Reality Exploration and Discovery

The twenty-five papers presented here examine the interactions between linguistic structure and sound patterns across a diverse set of languages. The integrating theme of this volume is the influence of K. P. Mohanan's philosophy of inquiry, derived not only from his rich body of work but also from the fresh perspectives and intellectual vitality that he has shared with colleagues and students in a career spanning over three decades.

Linda Ann Uyechi is a lecturer in the Department of Music at Stanford University. Lian-Hee Wee is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Contributors ix
Intellectual Restlessness: Inquiry and Analysis xiii
Lian-Hee Wee And Linda Uyechi

I Realities and Life

1 "He Who Can, Does" - and Teaches, and Teaches Teachers 3
Tony T. N. Hung
2 Educating a Linguist 9
Jean Ann
3 A Prolegomenon to Linguistology 19
Malavika Tara Mohanan

II Exploration of Interaction in Sound Patterns

4 Persistent Substratum Contrasts 25
Bao Zhiming
5 Repetition in Linguistic Change: Tone in Kwa Languages of Cote d'Ivoire 35
William R. Leben And Firmin Ahoua
6 Syllables, Vowel Length and the Spread of Suprasegmentals 47
Mark Donohue
7 Kikuyu ConsonantMutation (Long Peng) 59
8 Vowel Harmony in Kimaragang as a Lexical Rule 75
Paul R. Kroeger
9 Exploring the Dilemma of the Split-L Geminate Pattern in Hong Kong English 89
Lian-Hee Wee
10 Optimality Theory as a Probabilistic Model 105
John C. Paolillo
11 Reduplication in Stratal OT 125
Paul Kiparsky
12 The Emergence of Optimality Theory 143
K.P. Mohanan, D. Archangeli, D. Pulleyblank

III Exploration of Interaction in Structural Patterns

13 The Gradience of the Dative Alternation 161
Joan Bresnan and Tatiana Nikitina
14 A Comparison of the English and Korean Double Object 185
Eunjeong Oh And Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
15 Headless Relative Clauses and WH-Questions in Singapore Malay 201
Norhaida Aman, Peter Cole And Gabriella Hermon
16 Raising in a Unified Theory of Structure-Sharing in LFG 213
Alex Alsina
17 Complex Predication: How Did the Child Pinch the Elephant? 231
Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King, Gillian Ramchand
18 Constraints on Operator Binding in Malayalam 257
Mary Dalrymple
19 Evidence for the Linearization-Based Theory of Long-Distance Scrambling in Japanese 271
Shûichi Yatabe
20 Aspects of the Semantics of Logophoricity: Comparison of Malayalam with Yoruba and Japanese 287
Yo Matsumoto
21 Unpredicated Particles 303
Beth Levin And Peter Sells
22 The Discourse Mode of Mandarin Verbal -le Sentences 325
Shiao Wei Tham
23 Variation and Ambiguity 345
Vivienne Fong And Arto Anttila
24 Now We See It, Now We Don't: Agreement Puzzles in ASL 359
Carol Neidle
25 Prioritizing Constraint Sets in the Grammar of Carnatic Music 375
K.G. Vijayakrishnan

IV Bibliography of K.P. Mohanan's Work (1981-2009)

26 Works by K.P. Mohanan 395
27 Co-Authored Works by K.P.Mohanan 401

Index 405

April 2010

ISBN (Paperback): 9781575865881
ISBN (Cloth): 9781575865898
ISBN (Electronic): 9781575868585

Reality Exploration and Discovery

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