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Markedness and Faithfulness in Vowel Systems
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Unusual Iceland
A photo book with unusual, funny, or off-the-beaten-track original pictures of Iceland (taken by photographer Þórður K. Jónasson), included some from the area where a massacre of Basque whalers took place in 1615. The texts in the book are aimed at educating readers and potential tourists about a respectful and sustainable approach to visiting Iceland, or any other country/area whose ecosystems are as delicate as the Icelandic ones. It can be taken as a photo book, simply to appreciate the beauty of the country through pictures, or readers can find out more about the pictures and read the captions or narrative parts at the back of the book. Their location aims at allowing readers that just want to look at the photos to do so undisturbed, and those that want to know more, just refer to the back to the endnotes. Text and notes are by Viola G. Miglio, a certified Icelandic tour guide for 20 years.
Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems
Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such as optimality theory, with the help of local conjunction. Miglio extends the device of local conjunction to model opaque relations, and calls for reranking and lexicon optimization as the means to capture change within optimality theory.
Untranslatability Goes Global
This book promotes interdisciplinary dialogue about untranslatability and its implications within the context of globalization. It examines at the pragmatics of translation practice, the role of the translator’s voice and the translator as author in specific literary works, and case studies across a variety of genres and traditions across regions.
Optimality Theory and Language Change
This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a complete bibliography on OT and language change. It is of interest to historical linguists, researchers into OT and linguistic theory, and phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.
Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects
This book explores cross linguistic variation in nasalization.
Distinctiveness, Coercion and Sonority
This volume proposes a unified weight theory that challenges traditionally held beliefs regarding the vowel/consonant dichotomy inherent in moraicity and illuminates many previously intractable issues.
Vowel Patterns in Language
Linguists researching the sounds of languages do not just study lists of sounds but seek to discover generalizations about sound patterns by grouping them into categories. They study the common properties of each category and identify what distinguishes one category from another. Vowel patterns, for instance, are analysed and compared across languages to identify phonological similarities and differences. This account of vowel patterns in language brings a wealth of cross-linguistic material to the study of vowel systems and offers theoretical insights. Informed by research in speech perception and production, it addresses the fundamental question of how the relative prominence of word position influences vowel processes and distributions. The book combines a cross-linguistic focus with detailed case studies. Descriptions and analyses are provided for vowel patterns in over 25 languages from around the world, with particular emphasis on minor Romance languages and on the diachronic development of the German umlaut.
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: General papers
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches functionalists and formalists in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection of the papers originally presented at the symposium. Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson, Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alice Davidson, Mark Durie, Ken Hale, Michael Hammond, Bruce P. Hayes, Nina Hyams, Howard Lasnik, Brian MacWh...
Japanese Morphophonemics
The first book-length treatment of Japanese phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory.
