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Lingua, 2007
In Modern Greek nominals, the accent is sometimes faithful to the properties of stems, and someti... more In Modern Greek nominals, the accent is sometimes faithful to the properties of stems, and sometimes to those of affixes. Several facts challenge solutions based on stipulating the ranking of faithfulness constraints in OT, however. These include the fact that accentual dominance of affixes correlates with their semantic markedness (marked Case; marked number); the fact that neighboring cells within a paradigm tend to be accentually uniform; and the fact that control of accent shifts from affix to stem when stems are followed by Class Markers. These facts are argued to motivate an approach in which faithfulness effects and their relative magnitudes are not primitive notions, but are rather derived in certain specific ways that take account of both the internal structure of representations and their overall distance in space.
Language Acquisition, 2004
This article focuses on a familiar kind of conversational implicature known as scalar implicature... more This article focuses on a familiar kind of conversational implicature known as scalar implicature (SI): (1) A: Do you like California wines? B: I like some of them. Implicature: B doesn't like all California wines. Even though some is semantically compatible with all, it is used in (1) to communicate "some but not all." According to the traditional Gricean account of such examples, given that B could have used a more informative term (all) and as it would have been relevant to use all if it were true, A is entitled to infer that B is not, in fact, in a position to offer a statement containing all-most probably because such a statement is not true. Similar interpretations arise with logical connectives ("A or B" ® not A and B), modals ("possibly x" ® not certainly x), and a variety of other terms that can be seen to fall on an informational scale (
An interesting metrical phenomenon that we address in this paper is that although dominant inflec... more An interesting metrical phenomenon that we address in this paper is that although dominant inflectional suffixes do exist in MG-for example the Genitive Plural (GP) of the noun stratiotis sold ier: stratioton (1.1a)- yet, under certain circumstances, when the stem is augmented by a class marker (CM): stem+, they can behave recessively as in the case of manavis grocer illustrated in (1.1b) below: (1.1)
Lingua, 2007
In Modern Greek nominals, the accent is sometimes faithful to the properties of stems, and someti... more In Modern Greek nominals, the accent is sometimes faithful to the properties of stems, and sometimes to those of affixes. Several facts challenge solutions based on stipulating the ranking of faithfulness constraints in OT, however. These include the fact that accentual dominance of affixes correlates with their semantic markedness (marked Case; marked number); the fact that neighboring cells within a paradigm tend to be accentually uniform; and the fact that control of accent shifts from affix to stem when stems are followed by Class Markers. These facts are argued to motivate an approach in which faithfulness effects and their relative magnitudes are not primitive notions, but are rather derived in certain specific ways that take account of both the internal structure of representations and their overall distance in space.
Language Acquisition, 2004
This article focuses on a familiar kind of conversational implicature known as scalar implicature... more This article focuses on a familiar kind of conversational implicature known as scalar implicature (SI): (1) A: Do you like California wines? B: I like some of them. Implicature: B doesn't like all California wines. Even though some is semantically compatible with all, it is used in (1) to communicate "some but not all." According to the traditional Gricean account of such examples, given that B could have used a more informative term (all) and as it would have been relevant to use all if it were true, A is entitled to infer that B is not, in fact, in a position to offer a statement containing all-most probably because such a statement is not true. Similar interpretations arise with logical connectives ("A or B" ® not A and B), modals ("possibly x" ® not certainly x), and a variety of other terms that can be seen to fall on an informational scale (
An interesting metrical phenomenon that we address in this paper is that although dominant inflec... more An interesting metrical phenomenon that we address in this paper is that although dominant inflectional suffixes do exist in MG-for example the Genitive Plural (GP) of the noun stratiotis sold ier: stratioton (1.1a)- yet, under certain circumstances, when the stem is augmented by a class marker (CM): stem+, they can behave recessively as in the case of manavis grocer illustrated in (1.1b) below: (1.1)