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The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky

Kristin Hanson and Sharon Inkelas

Abstract

Paul Kiparsky's work in linguistics has been wide ranging and fundamental. Kiparsky's contributions as a scholar and teacher have transformed virtually every subfield of contemporary linguistics, from generative phonology to poetic theory. This collection of essays on the word—the fundamental entity of language—by Kiparsky's colleagues, students, and teachers reflects the distinctive focus of his own attention and his influence in the field. As the editors of the book observe, Kiparsky approaches words much as a botanist approaches plants, fascinated equally by their beauty, structure, and evo ... More

Keywords: linguistics, Paul Kiparsky, phonology, word, language, morphology, syntax, semantics, literary theory

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9780262083799
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: September 2013 DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262083799.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Kristin Hanson, editor

Sharon Inkelas, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Current Studies in Linguistics

Epigraph

Preface

Biography of Paul Kiparsky

I Metrics

1 On “The Phonological Basis of Sound Change” (after Hopkins)

Andrew Garrett

2 On Stress and Meter and on English Iambics in Particular

Morris Halle

3 Nonlexical Word Stress in the English Iambic Pentameter: A Study of John Donne

Kristin Hanson

4 The Prosodic Word as a Unit in Poetic Meter

Draga Zec

5 The Word in Tiberian Hebrew

Bezalel Elan Dresher

6 Faithfulness and Componentiality in Metrics

Bruce Hayes

II Phonology and Morphology

7 The Phonology of Perceptibility Effects: The P-Map and Its Consequences for Constraint Organization

Donca Steriade

8 Vowel Duration, Syllable Quantity, and Stress in Dutch

Carlos Gussenhoven

9 Sympathy Meets Argentinian Spanish

Ellen M. Kaisse

10 Vowel Length, Cyclicity, and Output-Output Correspondence

Cemil Orhan Orgun

11 Level Ordering in Nuuchahnulth

John Stonham

12 Inside Access: The Prosodic Role of Internal Morphological Constituency

Patricia A. Shaw

13 Morphosyntactic Correspondence in Bantu Reduplication

Larry M. Hyman, Inkelas Sharon, and Sibanda Galen

14 Patterns of Reduplication in Yoruba

Douglas Pulleyblank

15 Multiple Tenses in the Malayalam Verb

Tara Mohanan, and K. P. Mohanan

16 On Pāṇini 2.4.81 (āma?)

S. D. Joshi, and J. A. F. Roodbergen

III The Lexicon and Change

17 Lexical Irregularity and the Typology of Contrast

René Kager

18 Derived Environment Effects in Colloquial Helsinki Finnish

Arto Anttila

19 A Historical Perspective on Nonderived Environment Blocking: The Case of Korean Palatalization

Young-mee Yu Cho

20 Lexical Storage and Phonological Change

Geert Booij

21 The Dental Preterites in the History of English

Aditi Lahiri

22 Analogical Morphophonology

Andrew Garrett, and Juliette Blevins

IV Syntax and Semantics

23 Second-Position Clitics in Tagalog

Stephen R. Anderson

24 “Elsewhere” in Gender Resolution

Stephen Wechsler

25 The Force of Lexical Case: German and Icelandic Compared

Dieter Wunderlich

26 Constraints on Source/Goal Co-occurrence in Carrier

William J. Poser

27 Punctual Until as a Scalar NPI

Cleo Condoravdi

28 The Existential Tense in Hungarian

Christopher Piñón

V Poetics

29 The Art of Fusion

Haj Ross

End Matter

References

Contributors

Language Index

Subject Index