Prosodic Smothering in Macedonian and Kaqchikel

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4902991
AutoresR Bennett (0000-0001-6160-7007, University of California, Santa Cruz), Boris Harizanov (Stanford University), Robert Henderson (0009-0007-9492-8975, University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics, 1103 East University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85719)
Año2018
Volumen49
Número2
Páginas195-246
Fecha de publicación2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
EditorialThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00272
OpenAlexW2795775703
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas76

This article deals with a so-far unnoticed phenomenon in prosodic phonology, which we dub prosodic smothering. Prosodic smothering arises when the prosodic status of a clitic or affix varies with the presence or absence of some outer morpheme. We first illustrate prosodic smothering with novel data from two genetically unrelated languages, Macedonian (Slavic) and Kaqchikel (Mayan). We then provide a unified account of prosodic smothering based on a principled extension of the theory of prosodic subcategorization (e.g., Inkelas 1990 , Peperkamp 1997 , Chung 2003 , Yu 2003 , Paster 2006 , Bye 2007 ). Prosodic subcategorization typically involves requirements placed on items to the left or the right of the selecting morpheme. We show that prosodic smothering naturally emerges in a theory that also allows for subcategorization in the vertical dimension, such that morphemes may select for the prosodic category that immediately dominates them in surface prosodic structure. This extension successfully reduces two apparent cases of nonlocal prosodic conditioning to the effects of strictly local prosodic selection

Affix · Clitic · Linguistics · Morpheme · Phonology · Smothering · Subcategorization · Verb · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation