Morphophonemic Variability, Productivity, and Change

The Case of Rusyn

Marta Harasowska

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783110157611
• eBook ISBN: 9783110804522
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Grammar & Punctuation
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of tables
• List of figures
• 1 Introduction
• 1. The Rusyn people - their present and past
• 2. The Rusyn language - its past and present
• 2.1. The spoken language
• 2.2. The written language
• 3. An overview of the current study
• 2 Recent approaches to morphophonemics
• 1. The roots of morphophonemics
• 2. The generative approach to morphophonemics
• 3. Alternative approaches to morphophonemics
• 3.1. Some problems with the generativist position
• 3.2. Morphophonology according to Linell
• 3.3. Morphophonemics in Bybee’s model of morphology
• 3 Two models of language and language change
• 1. The sociolinguistic approach to the study of sound change
• 1.1. Empirical foundations
• 1.2. The observability of sound change
• 1.3. Implementation of change through the linguistic structure
• 1.4. Implementation of linguistic change through the social matrix
• 1.5. Explaining linguistic change
• 2. An analogical model of morphology
• 2.1. Rules vs. representations
• 2.2. The organization of paradigms
• 2.3. Local markedness
• 2.4. A dynamic model of the lexicon
• 2.5. Morphophonemic alternations across paradigms
• 2.6. Productivity
• 4 Two morphophonemic alternation patterns in Rusyn
• 1. The “velar palatalization” in Rusyn
• 2. The “velar palatalization” from a broader perspective
• 2.1. The second palatalization in Slavic - diachrony and synchrony
• 2.2. The semantic context in the masculine nominative plural
• 3. The “dental palatalization” in Rusyn
• 4. The “dental palatalization” from a broader perspective
• 5 The Rusyn study: Data collection and analysis
• 1. The organization of the field work
• 1.1. The population sample
• 1.2. The linguistic questionnaire
• 1.3. Collecting the linguistic data
• 2. The analysis of the data
• 2.1. Two approaches to the study of social variation in language
• 2.2. Procedure for the response coincidence analysis
• 6 The “velar palatalization” pattern: A close-up view
• 1. The adult sample
• 1.1. The k-stem real words
• 1.2. The k-stem non-words
• 2. The non-adult sample
• 2.1. The k-stem real and non-words
• 3. Summary
• 7 The “dental palatalization” pattern in the spotlight
• 1. The d-stem words
• 1.1. The adult speakers
• 1.2. The non-adult informants
• 2. The t-stem words
• 2.1. The adult speakers
• 2.2. The non-adult informants
• 3. The z-stem words
• 3.1. The adult speakers
• 3.2. The non-adult informants
• 4. The s-stem words
• 4.1. The adult speakers
• 4.2. The non-adult informants
• 5. The 1-stem words
• 5.1. The adult speakers
• 5.2. The non-adult informants
• 6. The n-stem words
• 6.1. The adult speakers
• 6.2. The non-adult informants
• 7. Discussion of the “dental palatalization” pattern
• 7.1. The adult speakers
• 7.2. The non-adult informants
• 7.3. Comrie’s phonetic distance and the single rule hypothesis
• 7.4. Tiersma’s “local markedness” hypothesis
• 8. Summary
• 8 Conclusion
• 1. Morphophonemic variability, productivity, and change
• 1.1. Variability
• 1.2. Productivity
• 1.3. Change
• 2. Some implications for the theoretical framework
• 2.1. Bybee’s analogy-based model of morphology
• 2.2. Labov’s sociolinguistic approach to the study of language change
• Appendices
• A Distribution of adult subjects within the social structure
• B k-stem masculine nouns
• C Dental-stem masculine nouns
• D The “velar palatalization” pattern: Dendrograms
• E Adult subject groups for the “dental palatalization” pattern
• F Non-adult subject groups for the “dental palatalization” pattern
• Abstract
• Notes
• References
• Name index
• Subject index