Morpho-Phonological Analysis of Persian Simple Verbs within the Optimality Theoretic Framework

; Ahmad Reza Lotfi; ; Hossein Heidari Tabrizi

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" Morpho-Phonological Analysis of Persian Simple Verbs within the Optimality Theoretic Framework "

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	155371
Doc. No	:	4717p
Call number	:	‭4717‬
Main Entry	:	Mottaghy, Jaleh
Title Proper	:	Morpho-Phonological Analysis of Persian Simple Verbs within the Optimality Theoretic Framework
Supervisor	:	; Ahmad Reza Lotfi
Advisor	:	; Hossein Heidari Tabrizi
College	:	Khorasgan
Date	:	, 2013=1391
Degree	:	M.A
field of study	:	, General linguistics
College	:	, Khorasgan
student score	:	, 1391/10/24, 1390/00/00
Page No	:	xii,112p.
Note	:	842
Abstract	:	This thesis investigates the morpho-phonological dimensions of Persian simple verbs within the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993; McCarthy and Prince, 1993). The first issue under investigation concerns the strategies employed by Persian to resolve the problem of *HIATUS in the present simple stems (i.e. the verbs ending in vowels and belonging to Type I) under the notion of Generalized Alignment constraints which are interacting with familiar Faithfulness and Markedness constraints. Another central concern of this thesis is the alternations of the past morpheme in light of applying output-oriented theory as a new version of Optimality Theory. I argue that V-deletion as a more economic way is preferred to C-epenthesis to avoid hiatus, thus ONSET, DEP-IO >> MAX-IO are thought of as the preliminary ranking in which ONSET as a markedness constraint will also be satisfied. As a result of coincidence between the syllable edges (i.e. Pros Cat) and the stem edges (i.e. Gram Cat) in the structural patterns of such verbs, ALIGN-L and ALIGN-R constraints take part in the ranking argument; therefore, ONSET, DEP-IO>> MAX-IO>> ALIGN-L, and ONSET, DEP-IO>> MAX-IO>> ALIGN-R are proposed here to describe the morpho-phonological behavior of such verbs. Regarding FIAT constraints proposed by MacBride (2004), the input for stems Type II (i.e. past simple stems) is argued to consist of an imperative root bearing the syntactic features corresponding to past which is encoded in PAST:]stemi as a FIAT-STRUC constraint. I conclude that the allomorphs for making stems Type II are the reflexes of nine distinct FIAT-STRUC constraints triggered by the same syntactic property. Allomorphy is arisen through the action of multiple FIAT-STRUC constraints. Such constraints together with the effect of OO-correspondence constraints and the Faithfulness constraints account for phonologically conditioned allomorph selection..
electronic file name	:	47171.pdf
Title and statement of responsibility and	:	Morpho-Phonological Analysis of Persian Simple Verbs within the Optimality Theoretic Framework [Thesis]; Ahmad Reza Lotfi; Hossein Heidari Tabrizi
Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note	:	Bibliography :P.106-109