Prosodic Morphology in Optimality Theory

9420424 韵律形态学是研究韵律如何在构词中发挥作用的学科。韵律学研究音节的结构和音节所组成的较大单位，如重音步和音韵词。韵律对构词的影响是多方面的，但在重叠等现象中尤为突出。 优选论（OT）是语言形式上的约束如何相互作用的模型。OT中的一个基本概念是约束是相对于彼此排名的，并且当违反导致满足更高排名的约束时，约束被违反。因为它是一种非常通用的约束交互方法，并且因为它可以处理非常不同的约束（例如韵律约束和形态约束）的交互，所以OT是一个特别适合应用于PM的框架。 本计画的目的是研究专案管理理论与作业论的交叉领域。初步结果强烈表明，这些理论中的每一个都将导致对另一个更好的理解，并且两者结合起来将为语言现象提供新的见解。基于以前的工作，一些可能的假设和潜在的生产力的研究问题已经确定。这些假设和问题将通过对重叠、中缀、词根和模式形态学以及形态学截断等现象的大量实证研究来研究。将进行跨语言调查和对特定语言系统的深入研究。结果将在几篇文章中报告，并在项目结束时，在总结所有材料的专著中报告。

9420424 Prosodic Morphology (PM) is the study of how prosody plays a role in word formation. Prosody deals with the structure of syllables and the larger units into which they are grouped, stress-feet and phonological words. Prosody impinges on word formation in various ways, but particularly conspicuously in phenomena like reduplication. Optimality Theory (OT) is a model of how constraints on linguistic form interact with one another. A fundamental notion in OT is the idea that constraints are ranked with respect to one another, and that constraints are violated when violation leads to satisfaction of a higher-ranking constraint. Because it is a very general approach to constraint interaction, and because it can deal with the interaction of very diverse constraints (such as constraints on prosody and constraints on morphology), OT is a particularly apt framework to apply to PM. The goal of this project is to study the areas where the theory of PM intersects with OT. Preliminary results strongly indicate that each of these theories will lead to a better understanding of the other, and that the two together will shed new light on linguistic phenomena. Based on previous work, a number of likely hypotheses and potentially productive research questions have been identified. These hypotheses and questions will be studied through extensive empirical investigation of phenomena like reduplication, infixation, root-and-pattern morphology, and morphological truncation. Both cross-language surveys and intensive study of the systems of particular languages will be undertaken. The results will be reported in several articles and, at the conclusion of the project, in a monograph summarizing all of the material.