Inflectional Morphology in Harmonic Serialism - Gereon Müller
From Optimality Theory to Harmonic Serialism
Inflectional Morphology in Harmonic Serialism - Gereon Müller
Gereon Müller [+]
Universität Leipzig
Description
The fi rst chapter lays out standard parallel optimality-theoretic approaches to in flectional morphology (based on work like Grimshaw (2001), Trommer (2001; 2003; 2006), Wunderlich (2004), Don & Blom (2006), Ortmann (2002; 2004), Stiebels (2000; 2002; 2006)). A main result of standard parallel optimality theoretic approaches to infl ectional morphology is that the two basic principles of morphological realization by underspecifi ed exponents - viz., compatibility and specificity - do not have to be stipulated (as they are. e.g., in the Subset Principle in Distributed Morphology, or in Panini's Principle in Paradigm Function Morphology) but follow from the interaction of IDENT and MAX contstraints, respectively.