Phonology and Morphology of the Germanic Languages

The papers collected in this volume apply principles of phonology and morphology to the Germanic languages. Phonological phenomena range from subsegmental over phonemic to prosodic units (as syllables, pitch accent, stress). Morphology includes properties of roots, derivation, inflection, and words. The analyses deal with language-internal and comparative aspects, covering the whole (European) range of Germanic languages.

From a theoretical perspective, most papers concentrate on constraint-based approaches. Crucial to those theories are principles of the phonology-morphology interaction, both within and between languages. The well documented Germanic languages provide an excellent field for research and almost all papers deal with aspects of the interface.

Résumé

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

Contenu

Contents: Section I: Phonology: Kristján Arnason, Vowel shortness in Icelandic. - Janet Grijzenhout, The role of coronal specification in German and Dutch phonology and morphology. - Albert Ortmann, Consonant epenthesis: its distribution and phonological specification. - Tomas Riad, Towards a Scandinavian accent typology. - Section II: Prosodic morphology: Birgit Alber, Stress preservation in German loan words. - Geert Booij, Phonological output constraints in morphology. - Chris Golston/Richard Wiese, The structure of the German root. - Harry van der Hulst/Jan G. Kooij, Prosodic choices and the Dutch nominal plural. - Ingo Plag, Morphological haplology in a constraint-based morpho-phonology. - Section III: Morphology: Martin Neef, A case study in declarative morphology: German case inflection. - Carsten Steins, Against arbitrary features in inflection: Old English declension classes. - Susi Wurmbrand, Heads or phrases? Particles in particular.