Paradigms and Opacity: Volume One Volume 140

by Paul Kiparsky

Book Overview

This book is about how the vocabulary of a language is built and how similarities and differences between word forms can be explained, integrating optimality theory (OT) with lexical phonology and morphology. It shows that the phonology and morphology of stems, words, and sentences is governed by distinct constraint systems which may differ in the ranking of faithfulness constraints, and that these constraint systems are serially linked. Parallel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575861968
• ISBN13: 9781575861968
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 544 Pages