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In:Morphology by Serial Optimization
Edited by Gereon Müller
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 289] 2025
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An introduction to inflectional morphology in Harmonic Serialism

Published online: 27 November 2025
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Abstract
This introductory chapter sets out to provide a concise overview of the approach to inflectional morphology based on Harmonic Serialism (a local, derivational version of Optimality Theory) developed in Müller (2020; 2024) and Gleim, Müller, Privizentseva & Tebay (2021; 2023). Furthermore, the eight contributions to the present volume are briefly sketched, and the arguments for adopting an approach based on Harmonic Serialism (rather than one based on Standard Parallel Optimality Theory) that emerge from the analyses collected here are laid out.
Article outline
  • 1.Background
  • 2.Inflectional morphology in Harmonic Serialism
    • 2.1Basic assumptions
    • 2.2Properties of morphological theories
    • 2.3Morpho-syntactic features and morphological arrays
    • 2.4Building words
    • 2.5Faithfulness constraints
    • 2.6Constraints on order
    • 2.7Morphological movement
      • 2.7.1The mechanism
      • 2.7.2Discontinuous exponence
      • 2.7.3Phonological reflexes
      • 2.7.4Non-local stem allomorphy
      • 2.7.5Discontinuous partially superfluous extended exponence
    • 2.8Extended exponence
    • 2.9Disjunctive blocking
    • 2.10Impoverishment
  • 3.The contributions
    • 3.1Chapter 2: Andermann (2025) on Potawatomi
    • 3.2Chapter 3: Bauer (2025) on Itelmen
    • 3.3Chapter 4: Gleim (2025) on Western Keres
    • 3.4Chapter 5: Katochoritis (2025) on Modern Greek
    • 3.5Chapter 6: Kushnir (2025) on Lithuanian
    • 3.6Chapter 7: McCann (2025) on Urarina
    • 3.7Chapter 8: Müller (2025a) on Irarutu
    • 3.8Chapter 9: Privizentseva (2025) on Finno-Ugric
  • 4.Local vs. global optima
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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