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What is CVCV and why should it be? (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
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What is CVCV and why should it be? (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
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This book presents a development of Jean Lowenstamm's idea that
phonological constituent structure can be reduced to a strict
sequence of non-branching Onsets and non-branching Nuclei. The
approach at hand is known as 'CVCV', and emerged from Government
Phonology. Since its very beginnings in the early 80s, the central
claim of this theory has been that syllable-based generalisations
are due to lateral relations among constituents, rather than to the
familiar arboreal structure. This book shows that Standard
Government Phonology did not go far enough in implementing this
idea. CVCV completes the missing steps: structure and causality are
fully lateralised. Detailed discussion is offered how basic
phonological objects and processes such as Codas, closed syllables,
long vowels, geminates, syllabic consonants, vowel-zero
alternations, closed syllable shortening, compensatory lengthening,
lenition and the like can be represented within the CVCV frame. The
first part of the book is called "What is CVCV ?". It presents the
properties of the theory. The second part focuses on the reasons
why it is worthwhile considering CVCV a valuable and viable
approach. The primary goal of the book is not to engage the
dialogue with other phonological theories. Rather, it aims at
establishing a player in the general game: defining the properties
of a theory is always prior to its comparison with other models. In
the current OT-dominated phonological scene, then, CVCV appears as
a true theory of the 80s insofar as it is representational at core:
representations exist and are primitive, rather than arising as
accidental results from a heterogeneous set of constraints. The
original analyses presented in this book are grounded in the
languages that the author is best familiar with, i.e. (Western)
Slavic, French, German and some Semitic. Particular attention is
paid to diachronic evidence in its relation to the synchronic state
of languages.
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