Voice assimilation in English as an effect of transderivational anti-faithfulness

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Sechang Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제42권 제1호, 119~140쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.03.31

국문 초록

The main goal of this paper is to develop the core mechanism illuminating the generalization behind voice assimilation in English. Progressive voice assimilation is, as a default option, most frequently attested in the English data. On the basis of theoretical foundations and results within the constraint-based framework of Optimality Theory and Transderivational Anti-Faithfulness, our analysis provides an effective means for analyzing the voice assimilation at hand. The argument is based on and developed from such contrastive forms as cats and halves. An anti-faithfulness constraint is employed to deal with the semi-productive or irregular nature of the idiosyncratic plural suffix -z. In addition,the base-changing plural suffix -z will invoke lexically-subcategorized anti-faithful ranking of constraints. Such a simple and natural strategy is claimed to allow us to preserve general theory of English grammar at a minimum cost.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Paradigm and issue

3. Output-output faithfulness and anti-faithfulness

4. Proposal

5. Analysis

6. Previous treatments

7. Conclusion

References

키워드

voice assimilation plural suffix anti-faithfulness regressive progressive subcategorization