description & set texts
Government phonology is a set of theories of phonological representation that influences current thinking considerably. Its original aim was to unify the notions of syntax and phonology, to show that these are but two manifestations of the same thing, the human linguistic capacity. This course surveys the major achievements of the theory from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Course's home page:
http://seas3.elte.hu/szigetva/courses/gp.
Set texts:
- Jonathan Kaye and Jean Lowenstamm. 1981. Syllable structure and markedness theory. In: Adriana Belletti, Luciana Brandi & Luigi Rizzi (eds.) Theory of markedness in Generative Grammar. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore. 287–315.
- Jonathan Kaye, Jean Lowenstamm and Jean-Roger Vergnaud. 1990. Constitutent structure and government in phonology. Phonology 7.2:193–231.
- Monik Charette. 1992. Mongolian and Polish meet government licensing. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 2:275–292.
- John Harris and Geoff Lindsey. 1995. The elements of phonological representation. In: Durand & Katamba 1995:34–79.
- Jonathan Kaye. 1995. Derivations and interfaces. In: Durand & Katamba 1995:289–332.
- John Harris. 1997. Licensing Inheritance: an integrated theory of neutralisation. Phonology 14:315–370.
(Jacques Durand and Francis Katamba. 1995. Frontiers of phonology. Harlow: Longman.)