The Phonology of Polish by Edmund Gussmann
This book is the most complete phonology of contemporary Polish ever published. It is topic-oriented and presents the fundamental characteristics and problems associated with each topic, among them syllable structure, vowel-zero alternations, palatalizations, and other vowel and consonant changes. Professor Gussmann re-examines assumptions about phonological contrasts and alternations, and raises and addresses central questions in morphophonology. He takes morphophonology to be systematically separate from phonology. Palatalizations, he shows, are crucial to Polish, as both phonological and morphophonological phenomena: their detailed description leads him to a systematic presentation of vocalic alternations. The book develops a Government Phonology account of Polish, but is primarily a description of the language with the model subordinated to the organization of data. All the many examples used to illustrate the presentation are transcribed in standard IPA, and translated. This important book will interest all scholars and advanced students of Polish and Slavic phonology.
intelligent, interesting, and thought-provokingThis is in-disputably a book of great importance and impeccable scholarship. * Mark J. Elson, Slavic and East European Journal *
Theoretical incisiveness and data coverage unquestionably make The Phonology of Polish unrivalled among exisitng publications in the area. All significant issues raised earlier in the literature are discussed in it and supplied with novel interpretations, including structure of the syllable, palatalizations, qualitative alternations of vowels, vowel-zero alternations, nasality and voicing. * Bulletin of the Polish Linguistic Society *
...examples are well presented and easily accessible to the reader, and are an invaluable source of data for future research on Polish. ..this book makes an important contribution to the study of Polish. * Ania Lubowicz, Phonology *
[Gussmann] has provided a detailed overview of the way that morphology and phonology interact in Polish ...he opens the way to a potentially interesting convergence of diverse strands of research into Polish morphophonology from the past forty years or more. * Andrew Spencer, Word Structure *
Theoretical incisiveness and data coverage unquestionably make The Phonology of Polish unrivalled among exisitng publications in the area. All significant issues raised earlier in the literature are discussed in it and supplied with novel interpretations, including structure of the syllable, palatalizations, qualitative alternations of vowels, vowel-zero alternations, nasality and voicing. * Bulletin of the Polish Linguistic Society *
...examples are well presented and easily accessible to the reader, and are an invaluable source of data for future research on Polish. ..this book makes an important contribution to the study of Polish. * Ania Lubowicz, Phonology *
[Gussmann] has provided a detailed overview of the way that morphology and phonology interact in Polish ...he opens the way to a potentially interesting convergence of diverse strands of research into Polish morphophonology from the past forty years or more. * Andrew Spencer, Word Structure *
Edmund Gussmann is Professor and Chair of Icelandic in the School of Scandinavian Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. He was formerly head of the Department of Celtic, at the Catholic University of Lublin and visiting professor at University College Dublin, UCLA, and University of London. He has worked in phonological theory and the phonology of Polish, English, Icelandic and Irish. His books include Introduction to Phonological Analysis (1980), Studies in Abstract Phonology (1980), Phono-Morphology (1985), Rules and the Lexicon (1987), Licensing in Syntax and Phonology (1995), A Reverse Dictionary of Modern Irish, with A. Doyle, (1996), and Phonology. Analysis and Theory (2002).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199267477 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199267472 |
| Title | The Phonology of Polish |
| Author | Edmund Gussmann |
| Series | The Phonology Of The World's Languages |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2007-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 382 |
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