Publications and Presentations

 

For the most extensive and up-to-date list of my publications, see my CV: [pdf]

 

You can see my presentations here.

 

Publications: order by date | theme | type

 

Book & other lengthy work

de Lacy, Paul (2006). Markedness: Reduction and Preservation in Phonology. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 112. Cambridge University Press.
[abstract] [Google books excerpt] [corrections] [handout] [talk
[Reviews: Nevins & Plaster (2008) Journal of Linguistics 44.3.]

de Lacy, Paul (2002). The formal expression of markedness. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications.  ROA 542.
[abstract] [dissertation]

 

Edited books

de Lacy, Paul (ed.) (2007). The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge University Press.
http://rci.rutgers.edu/~phonolab/handbook/
[Reviews:
Cahill, Mike (2007) SIL Electronic Book Reviews [link]
Zerbian, Sabine (2008) In Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 26.4:547-549;
Scheer, Tobias (2010) In Journal of Linguistics 46.1: 193-218.
Kenstowicz, Michael (2010) In Language 86.1:216-219
Smith, Jennifer (to appear) In Phonology]

de Lacy, Paul (ed.-in-chief) (2004); Marc Richards and Lluïsa Astruc (eds.).   Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 1. University of Cambridge.

Carpenter, Angela, Andries Coetzee and Paul de Lacy (eds.) (2003). Papers in Optimality Theory II. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers (UMOP) 26. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications.

de Lacy, Paul and Anita Nowak (eds.) (2000). Papers from the 25th Anniversary. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers (UMOP) 24. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications.

 

Journal Articles

Kingston, John and Paul de Lacy (to appear). Synchronic Explanation. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

de Lacy, Paul (2007).  Quality of data in metrical stress theory.  Cambridge Extra magazine.
[article]

de Lacy, Paul (2007).  How to say “Clinton”.  Cambridge Extra magazine.

        [article] [audio – mp3]

de Lacy, Paul (2006). Transmissibility and the role of the phonological component. Theoretical Linguistics 32.2: 185-196.

        [abstract] [article] ([target commentary article] [author's reply] [sources]

de Lacy, Paul (2004). Markedness conflation in Optimality Theory. Phonology 21.2:145-199.
[abstract] [article]

de Lacy, Paul (2002). The interaction of tone and stress in Optimality Theory.  Phonology 19.1: 1-32.
[abstract] [article]

de Lacy, Paul (1998). A cooccurence restriction in Maori. Te Reo (Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand) 40: 10-44.

        [article]

de Lacy, Paul (1998). Thematic and structural affinities: The Wanderer and Ecclesiastes.Neophilologus 82.1: 125-137.

        [abstract] [article]

de Lacy, Paul (1996). Christianisation and social adaptation: The Old English Judith.Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (Bulletin of the Modern Language Society) 97.4: 393-410.
[abstract] [article]

 

Chapters in books

de Lacy, Paul (to appear). The feature [stress]. ms. Rutgers University.
[pdf - draft]

de Lacy, Paul (2017).  Circumscriptive haplologizing reduplicants.  In Heidi Quinn, Diane Massam, and Lisa Matthewson (eds). Linguistic Travels in Time and Space: Festschrift for Liz Pearce.  Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics (WWPL) 23: 41-52.
[pdf of the article], [Entire Working Papers Volume]

de Lacy, Paul (2015). Phonology. In Mark Aronoff (ed). The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.

de Lacy, Paul (to appear). Phonology. Oxford Bibliographies Online: http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/
! I was not able to include acknowledgements in the article. So, I would like to thank the following people for their feedback here: Ricardo Bermudez-Otero, Abby Cohn, Elan Dresher, Matt Gordon, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Tobias Scheer, and Hubert Truckenbrodt.
Draft reference list: [DOCX] [PDF]

de Lacy, Paul (2012). Morpho-phonological polarity. In Jochen Trommer (ed.)The morphology and phonology of exponence. Oxford University Press.
[pdf (version: 28 Jan 2010)] [data (Excel)] [polarity webpage] [Corrections]

de Lacy, Paul (to appear in November 2010). Markedness and faithfulness constraints. In Marc van Oostendorp (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Wiley- Blackwell.
[draft]

de Lacy, Paul (2009). Phonological evidence. In Steve Parker (ed.). Phonological argumentation: Essays on evidence and motivation. Equinox Publications, ch.2.
[abstract] [chapter] [handout]

de Lacy, Paul and Patrik Bye (2008). Metrical influences on lenition and fortition. In Joaquim de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, and Philippe Ségéral (eds.) Lenition and Fortition. Studies in Generative Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 173-206.
[abstract] [chapter]

de Lacy, Paul (2007). Freedom, Interpretability, and the Loop. In Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye, and Martin Krämer (eds.). Freedom of Analysis? Studies in Generative Grammar (SSG) 95.  Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 86-118.
[abstract] [talk] (chapter removed from this website per Mouton’s request).

