Living on the Edge: 28 Papers in Honour of Jonathan Kaye (Studies in Generative Grammar, 64)

This collection of papers by an international group of authors honors Jonathan Kaye's contributions to phonology by expanding some of Kaye's ideas to a variety of theoretical topics and languages. The set of ideas discussed or used in this collection includes: empty categories, licensing relationships and constraints, a restrictive two-levelled approach to phonology (without rule ordering or constraint ranking), a restrictive theory of syllabic representation (without the codas constituent and with exclusively binary branching), theories of the phonology-phonetics interface in which phonology is motivated independently of phonetics, and the metatheoretical flaws in a number of widely accepted but rarely questioned views on phonology. Meno's paradox and the acquisition of grammar / B. Elan Dresher On the logical order of development in acquiring prosodic structure / Nancy A. Ritter On the computability of certain derivations in government phonology / Geoff Williams Structure paradoxes in phonology / Harry van der Hulst An x-bar theory of government phonology / John R. Rennison and Friedrich Neubarth Meta-phonological speculations / Sean Jensen Metatheoretical problems in phonology with Occam's Razor and non-ad-hoc-ness / Stefan Ploch Eerati tone : towards a tonal dialectology of Emakhuwa / Farida Cassimjee and Charles W. Kisseberth Government phonology and the vowel harmonies of Natal Portuguese and Yoruba / Margaret Cobb Palatalisation in Brazilian Portuguese / Thaos Cristsfaro-Silva Two notes on laryngeal licensing / Michael Kenstowicz, Mahasen Abu-Mansour and Miklss Tvrkenczy On spirantisation and affricates / Tobias Scheer Branching onsets in Polish / Eugeniusz Cyran - Are there branching onsets in Modern Icelandic? / Edmund Gussmann Remarks on mutf cum liquida and branching onsets / Jean Lowenstamm Defective syllables : the other story of Italian sC(C)-sequences / Emmanuel Nikihma Remarks on prenominal liaison consonants in French / Yves Charles Morin The phonotactics of a "Prince" language : a case study / Glyne L Piggott On the syllabification of right-edge consonants : evidence from Ahtna (Athapaskan) / Keren Rice Licensing constraint to let / Yuko Yoshida Empty and pseudo-empty categories / Monik Charette Unlicensed domain-final empty nuclei in Korean / Yong Heo Unreleasing : the case of neutralisation in Korean / Seon-Jung Kim /r/ syllabicity : Polish versus Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian / Grazyna Rowicka The syllabic nasal in Japanese / Shohei Yoshida Template and morphology in Khalkha Mongolian and beyond? / Ann Denwood - A non-derivational analysis of the so-called "diminutive retroflex suffixation" / Yeng-Seng Goh Why Arabic guttural assimilation is not a phonological process / M. Masten Guerssel On a certain notion of "occurrence" : the source of metrical structure, and of much more / Jean-Roger Vergnaud. The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert It is common that the editor of a Festschrift provide some background on the person to be honoured.