Tracy Alan Hall, Indiana University
In this course we will investigate two of the ways in which phonology and morphology interact. The first topic to be dealt with is phonologically-conditioned suppletive allomorphy, e.g. the distribution of a vs. an in English. The second topic is paradigm uniformity, i.e. the tendency to avoid allomorphy within a paradigm. The goal of the class is to compare various theoretical approaches to allomorphy and paradigm uniformity, in particular standard derivational approaches vs. output-oriented approaches such as Optimality Theory. Data will be drawn from a wide variety of languages. Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of derivational phonology and Optimality Theory.
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