… In this volume, Laura Downing tackles the question of what constrains the sizes and
shapes of those morphemes which are the output of prosodically sensitive processes, such as …

This book fills a gap in studies of negation in discourse by providing an up-to-date critical
review of the state of the art in negation and by proposing a model of negation that brings …

Cross-linguistically, onsetless syllables not only have limited distribution but also exhibit
exceptional prosody: in some languages they are excluded from reduplication, or cannot bear …

This article provides a detailed investigation of the prosody and syntax of dislocation in Durban
Zulu, an Nguni Bantu language spoken in South Africa. With focus elements obligatorily …

& Vogel 1986, Selkirk 1986) only have one morpho-prosodic constitu ent, Prosodi Word (PWord)
at the lexical level, dominating metrical sublexi cal constituents like foot and syllable, as …

A fundamental problem in the analysis of homorganic nasal-obstruent (NC) sequences in
any language is determining whether they are best considered unit segments or clusters. It is …

This paper addresses three central questions in the phonology–syntax interface: What does
phonology know about syntax? Does phrasal phonology “know” about syntax directly or …

… That this restriction is crucial is shown by the reduplication patterns of polysyllabic stems in
Natal Zulu (Downing, field notes). In Natal Zulu, as in Kinande, underived polysyllabic stems …

In Zulu, as in other Bantu languages (see, eg, Heine 1976; Bearth 2003), word order in
neutral ‘out of the blue’contexts is canonically (S) V (IO)(DO), as illustrated in (la—c). Locative …

Reduplication has played a central role in the development of phonological theories for 30
years. The introduction of Classical Optimality Theory (OT) in the 1990s sparked intensive …