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ISBN: 9783110238631

Content: This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II. Structuralist and generative interface thinking is presented chronologically, but also theory by theory from the point of view of a historically interested observer who however in the last third of the book distills lessons in order to assess present-day interface theories, and to establish a catalogue of properties that a correct interface theory should or must not have. The book also introduces modularity, the rationalist theory of the (human) cognitive system that underlies the generative approach to language, from a Cognitive Science perspective. Modularity is used as a referee for interface theories in the book. Finally, the book locates the interface debate in the landscape of current minimalist syntax and phase theory and fosters intermodular argumentation: how can we use properties of morpho-syntactic theory in order to argue for or against competing theories of phonology (and vice-versa)?

Note: Frontmatter -- , Table of contents – overview -- , Introduction -- , Part One – Morpho-syntactic information in phonology: a survey since Trubetzkoy's Grenzsignale -- , 1. The spectrum: what morpho-syntactic information can do to phonology -- , 2. Trubetzkoy's Grenzsignale -- , 3. American structuralism: juncture phonemes -- , 4. Chomsky, Halle & Lukoff (1956) -- , 5. SPE sets the standards for 40 years -- , 6. The life of boundaries in post-SPE times -- , 7. Lexical Phonology -- , 8. Halle & Vergnaud (1987a): selective spell-out and SPE-restoration -- , 9. Kaye (1995): selective spell-out and modification-inhibiting no look-back -- , 10. Prosodic Phonology: on the representational side -- , 11. Optimality Theory -- , 12. Distributed Morphology -- , Interlude – Modularity -- , 1. Introduction: the relative absence of modularity in interface thinking -- , 2. Modularity and connectionism, mind and brain -- , 3. The modular architecture of the mind: where it comes from -- , 4. The modular architecture of the mind: how it works -- , 5. Modularity of and in language, related systems -- , 6. How modules communicate -- , Part Two – Lessons from interface theories -- , 1. A guide to the interface jungle -- , 2. Empirical generalisations -- , 3. Issues that are settled -- , 4. Modularity, translation, the diacritic issue and local vs. domain-based intervention: settled in verb, but not in fact -- , 5. Open questions (general) -- , 6. Open questions (procedural) -- , Conclusion – Intermodular argumentation -- , Backmatter , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-023862-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110238631

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238631