de Lacy, Paul (2007). The interaction of tone, sonority, and prosodic structure. In Paul de Lacy (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch.12 (pp. 281-307).

de Lacy, Paul (2007). Themes in phonology. In Paul de Lacy (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch.1 (pp. 5-29).

de Lacy, Paul (2004). Conflation and hierarchies. In Lluïsa Astruc-Aguilera & Marc Richards (eds.)Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 1. Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge Linguistics Department, pp.83-100.
[abstract] [chapter]

de Lacy, Paul (2004). Maximal Words and the Māori passive. In John McCarthy (ed.) Optimality Theory in phonology: A reader. Blackwell, pp. 495-512.
[chapter]

de Lacy, Paul (2003).  Constraint universality and prosodic phrasing in Māori. In Angela Carpenter, Andries Coetzee, and Paul de Lacy (eds.) Papers in Optimality Theory II. UMOP 26. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications, pp.59-79. ROA 561.
[abstract] [chapter]

de Lacy, Paul (1999).  Haplology and correspondence, in Paul de Lacy and Anita Nowak (eds.)Papers from the 25th Anniversary. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers (UMOP) 24. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications, pp.51-88.  ROA 298.
[abstract] [chapter]

 

Chapters in Conference Proceedings

de Lacy, Paul (2003). Maximal words and the Māori passive.  In Andrea Rakowski and Norvin Richards (ed.) Proceedings of AFLA VIII: The eighth meeting of the Austronesian formal linguistics association. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 44. Cambridge, MA: MIT Linguistics Dept, pp.20-39.
[abstract] [chapter] [handout] [talk]

de Lacy, Paul (2001).  Markedness in prominent positions. In Ora Matushansky, Albert Costa, Javier Martin-Gonzalez, Lance Nathan, and Adam Szczegielniak (eds.) HUMIT 2000, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 40. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL, pp.53-66. ROA 432.
[abstract] [chapter] [ROA (longer) version] [handout] [talk]

de Lacy, Paul and Patrik Bye (2000). Edge asymmetries in Phonology and Morphology, In Ji-Yung Kim and Masako Hirotani (eds.) Proceedings of NELS (North-eastern Linguistics Society conference) 30. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications, pp.121-135.
[chapter]

de Lacy, Paul (1999). Circumscriptive morphemes. In Catherine Kitto and Carolyn Smallwood (eds.) Proceedings of AFLA (Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association) VI. Toronto: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, pp.107-120. 
ROA 339; http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~twpl/volume16.htm ].
[abstract] [chapter] [poster]

Kitto, Catherine and Paul de Lacy (1999). Correspondence theory and epenthetic quality. In Catherine Kitto and Carolyn Smallwood (eds.) Proceedings of AFLA (Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association) VI. Toronto: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, pp.181-200. ROA 337; http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~twpl/volume16.htm.
[abstract] [chapter] [longer version] [handout]

de Lacy, Paul (1999). A correspondence theory of morpheme order. In Peter Norquest, Jason D. Haugen, and Sonya Bird (eds.) WCCFL (West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics) XVIII. Arizona: Coyote Working Papers in Linguistics, pp.27-45.  ROA 338.
[abstract] [chapter] [poster]

 

Reviews

de Lacy, Paul (2009). Review of Mark Hale and Charles Reiss, The Phonological Enterprise. Oxford University Press. Journal of Linguistics 45: 719-724.

de Lacy, Paul (2006). Review of J. Lynch (ed.) Issues in Austronesian Historical Phonology.Journal of the Polynesian Society 115.1: 100-102.
[review]

de Lacy, Paul (2003). Review of J.Bradshaw and K.Rehg (eds.) Issues in Austronesian MorphologyJournal of the Polynesian Society 12.2: 172-174.
[review]

 

Papers in online archives and/or not published elsewhere

de Lacy, Paul (2007).  Quality of data in metrical stress theory.  Cambridge Extra magazine.
[article]

de Lacy, Paul (2007).  How to say “Clinton”.  Cambridge Extra magazine.

        [article] [audio – mp3]

de Lacy, Paul and John Kingston (2006). Synchronic explanation. ms. Rutgers University and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. (32 pages).
[abstract] [article]

de Lacy, Paul (2001). Predicate nominals in Maori, Minimalist Syntax Archive #179.
[article]

de Lacy, Paul (1999). Tone and prominence, ROA 333.
[abstract] [article]

de Lacy, Paul (1998). Sympathetic stress, ROA 294.
[abstract] [article]

de Lacy, Paul (1998). The effect of consonant clusters on vowel duration in American English, ms. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
[abstract] [article]

de Lacy, Paul (1997). Prosodic categorization, MA Thesis, University of Auckland. ROA 236.
[abstract] [thesis]

de Lacy, Paul (1996). Circumscription revisited: an analysis of Maori reduplication, ROA 133.
[abstract] [article]