Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2141
Title: Word Structure in Ngalakgan
Contributor(s): Baker, Brett  (author)
Publication Date: 2008
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2141
Abstract: Ngalakgan is a non-configurational, polysynthetic, and agglutinative language of the Gunwinyguan family. The morphological structures of Ngalakgan require a two-level analysis: root-level and word-level. Only the word-level shows regular phonologically conditioned alternations. The root-level is entirely frozen. Baker demonstrates that Optimality Theory must take account of differences in the productivity of morphological relations in the input, in order to maintain the simplest analysis. Ngalakgan has a quantity-sensitive stress system which is hitherto undescribed and which contradicts the predictions of current Moraic Theory. Syllables closed by codas which share place with a following onset do not count as heavy even though heterorganic codas do. The same system is found in neighbouring languages. This and other patterns suggest that syllabification in these languages is gesture-, rather than timing-, based.
Publication Type: Book
Publisher: Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Information
Place of Publication: Stanford, United States of America
ISBN: 9781575865621
1575865629
Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
HERDC Category Description: A1 Authored Book - Scholarly
Publisher/associated links: http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an42817044
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xPbfJQAACAAJ
Extent of Pages: 332
Appears in Collections:Book

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