Minimal Indirect Reference: A Theory of the Syntax-Phonology Interface Book

	Preface
	List of Abbreviations
1	Introduction	3
1.1	The problem	3
1.2	Two accounts of the interface	5
1.3	The expressiveness of the phonological parser	9
1.4	Domain Paradoxes	12
1.5	A new proposal for the interface: Minimal Indirect Reference (MIR)	14
1.6	Outline for the book	15
1.7	Summary of proposals made in the book	16
2	Domain Paradoxes	19
2.1	Introduction	19
2.2	The structure of the argument	20
2.3	Domain Paradoxes and violations of domain clustering	21
2.4	Domain clustering violations in Kpa Mende	22
2.5	Kimatuumbi: another violation of domain clustering	38
2.6	Layeredness violations in Luganda	46
2.7	Yoruba Domain Paradoxes	51
3	Contrasting various recent Phonological Domain Generators	57
3.1	Four accounts of Chimwi:ni and Chichewa	57
3.2	The inadequacy of a theory which assumes a unique P	71
4	The Minimal Indirect Reference approach	73
4.1	A thumbnail sketch of MIR	74
4.2	Supporting evidence for theta-domains from Kinyambo	78
4.3	Supporting evidence for theta-domains from Konni	79
5	MIR applied to the Bantu data	85
5.1	Two distinct patterns of phonological domains	86
5.2	An important correlation	89
5.3	How phonological domains are constructed	89
5.4	A syntactic account of Bantu	91
5.5	Verb movement and object shift	92
5.6	British English and phonological domains	103
5.7	Summary and further directions	106
6	Revisiting the visibility conditions on rules	107
6.1	What is a functional projection?	107
6.2	Stress in Spanish	118
7	Kaisse (1985) and MIR	121
7.1	The Connected Speech proposal for the interface	121
7.2	Problems with CS and differences between CS and MIR	125
7.3	P2 rules have lexical exceptions, not P1 rules	131
8	Conclusion	133
8.1	Revisiting the mismatch data	133
	Notes	139
	Bibliography	149
	Index	157