Linguistic Preferences

336 Pages·2021·1.773 MB·English

by  Noel Aziz Hanna, Patrizia, Smith, Laura Catharine

Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna, Laura Catharine Smith (Eds.)
Linguistic Preferences
Trends in Linguistics
Studies and Monographs
Editors
Chiara Gianollo
Daniël Van Olmen
Editorial Board
Walter Bisang
Tine Breban
Volker Gast
Hans Henrich Hock
Karen Lahousse
Natalia Levshina
Caterina Mauri
Heiko Narrog
Salvador Pons
Niina Ning Zhang
Amir Zeldes
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Chiara Gianollo
Volume 358
Linguistic
Preferences
Edited by
Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna and Laura Catharine Smith
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Essays in honour of Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld
Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld

Preface
We are very pleased to dedicate this volume to Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld
on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Linguistic preferences celebrates both Theo
Vennemann the scholar and his scientific oeuvre. With contributions from lin-
guists around the globe, this volume has arisen as a result of the high regard
Theo Vennemann is held in. Indeed, it reflects just a glimpse of the impact Theo
Vennemann has had on the field as a researcher, colleague, teacher, and mentor.
We would like to thank all contributors and referees as well as the partici-
pants of the international colloquium “Current aspects of preference theory: A
symposium on the occasion of Theo Vennemann’s 80th birthday”, held at the
LMU Munich.
We are grateful to Birgit Sievert and Barbara Karlson from De Gruyter Mouton
for their effort to make this volume possible as well as to the series editors Chiara
Gianollo and Daniël Van Olmen. We would like to thank Stephen Laker (Kyushu)
and Dietmar Zaefferer (Munich) for their support and those who assisted us in
proofreading and formatting this volume: Eden Buchert (BYU), Christina Cham-
penois (BYU), Carolin Cholotta (Bamberg), Jonas Inderst (Bamberg), Laura Knoll
(Bamberg), Aaron Ostler (BYU), and Anna Walker (BYU).
Bamberg and Provo in February 2021
Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna and Laura Catharine Smith
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110721461-202

Contents
Preface   VII
Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna und Laura Catharine Smith
Introduction: Preferences   1
Part I: Gradience and preference ranking
Monica Macaulay and Joseph Salmons
Prosodic templates in Algonquian reduplication and initial change   17
Robert Mailhammer
Amurdak intersyllabic phonotactics and morphophonemic alternations as
motivated by the Contact Law   49
Renate Raffelsiefen
Shortening as a window on phonological grammar   71
Laura Catharine Smith
Moving from syllables to feet in the prosodic hierarchy: How foot-based
templates reflect prosodic preferences   109
Part II: Prioritisation and the inferring of preferences from observed choices
Hans Basbøll
Danish stød in the light of morae, the Weight Law and sonority (strength):
A personal view   143
Philip Hoole
Towards phonetic explanations for preferred sound patterns   171
Larry M. Hyman
The first person singular subject negative portmanteau in Luganda
and Lusoga   195
Irmengard Rauch
The laryngeal preference, Saussure, and his politics   209
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Part III: Comparative evaluation and the inherent “predictive” purpose
of preferences
Antoniy Dimitrov
Preference laws and a new interpretation of Modern Bulgarian “liquid
metathesis”   219
Raymond Hickey
Syllable structure and sonority in Modern Irish   247
Donka Minkova
Preference theory and the uneven progress of degemination in
Middle English   265
Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna
The principle of scopal serialisation: Wackernagel position and mirrored
Wackernagel position   293
Tabula Gratulatoria   319
Index   323