Expressing Inflection Tonally

Expressing Inflection Tonally

In Limburg Dutch, the difference between neuter and feminine agreement on adjectives is expressed by a difference in lexical tone. This paper argues that this distinction is due to a difference in underlying representations and not to a paradigmatic antifaithfulness effect. In particular, it argues...

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Autor principal: Marcel van Oostendorp
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Lenguaje:CA
EN
Publicado: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2005
Materias:
dialectology
lexical tones
morphology-phonology interface
Optimality Theory
paradigm uniformity
Dutch
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6be1ba6179fe40a7b0eb071b1f401f1d2021-11-27T10:49:02ZExpressing Inflection Tonally10.5565/rev/catjl.1151695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/6be1ba6179fe40a7b0eb071b1f401f1d2005-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/115https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719In Limburg Dutch, the difference between neuter and feminine agreement on adjectives is expressed by a difference in lexical tone. This paper argues that this distinction is due to a difference in underlying representations and not to a paradigmatic antifaithfulness effect. In particular, it argues for a specific version of REALIZE-MORPHEME, the constraint demanding every underlying morpheme to be present in phonological surface representations. The key argument is that a schwa suffix turns up whenever the tonal change from neuter to feminine is not possible.Marcel van OostendorpUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticledialectologylexical tonesmorphology-phonology interfaceOptimality Theoryparadigm uniformityDutchPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 4, Iss 1 (2005)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language CA
EN
topic dialectology
lexical tones
morphology-phonology interface
Optimality Theory
paradigm uniformity
Dutch
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle dialectology
lexical tones
morphology-phonology interface
Optimality Theory
paradigm uniformity
Dutch
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Marcel van Oostendorp
Expressing Inflection Tonally
description In Limburg Dutch, the difference between neuter and feminine agreement on adjectives is expressed by a difference in lexical tone. This paper argues that this distinction is due to a difference in underlying representations and not to a paradigmatic antifaithfulness effect. In particular, it argues for a specific version of REALIZE-MORPHEME, the constraint demanding every underlying morpheme to be present in phonological surface representations. The key argument is that a schwa suffix turns up whenever the tonal change from neuter to feminine is not possible.
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