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Living on the Edge W DE G Studies in Generative Grammar 62 Editors Harry van der Hulst Jan Köster Henk van Riemsdijk Mouton de Gruyter Berlin • New York Living on the Edge 28 Papers in Honour of Jonathan Kaye edited by Stefan Ploch Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York 2003 Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin. The series Studies in Generative Grammar was formerly published by Foris Publications Holland. © Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI to ensure permanence and durability. ISBN 3-11-017619-X Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at <http://dnb.ddb.de>. © Copyright 2003 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin. All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in Germany. Jonathan Kaye (Picture courtesy Bernard Howard) Preface It took almost five years, I wrote about 250 pages in editorial com- ments, at least 20 letters and 400 emails, I typeset about 750 pages and collected 50 pages of terms and names for the index. Along the way, there were several people who helped me and who I would therefore like to mention here. This project was originally conceived in the Postgraduate Com- mon Room of the School of Oriental and African Studies, some time in 1998. The people present were Monik Charette, Margaret Cobb, Sean Jensen, and myself. To all three, I would like to express my gratitude. After a little while, it became clear that the editors of this Fest- schrift would be Monik Charette and myself; Monik was involved in writing the original call for papers and in many dealings with poten- tial publishers. For personal reasons, Monik decided in 1999 to with- draw from her editorial role (while remaining one of the contributors) but continued to be an important source of information about Jona- than Kaye and about people who could be of help to me. For all of these reasons, Monik deserves special mention and an extra portion of gratitude. From 1999 to 2000, Geoff Williams assisted me in proof-reading some of the manuscripts and in composing a number of emails and letters to potential publishers, for which I would like to thank him. In addition to contributing to this Festschrift, Elan Dresher, Ed- mund Gussmann, Michael Kenstowicz, Yves-Charles Morin and Glyne Piggott provided information about Jonathan and useful com- ments about various aspects of typesetting and of orthographical mat- ters. Thank you. Many thanks also to Elan Dresher, Sean Jensen, and Yves-Charles Morin for offering their personal experiences with Jonathan Kaye (cf. "Testimonials"). Even though it was not necessary in the end, I would like to thank Friedrich Neubarth for his offer to write a perl script for the index. vi Preface Another person I wish to mention is Ursula Kleinhenz from Mou- ton de Gruyter, who showed a great deal of patience and care for this project. Then, Harry van der Hulst and Nancy Ritter deserve my gratitude for helping me with the arrangement of the articles; Harry was also very supportive as one of the editors of this series (Studies in Genera- tive Grammar). Of course, I would like to say thank you to all contributors. Last but not least, I want to express my deep gratitude to John Rennison: he showed me the ropes of typesetting and editing, he ex- plained some of the finer details of Word to me, he helped with the preparation of the summaries of each paper and of the index. He gen- erously assisted me in assembling the entire volume. Stefan Ploch Johannesburg, 25 July, 2003 Contents Preface ν Jonathan D. Kaye Curriculum vitae xi Testimonials xiii Publications xxi Instead of an introduction 1 1 General issues 1.1. Acquisition B. Elan Dresher Meno's paradox and the acquisition of grammar 7 Nancy A. Ritter On the logical order of development in acquiring prosodic structure 29 1.2. Computation Geoff Williams On the computability of certain derivations in Government Phonology 55 1.3. The organisation of grammar Harry van der Hulst Structure paradoxes in phonology 75 John R. Rennison and Friedrich Neubarth An x-bar theory of Government Phonology 95 1.4. Philosophy of science and metatheory Sean Jensen Meta-phonological speculations 131
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