Structural Pressures and Paradigmatic Diphthongization in East Romance

Segmental Environments of Spanish Diphthongization

Spanish diphthongization is a well-known example of an exceptionful phonological alternation. Although many forms do exhibit an alternation (e.g. [sentámos] ~ [sjénto] ‘we/I sit’, [kontámos] ~ [kwénto] ‘we/I count’), many others do not (e.g. [rentámos] ~ [rénto] ‘we/I rent’, [montámos] ~ [mónto] ‘we/I mount’). Previous accounts of the alternation have largely accepted this unpredictability at f...

Structural and lexical factors in adjective placement in complex noun phrases across Romance languages

One of the most common features across all known languages is their variability in word order. We show that differences in the prenominal and postnominal placement of adjectives in the noun phrase across five main Romance languages is not only subject to heaviness effects, as previously reported, but also to subtler structural interactions among dependencies that are better explained as effects...

Analysis of Romance in Beighami\'s Darabnameh

For centuries, storytellers and scops recited epics and national, tribal, historical, and religious stories for people, through musical speeches. Some of these narrators wrote down what they recited, and some others dictated them for scribes to be recorded. Some kings and lords also had scops in their courts to recite the stories to scribes. One of the old, oral stories of Persian literature th...

Paradigmatic Chaos in Nuer

East Asian Economic Recovery and Structural Reform

This paper is prepared for presentation at the ABCDE Europe Workshop " Development Thinking at the Millennium, " organized by the World Bank and to be held in Paris, June 26-28, 2000. The author is thankful to Richard Newfarmer for his comments and to David Bisbee for his editorial assistance. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are those of the author and do ...