scholarly journals Prosodic Morphology and Templatic Morphology

1990 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McCarthy ◽  
Alan Prince
Keyword(s):  
Prosodic Morphology ◽  
Templatic Morphology

An Analysis of Verbal Extensions in Malawian Tonga: Towards Mirror Principle and Templatic Morphology

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Mexon Manda ◽  
Wellman Kondowe ◽  
Flemmings Fishani Ngwira ◽  
Lydia Kishindo
Keyword(s):  
Argument Structure ◽  
Bantu Languages ◽  
Templatic Morphology ◽  
Mirror Principle ◽  
Affix Ordering

The question on affix ordering is among the central concerns in morphological analyses of Bantu languages, with most studies drawing insights from Mirror Principle and Templatic Morphology theoretical underpinnings. However, it remains debatable to a larger extent on whether conclusions drawn from such studies can be extended to all languages with agglutinative morphological structures. This study was carried out to examine the structure of suffix ordering in Malawian Tonga by examining the two theories. On morpheme co-occurrence, the study reveals that causatives and applicatives, as argument-structure increasing suffixes, should always precede other extensions which are argument-structure reducing suffixes in order to be consistent with the tenets of the two theories. However, there are some observable cases where prescriptions of these theories breed ungrammatical structures in Tonga.

Templates as the interaction of recursive word structure and prosodic well-formedness

Phonology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ara Guekguezian
Keyword(s):  
Word Structure ◽  
Prosodic Word ◽  
Templatic Morphology ◽  
Special Apparatus ◽  
Whole Word

Templatic morphology involves the appearance of a fixed shape on a morpheme in a specific morphological context. This paper makes two claims: the morphological context of a template is syntactically cyclic, resulting in recursive prosodic word structure, and the shape of a template results from prosodic well-formedness conditions on the internal prosodic word. Templatic morphology in Chukchansi Yokuts illustrates these claims: affixes that trigger templates transfer the root to the phonology before other material is transferred, so that the root forms a prosodic word which is internal to the whole word. Roots with one underlying vowel are augmented to meet a disyllabic minimality requirement on prosodic words; the resulting disyllable forms a light–heavy iamb, to optimally satisfy Chukchansi parsing requirements. Templatic morphology falls out from the predictable interaction of the syntax–phonology interface and general phonological properties of a language, and needs no special apparatus or diacritics.

scholarly journals Ungeneralizable minimality in Ndebele

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-58
Author(s):  
Laura J. Downing
Keyword(s):  
Minimality Condition ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
Stress Assignment ◽  
Prosodic Morphology ◽  
Striking Finding ◽  
Maximal Size ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Size Constraints ◽  
Morphological Processes

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.

scholarly journals Faithfulness and identity in Prosodic Morphology

1999 ◽  
pp. 218-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. McCarthy ◽  
Alan S. Prince
Keyword(s):  
Prosodic Morphology

scholarly journals Faithfulness and Identity in Prosodic Morphology

2008 ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. McCarthy ◽  
Alan Prince
Keyword(s):  
Prosodic Morphology

scholarly journals Cyclic Agreement and Empty Slots in Pazar Laz

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Ümt Atlamaz
Keyword(s):  
Background Information ◽  
Data Section ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Templatic Morphology ◽  
Verbal Agreement

This paper discusses the compatibility of templatic morphology and cyclic agreement on verbal agreement prefixes in Pazar Laz. It is based on templatic morphology and introduces the following questions: Can agreement slots on verbal agreement remain empty through the steps of derivation? Is there insertion of a dummy element in cases when arguments are deficient in terms of agreement The organization of the paper is as the following: It first introduces the relevant background information about templatic morphology and then, it presents data from Pazar Laz to show that it has a templatic morphology on verbs. In section 3 we propose a cyclic agreement model based on Bejar and Rezac (2009) and discuss with relevant data. Section 4 summarizes and concludes the paper.

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