Absolute ill-formedness and other morphophonological effects

Artikel

In this paper I explore the theoretical significance of phonologically conditioned gaps in word formation. The data support the original approach to gaps in Optimality Theory proposed by Prince & Smolensky (1993), which crucially involves MPARSE as a ranked and violable constraint. The alternative CONTROL model proposed by Orgun & Sprouse (1999) is found to be inadequate because of lost generalisations and technical flaws. It is shown that a careful distinction between various morphophonological effects (e.g. paradigm uniformity effects, phonological repair and ‘stem selection’) is necessary to shed light on the morphology–phonology interface. The data investigated here support affixspecific constraint rankings, but argue against any stratal organisation of morphology.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Phonologie ; Suffix ; Wortbildung ; Kontrastive Phonetik ; Englisch, Altenglisch ; Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Raffelsiefen, Renate
• (when): 2004
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-8701
• Last update: 06.03.2025, 9:00 AM CET