McCarthy, John
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Distinguished University Professor and Provost Emeritus
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McCarthy
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John
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Near Eastern Languages and Societies
Phonetics and Phonology
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Near Eastern Languages and Societies
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My recent work has focused on Harmonic Serialism, a derivational version of Optimality Theory that appears to have several significant advantages over the parallel version.
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Publication Optimal paradigms(2005-01-01) McCarthy, John JTransderivational Correspondence and Uniform Exponence are two recent theories of surface resemblances among morphologically related words. This article describes the Optimal Paradigms theory, which incorporates elements of both. In OP, candidates consist of entire inflectional paradigms. Within each candidate paradigm, there is a correspondence relation from every paradigm member to every other paradigm member. Faithfulness constraints on this intraparadigmatic correspondence relation resist alternation within the paradigm. This model is illustrated and supported with a type of evidence that has not figured in previous discussions, the templatic structure of the Classical Arabic verb. Generalized Template Theory demands that templatic restrictions emerge from independently motivated constraints. The OP model supplies this kind of explanation for the permitted shapes of Arabic verbal templates.Publication Less than zero: Correspondence and the null output(2007-01-01) McCarthy, John J; Wolf, MatthewIn this chapter, we have argued for a revision of correspondence theory in which strings rather than segments are the formal objects that stand in correspondence. In this revision, well-behaved unfaithful mappings do not alter ℜ’s status is a total bijective function. Candidates with a less orderly ℜ violate MPARSE; among these candidates there is one that harmonically bounds all of the others, the null output &#;. The primary goal of this project is to explain why &#; uniquely violates no constraints except MPARSE, making it suitable for the analysis of phonologically-conditioned gaps. Along the way, we have also discussed the general properties of MPARSE, the locality of coalescence and breaking, and alternative theories of gaps.Publication Prosodic morphology and templatic morphology(1990) McCarthy, John J; Prince, AlanAn analysis of Arabic verb and noun templates.Publication Two lectures on prosodic morphology(1994) McCarthy, John J; Prince, AlanPublication Phonological processes: Assimilation(2003-01-01) McCarthy, John J; Smith, NorvalPublication Publication Distinctive features(1999) McCarthy, John JPublication Review of Janet C. E. Watson (2002) The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic(2004-01-01) McCarthy, John JPublication A prosodic theory of nonconcatenative morphology(1981) McCarthy, John JA CV skeleton analysis of Arabic root-and-pattern morphology.Publication Prosodic circumscription in Choctaw morphology(1991) McCarthy, John J; Lombardi, Linda