Ungeneralizable minimality in Ndebele

A body of work in Prosodic Morphology clearly establishes the importance of prosodic constituents like the foot as templates conditioning morpheme size. A striking finding of this research is that morphological footing is independent of metrical footing in many languages, as the footing required for...

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Autor principal:	Laura J. Downing
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2001
Materias:	prosodic morphology footing Ndebele GTH Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:16d24d7b23a94f35af7ad7e16f169dc12021-11-19T03:53:36ZUngeneralizable minimality in Ndebele10.32473/sal.v30i1.1073600039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/16d24d7b23a94f35af7ad7e16f169dc12001-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107360https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XA body of work in Prosodic Morphology clearly establishes the importance of prosodic constituents like the foot as templates conditioning morpheme size. A striking finding of this research is that morphological footing is independent of metrical footing in many languages, as the footing required for particular morphological processes is often not identical to that required for phonological processes like stress assignment. However, recent OT research on Prosodic Morphology has made the opposite claim. Within this theory, the Generalized Template Hypothesis (GTH) proposes that no morpheme-particular templates defining minimal and maximal size are necessary. Instead, templates are always derivable from general principles of the grammar, like independently motivated metrical footing. This paper presents evidence from Ndebele showing that the GTH is too strong. In Ndebele, several different verb forms are subject to a minimality condition. In some cases, the minimality condition can be derived through independent metrical footing, as the GTH predicts. However, in several cases it cannot, showing that morpheme-particular size constraints are still a necessary part of the grammar.Laura J. DowningLibraryPress@UFarticleprosodic morphologyfootingNdebeleGTHPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 30, Iss 1 (2001)
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description	A body of work in Prosodic Morphology clearly establishes the importance of prosodic constituents like the foot as templates conditioning morpheme size. A striking finding of this research is that morphological footing is independent of metrical footing in many languages, as the footing required for particular morphological processes is often not identical to that required for phonological processes like stress assignment. However, recent OT research on Prosodic Morphology has made the opposite claim. Within this theory, the Generalized Template Hypothesis (GTH) proposes that no morpheme-particular templates defining minimal and maximal size are necessary. Instead, templates are always derivable from general principles of the grammar, like independently motivated metrical footing. This paper presents evidence from Ndebele showing that the GTH is too strong. In Ndebele, several different verb forms are subject to a minimality condition. In some cases, the minimality condition can be derived through independent metrical footing, as the GTH predicts. However, in several cases it cannot, showing that morpheme-particular size constraints are still a necessary part of the grammar.
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title	Ungeneralizable minimality in Ndebele
title_short	Ungeneralizable minimality in Ndebele
title_full	Ungeneralizable minimality in Ndebele
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Ungeneralizable minimality in Ndebele

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