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  • Referential density in discourse and syntactic typology

  • Balthasar Bickel
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 79 / Issue 4 / December 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 708-736

  • Narrative production experiments reveal systematic crosslinguistic differences in the preferred ratio of overt to possible argument NPs (called here the referential density value) between three pro-drop languages of the Himalayas (Belhare, Maithili, Nepali). These differences can be accounted for by the degree to which morphosyntactic features of NPs, especially case features, are relevant for syntactic processing. This degree is the higher the more there are pivots or controllers of syntactic rules (e.g. verb agreement) that are defined not only on the basis of a thematic role hierarchy but also by a case feature (as when, for example, verb agreement is blocked by quirky case on the thematically highest argument).

  • Allomorphy in Optimality Theory: Polish Iotation

  • Jerzy Rubach, Geert E. Booij
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 77 / Issue 1 / March 2001
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 26-60

  • This article discusses IOTATION, a process that has been analyzed in generative phonology as a palatalization rule. We argue that optimality theory predicts the treatment of this process in terms of allomorphy, which in fact is desirable for a synchronic analysis. The consequence is that, with regard to iotation effects, the task of phonology is to account for the distribution of allomorphs rather than to derive them from a single underlying representation. While, as a result of diachronic changes, the allomorphs are arbitrary, their distribution is not. It follows from the interaction of universal phonological and morphological constraints, and from the considerations of segment markedness.

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