Groups with the minimality condition for infinitely generated subgroups

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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A Second order minimality condition for a free-boundary problem

ANNALI SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE - CLASSE DI SCIENZE ◽

10.2422/2036-2145.201706_014 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 1303-1358

Author(s):

Irene Fonseca ◽

Giovanni Leoni ◽

Maria Giovanna Mora

Keyword(s):

Free Boundary ◽

Boundary Problem ◽

Free Boundary Problem ◽

Second Order ◽

Minimality Condition ◽

A Free Boundary Problem

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Groups with a Minimality Condition

Infinite Groups 1994 ◽

10.1515/9783110810387-022 ◽

1996 ◽

Author(s):

Vladimir I. Senashov

Keyword(s):

Minimality Condition

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On the Moraic Weight Representation of Geminates in Taguinian Algerian Arabic

International Journal of Linguistics ◽

10.5296/ijl.v12i2.16648 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

Meymouna Bourzeg ◽

Radwan S. Mahadin

Keyword(s):

Native Speakers ◽

Native Speaker ◽

Weight Bearing ◽

Spontaneous Speech ◽

Minimality Condition ◽

Tape Recording ◽

Minimal Size ◽

Note Taking ◽

Systematic Analysis ◽

Spoken Arabic

This study sheds light on the moraic representation of geminates in Taguinian Spoken Arabic (TSA), a dialect of Algerian Arabic. The examined data were primarily provided by the first researcher who is a native speaker of the variety under scrutiny. To increase data reliability, the spontaneous speech of five Taguinian native speakers was analyzed by means of note taking and tape recording. The researchers support geminates’ moraicity in TSA by proffering three pieces of evidence, namely bimoraic word minimality condition, word stress, and long vowel shortening before geminates. A systematic analysis of the data via the use of optimality framework comes out with the following findings. First, the presence of CVG words demonstrates that geminates, in this variety, are underlyingly weight bearing since the minimal size of prosodic words is bimoraic. Second, the mechanism by which stress is attracted to CVG syllables proves that CVG syllables are heavy syllables wherein its second mora is carried by the geminate consonant. Third, the non-cooccurrence of long vowels and geminate consonants within the same syllable is another proof for the moraicity of geminates as trimoraic syllables are banned in TSA.

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