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This volume presents current work on a topic in Romance linguistics
that still informs linguistic theory to this day: metaphony in the
languages of Italy. Papers discuss fundamental research topics such
as phonological opacity in the light of chain shifts, post-tonic
harmony and consonant transparency, the role of morphosyntax in the
typology of metaphony, the explanatory adequacy of feature-based
versus element-based analyses, and the locus of metaphony in
grammar. Other chapters present new experimental data, thus
building a more accurate empirical foundation for the study of
metaphony. We envision the volume to become a reference book not
only for an updated descriptive survey of metaphonic patterns in
Italy but also a thorough discussion of the challenges that
metaphony poses for different (morpho)phonological theories. The
book bridges the gap between descriptive works and theoretical
thinking in the study of metaphony.
Formal grammars by definition need two parts: a theory of
computation (or derivation), and a theory of representation. While
recent attention in mainstream syntactic and phonological theory
has been devoted to the former, the papers in this volume aim to
show that the importance of representational details is not
diminished by the insights of such theories.
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the
main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This
branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is
concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of
linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into
the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high
quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues.
The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from
syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to
studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a
proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert
This book contains a number of studies on modern approaches to
phonological segment structure. There are three main sections: (i)
a general section, concerned with the basic theory of segmental
structure, features, and the organization of segmental structure
into feature-geometric trees, (ii) the representation and behaviour
of nasality, and (iii) the representation and behaviour of the
laryngeal features.
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