The Morphosyntax-Phonology Connection

The essays in this volume address a core question regarding the structure of linguistic systems: how much access do the grammatical components - syntax, morphology and phonology - have to each other? The book's fifteen essays make a powerful argument in favor of a particular view of the interaction of these various components, shedding light on the nature of locality domains for allomorph selection, the morphosyntactic properties of the targets of phonological exponence, and adjudicating between competing theories of morphosyntaxphonology interaction. These words incorporate insights from recent theoretical developments such as Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology, and insights made available to us by contemporary empirical methodologies, including field work and experimental and corpus-based quantitative work.

Vera Gribanova is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Her research explores the principles that connect word and sentence structure to (morpho-)phonological structure, primarily in Russian, Bulgarian and Uzbek. Stephanie S. Shih is an Assistant Professor in Cognitive & Information Sciences at University of California, Merced. Her research centers on understanding how sound patterns interface with the larger linguistic and cognitive system, as informed by quantitative, corpus-based approaches to the study of natural language.

Introduction 1. Global Optimization in Allomorph Selection: Two case studies Alan C. L. Yu 2. Outwards-sensitive phonologically-conditioned allomorphy in Nez Perce Amy Rose Deal and Matthew Wolf 3. Locality and Directionality in Inward-Sensitive Allomorphy: Russian and Bulgarian Vera Gribanova and Boris Harizanov 4. Locality Conditions on Suppletive Verbs in Hiaki Heidi Harley, Mercedes Tubino, and Jason D. Haugen 5. Global Effects in Kashaya Prosodic Structure Eugene Buckley 6. Stress, Phrasing, and Auxiliary Contraction in English Arto Anttila 7. The Role of Prosody in Clitic Placement Draga Zec and Dusica Filipovic-Durdevic 8. Prosodic Well-formedness and Comparative Grammaticality: Morphology and Periphrasis in the English Comparative Matthew E. Adams 9. Phonological influences in syntactic alternations Stephanie S. Shih 10. On the Targets of Phonological Realization David Embick 11. The Directionality and Locality of Allomorphic Conditioning in Optimal Construction Morphology Sharon Inkelas 12. Declension Class and the Norwegian Definite Suffix Peter Svenonius 13. The Morphology of the Basque Auxiliary: Thoughts on Arregi & Nevins 2012 Paul Kiparsky 14. Presyntactic Morphology or Postsyntactic Morphology and Explanatoriness in the Basque Auxiliary Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins 15. Diachronic Sources of Allomorphy Mary Paster Afterword Sharon Inkelas