Berlin De Gruyter Mouton 2004 Reprint 2012. Hard cover New. 913 p. Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] . 1 Illustrations, color. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. Intended for college/higher education audience.

ISBN10: 3110178710, ISBN13: 9783110178715, [publisher: De Gruyter Mouton] Hardcover
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

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ISBN10: 3110178710, ISBN13: 9783110178715, [publisher: De Gruyter Mouton] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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: ...
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