Paradigms and Opacity: Volume One Volume 140 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781575861975)

Stratal Optimality Theory (SOT) is a comprehensive theory of sound structure and its relation to word structure that integrates the complementary theoretical insights of lexical phonology and classical optimality theory. Paradigms and Opacity explores the many facets of SOT. Volume One focuses on constraint interaction and provides a principled solution to the problem of opacity: how, why, and when do constraints systematically apply where they apparently shouldn't, or fail to apply where they apparently should? Analyzing evidence from a variety of languages--including English, Finnish, Arabic, Yowlumne Yokuts, Kashaya, Maltese, Dutch, Basque, Tigrinya, Spanish, and Catalan--Paul Kiparsky compares SOT with alternative theories, arguing that it is formally cleaner and makes better sense of a range of empirical phenomena.

Author: Paul Kiparsky
ISBN-10: 1575861976
ISBN-13: 9781575861975
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2026
Pages: 600
Format: Hardcover