On modular approaches to grammar: Evidence from Polish

• Authors: Bartłomiej Czaplicki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Modularity of grammar has been explicitly or tacitly assumed in many generative analyses. Modules are separate computational systems that perform specific tasks and make use of domain-specific information. It is argued that the concept is difficult to maintain in the light of evidence from Polish. I look at palatalization effects before vowels and conclude that phonological regularities must have access to morphosyntactic information. In addition, certain regularities in the selection of diminutive allomorphs suggest that morphology must have access to phonetic information. As domain specificity, the core concept of modular approaches, is compromised, modularity does not seem a likely candidate for a universal property of grammar.

Keywords

EN

modularity; palatalization; diminutive; domain specificity

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 419-439

Dates

received

2014-10-03

revised

2014-10-07

accepted

2014-10-19

online

2014-11-14

Contributors

author

Bartłomiej Czaplicki

• University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/psicl-2014-0022