Joshua M. Griffiths
List of John Benjamins publications in which Joshua M. Griffiths is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 8. On the status of epenthetic schwa in French Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Amengual, Mark and Amanda Dalola (eds.), pp. 186–210 | Chapter
The French schwa is notable for its highly complex variable alternations with zero resulting from both epenthesis and deletion processes. Curiously, an asymmetry in the word-final environment is observed as it is the most productive site for both deletion and epenthesis. This chapter explores… read more
2019 On the rapid expansion of optimality theory at the end of the twentieth century Historiographia Linguistica 46:1/2, pp. 133–162 | Article
Despite being a recent development in generative linguistics, Optimality Theory (OT, Prince & Smolensky 1993) has had a profound impact on linguistics, particularly on phonology in North America. OT posits that observed forms of language arise due to conflicting linguistic constraints. When… read more