Daniel Currie Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3851176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Currie Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel Currie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Meertens Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5831-6679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Morphosemantic features in Universal Grammar
This article analyzes Marshallese pronouns and demonstratives, arguing that both privative and binary morphosemantic features are necessary, and that the two types coexist in a single domain. Marshallese encodes number with atomic , and person with [ $\pm$ author] and [ $\pm$ participant]. In the complex system of Marshallese demonstratives, atomic and [ $\pm$ human] map to the same head, subject to a constraint that only one feature appears at a…
The road not taken
This article examines a turning point in the history of the theory of phonological distinctive features. In Morris Halle’s (1959) The Sound Pattern of Russian , features are organized into a contrastive hierarchy designed to minimize the number of specified features. Redundancy rules, however, ensure that the resulting underspecification has no real phonological consequences and, in subsequent generative approaches to phonology, contrastive hiera…
Person and deixis in Heiltsuk pronouns
Harbour (2016) argues for a parsimonious universal set of features for grammatical person distinctions, and suggests (ch. 7) that the same features may also form the basis for systems of deixis. We apply this proposal to an analysis of Heiltsuk, a Wakashan language with a particularly rich set of person-based deictic contrasts (Rath 1981). Heiltsuk demonstratives and third-person pronominal enclitics distinguish proximal-to-speaker, proximal-to-a…
The rise of contrastive modality in English
This paper proposes an account of the morphosyntactic and semantic changes involved in the historical development of the English modals as a distinct category. Adopting a neoparametric approach, in which a language's inventory of grammatical features may change over time, we show that a cluster of related surface changes can be accounted for by positing that the featuremodalitywas added to English tense/mood system. While the most immediate manif…
Phonological contrast and its phonetic enhancement
This paper offers a novel account of a familiar typological observation, namely the tendency of phonological inventories to consist of segments that are dispersed through the available auditory space. In contrast to previous approaches, which have treated dispersion as a goal explicitly encoded in the grammar, this paper shows that the cross-linguistic pattern follows automatically from the interaction of two independently motivated factors: phon…
Probing the unnatural
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The road not taken
This article examines a turning point in the history of the theory of phonological distinctive features. In Morris Halle’s (1959) The Sound Pattern of Russian , features are organized into a contrastive hierarchy designed to minimize the number of specified features. Redundancy rules, however, ensure that the resulting underspecification has no real phonological consequences and, in subsequent generative approaches to phonology, contrastive hiera…
Probing the unnatural
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Phonological contrast and its phonetic enhancement
This paper offers a novel account of a familiar typological observation, namely the tendency of phonological inventories to consist of segments that are dispersed through the available auditory space. In contrast to previous approaches, which have treated dispersion as a goal explicitly encoded in the grammar, this paper shows that the cross-linguistic pattern follows automatically from the interaction of two independently motivated factors: phon…
The rise of contrastive modality in English
This paper proposes an account of the morphosyntactic and semantic changes involved in the historical development of the English modals as a distinct category. Adopting a neoparametric approach, in which a language's inventory of grammatical features may change over time, we show that a cluster of related surface changes can be accounted for by positing that the featuremodalitywas added to English tense/mood system. While the most immediate manif…
Person and deixis in Heiltsuk pronouns
Harbour (2016) argues for a parsimonious universal set of features for grammatical person distinctions, and suggests (ch. 7) that the same features may also form the basis for systems of deixis. We apply this proposal to an analysis of Heiltsuk, a Wakashan language with a particularly rich set of person-based deictic contrasts (Rath 1981). Heiltsuk demonstratives and third-person pronominal enclitics distinguish proximal-to-speaker, proximal-to-a…
The road not taken
This article examines a turning point in the history of the theory of phonological distinctive features. In Morris Halle’s (1959) The Sound Pattern of Russian , features are organized into a contrastive hierarchy designed to minimize the number of specified features. Redundancy rules, however, ensure that the resulting underspecification has no real phonological consequences and, in subsequent generative approaches to phonology, contrastive hiera…
Morphosemantic features in Universal Grammar
This article analyzes Marshallese pronouns and demonstratives, arguing that both privative and binary morphosemantic features are necessary, and that the two types coexist in a single domain. Marshallese encodes number with atomic , and person with [ $\pm$ author] and [ $\pm$ participant]. In the complex system of Marshallese demonstratives, atomic and [ $\pm$ human] map to the same head, subject to a constraint that only one feature appears at a…
Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Grammar (2 works)