NDLI: Description and explanation in morphophonology: the case of Japanese verb inflection

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Author	de Chene, Brent
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The suffixal alternations of Japanese verbal inflection have been analyzed in at least four distinct ways in the literature. In this paper, working in the context of a general model of the inferential relation between synchrony and diachrony in inflectional morphophonology, I compute the predictions for potential change for three analyses of those alternations and show that only one set of predictions is consistent with the ongoing changes evident in a nationwide survey of inflection. I conclude that the analysis generating the correct predictions is the unique descriptively adequate analysis of the system of alternations in question. With regard to the explanatory principles governing the choice of that analysis from the set of observationally adequate alternatives, I show that the Japanese case counterexemplifies a wide range of proposals that have been made about the operation of morphophonological analysis and change and propose that the choice of both base forms and rules is due to a principle of Generalized Type Frequency. Among the general themes of the paper are the grammatical reality of language-specific phonological rules, the relevance of analogical processes to synchronic description and explanation, and the limited role played in morphophonological analysis by global considerations of predictability.
Starting Page	37
Ending Page	80
Page Count	44
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09258558
Journal	Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728560
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-08-29
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Japanese Verb inflection Descriptive adequacy Type frequency Analogy Comparative Linguistics Chinese Theoretical Languages Language and Literature
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language History and Philosophy of Science

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