is thus about how information is transmitted to phonology 
when an object is inserted into phonological representations (as 
opposed to the derivational means, i.e. phase theory today). The idea 
of Direct Interface is that diacritics such as hash-marks # in SPE or 
prosodic constituency since the early 80s, which mediate between 
morpho-syntax and phonology, are illegal in a modular environment 
where computational systems can only process domain-specific vocabulary.
Direct Interface instead holds that only truly phonological 
vocabulary can carry morpho-syntactic information. It is shown that 
of all representational objects only syllabic space qualifies.
Couched in CVCV (or strict CV), i.e. Government Phonology, this 
insight is then applied in detailed case studies of Belarusian, 
Corsican, Greek and the exhaustive lexical inventory of 
sonorant-obstruent-initial words in 13 Slavic languages,. In this 
sense, the book is the 2nd volume of A Lateral Theory of Phonology 
that the author has published in 2004.



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