Schedule 75. StuTS

This workshop is meant for non-theoretical and theoretical linguists who are interested in paradoxical data and or linguistic puzzles. The framework that aims to resolve such problems presented in this workshop is Stratal Optimality Theory which distributes rules over multiple levels.

Some morphophonological data require seemingly paradoxical rules proposing contradictory grammars for one language. Bermudez-Otero (1999) and Kiparsky (2000) therefore came up with the framework “Stratal Optimality Theory” which assigns different phonologies and morphologies to different levels. The input of these levels undergoes constraints of parallel Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 2004) and its output then serves as the input for the next level with different constraint rankings until the final spell-out is generated.
This workshop introduces one possible solution for anyone who encounters opaque data, structural sensitivity or has always wanted more than just one dimension of Optimality Theory. For the background we will start with the basics of parallel Optimality Theory and then look at the mechanism as well as some example analyses of Stratal OT. As exercises you will be given data puzzles to solve and to apply the idea of stratal ordering. In the end we will discuss the theory’s advantages, problems and maybe gaps to be explored in further research.

Info

Day: 2024-05-11
Start time: 11:30
Duration: 01:00
Room: Turtle (33.2.106)
Track: Theoretical Linguistics
Language: en

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