TY  - JOUR
A1  - Green, Antony Dubach
T1  - The independence of phonology and morphology: The Celtic mutations
JF  - Lingua : international review of general linguistics
N2  - One of the most important insights of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993) is that phonological processes can be reduced to the interaction between faithfulness and universal markedness principles. In the most constrained version of the theory, all phonological processes should be thus reducible. This hypothesis is tested by alternations that appear to be phonological but in which universal markedness principles appear to play no role. If we are to pursue the claim that all phonological processes depend on the interaction of faithfulness and markedness, then processes that are not dependent on markedness must lie outside phonology. In this paper I will examine a group of such processes, the initial consonant mutations of the Celtic languages, and argue that they belong entirely to the morphology of the languages, not the phonology.
KW  - Celtic mutations
KW  - word-based morphology
KW  - optimality theory
Y1  - 2006
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2004.09.002
SN  - 0024-3841
VL  - 116
IS  - 11
SP  - 1946
EP  - 1985
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Komen, Erwin R.
T1  - Branching constraints
JF  - Linguistics in Potsdam
N2  - Rejecting approaches with a directionality parameter, mainstream minimalism has adopted the notion of strict (or unidirectional) branching. Within optimality theory however, constraints have recently been proposed that presuppose that the branching direction scheme is language specific. I show that a syntactic analysis of Chechen word order and relative clauses using strict branching and movement triggered by feature checking seems very unlikely, whereas a directionality approach works well. I argue in favor of a mixed directionality approach for Chechen, where the branching direction scheme depends on the phrase type. This observation leads to the introduction of context variants of existing markedness constraints, in order to describe the branching processes in terms of optimality theory. The paper discusses how and where the optimality theory selection of the branching directions can be implemented within a minimalist derivation.
KW  - minimalist program
KW  - optimality theory
KW  - focus
KW  - branching
KW  - extraposition
KW  - Chechen
Y1  - 2009
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32273
SN  - 1616-7392
SN  - 1864-1857
IS  - 28
SP  - 157
EP  - 186
ER  -