Hierarchical restructuring in the creation of verbal morphology in Bengali and Germanic: Evidence from phonology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Introduction 1
3. Analogy as optimization: ‘exceptions’ to Sievers’ Law in Gothic 15
4. Analogical levelling of vowel length in West Germanic 47
5. Hierarchical restructuring in the creation of verbal morphology in Bengali and Germanic: Evidence from phonology 71
6. Constraints on schwa apocope in Middle High German 125
7. Morphological re-activation and phonological alternations: Evidence for voiceless restructuring in German 171
8. Inflectional system and markedness 193
9. On the origin and development of the Central Franconian tone contrast 215
10. The origin of Danish stød 261
11. Prosodic variation in ‘Lutgart’ 301
12. The revenge of the uneven trochee: Latin main stress, metrical constituency, stress-related phenomena and OT 333
13. On the (non-)existence of High Vowel Deletion 353
14. Index of subjects 377
15. Index of names 382
16. Index of languages 384