A01=Brett Baker
Author_Brett Baker
Category=CFK
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Product details
- ISBN 9781575865621
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ngalakgan is a non-configurational, polysynthetic, and agglutinative language of the Gunwinyguan family. "Word Structure in Ngalakgan" is the first major theoretical work on the phonology and morphology of this intriguing Australian language in twenty years.Baker demonstrates that Optimality Theory must take account of differences in the productivity of morphological relations in the input, in order to maintain the simplest analysis. This volume examines the syllabification of the language, among other aspects, arguing that Ngalakgan has a quantity-sensitive stress system that is hitherto undescribed and that contradicts the predictions of current Moraic Theory.
Brett Baker is a lecturer in linguistics at the University of New England in Australia.
