Fearful Symmetry: Allomorphy, Synchrony, Diachrony

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• Emmon Bach, SOAS and University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Monday 27 April 2009, 18:00-19:00
• Saltmarsh Room, King's College, Cambridge.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Bert Vaux.

The general problem area addressed in my talk is complicated allomorphy, with materials drawn mostly from the Northern Wakashan language Haisla. I will show that classical arguments for abstract analyses are undercut if we put more of the burden of explanation on history, and that we arrive at a better set of predictions about languages in this way. A good bit of the talk will consist of an exposition of the phonology and morphology of Haisla.

This talk is part of the King's Occasional Lectures series.

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