Dr. Maxime Papillon, Post-doctorate researcher in Linguistics

Title: Representation and the range of possible (morpho)phonology 

Abstract: Raimy (2000) proposed to handle reduplication as loops in the phonological representation where precedence is relaxed to allow arbitrary multiprecedence. I extend this proposal to show that with the notion of precedence defined by Raimy, a multitude of phenomena can be captured by exploiting the new geometrical configurations between feature bundles allows, suggesting a unified theory of possible (morpho)phonology limited solely by the representation. I will discuss the way PROP handles vowel harmony, allomorphy, and their interactions with reduplication.

This talk is part of the 2021-2022 Linguistics Colloquium Series.