This book intends to place Nick Clements’ contribution to Feature Theory in a historical and contemporary context and to introduce some of his unpublished manuscripts as well as new work with colleagues collected in this book.

The Tasrîf in the medieval Arabic grammatical tradition

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Georges Bohas et al. (24 mars 2022)

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Between the 8th and the 14th centuries, a paradigm of grammatical research of remarkable sophistication, scope, and depth arose in the Arab world. This chapter is devoted to a presentation of some of the results of the Arab grammarians in the areas of morphology and phonology. Emphasis is laid on th...

Vowel harmony in Sino-Tibetan languages

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Katia Chirkova (2021)

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This chapter provides an overview of vowel harmony systems, as reported for some languages of the Sino-Tibetan language family (also known as Tibeto-Burman or Trans-Himalayan). Chapter 58 in the Vowel Harmony Handbook, edited by Harry van der Hulst and Nancy Ritter.

Generative phonology: interaction between phonology and morpho-syntax

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Tobias Scheer (2021)

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Anderson’s case grammar and the history of localism

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Jean-Michel Fortis (2018)

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This chapter pursues two main goals. The first is to contextualize the emergence of Anderson’s localist conception of case as well as the evolution of this conception after the formative years. The second goal is to retrace the development of localist ideas in the history of linguistics, focussing o...

Transparent Vowels

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Hamida Demirdache (1988)

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