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- Title
Microvariations in harmony and value-relativized parametrization.
- Authors
Nevins, Andrew Ira
- Abstract
This paper explores a parametric delimitation of the space of possible harmony patterns with respect to the class of feature-values that are visible. Extending the framework of Calabrese (1995), the proposal is that alternating morphemes that are searching for a harmonic value may have access toall-values, only asingle-value, or thecontrastivevalues of the harmonic feature. Two cases of microvariation are explored: [ATR] vowel harmony in Standard Yoruba vs. Ife Yoruba, which reduces to the setting of the relativization-value toallvs.contrastive, and vowel-consonant interactions mediated by [high] harmony in Sanjiazi Manchu vs. Sibe, which reduces to the parametric setting ofcontrastivevs.single-value.
- Subjects
VARIATION in language; VOWEL harmony; MORPHOLOGY (Grammar); HARMONY in music; MORPHEMICS; YORUBA (African people); SIBO (Chinese people); MANCHUS; LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2005, Vol 5, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
1568-1483
- Publication type
Article