The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Jean Lowenstamm, the teacher and the man -- 2. Jean Lowenstamm, the linguist -- 3. The form of structure, the structure of forms -- 3.1 Vowels -- 3.2 Syllables -- 3.3 Templates -- 3.4 The Phonology-Syntax interface -- 3.5 Selected issues in Afro-Asiatic syntax and semantics -- References -- Supervised PhD dissertations -- Part 1. Vowels -- Lowering harmony in Bantu -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A synopsis of Radical cv Phonology -- 3. Licensing -- 4. Lowering harmony in Bantu -- 4.1 Kikuyu -- 4.2 The unique case of Kimatuumbi -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- On vowel harmony and vowel reduction -- 1. Background -- 2. Things that might disturb the comparison -- 3. Morphological and phonological structures -- 3.1 Yukuben3 -- 3.2 Mòoré -- 3.3 German -- 4. Vowel assimilation and "harmony" -- 4.1 Yukuben -- 4.2 Mòoré -- 4.3 German I-Umlaut -- 5. Vowel reduction -- 5.1 Yukuben -- 5.2 Mòoré -- 5.3 German -- 6. Similarities and differences -- 6.1 Strengthening of first-syllable vowels -- 6.2 Weakening of the second-syllable vowels -- 7. Discussion -- 7.1 The order of morphemes -- 7.2 Stress -- 7.3 Robustness -- References -- Notes -- Apophony and chiming words in Malay -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Apophony and vowel alternation in Classical Arabic verbs -- 3.2 Apophony and chiming in Malay -- 3.3 Summary -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- Understanding what has happened with the ablaut -- 1. Bopp, Grimm and the first steps of comparative grammar -- 2. Bréal's presentation of Bopp's synthesis -- 3. Saussure's Dissertation and later work? -- 4. Baudouin de Courtenay and the "alternants" -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- Part 2. Syllables -- On the licensing of glides -- 1. Introduction.

2. Background -- 2.1 The constituent structure of Classical Arabic -- 2.2 The status of onsets -- 3. The active voice of Form I -- 4. Glide-initial verb roots and the licensing of glides -- 5. On structure preservation -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- Coda constraints on tone -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The issues -- 3. Stopped tones in Kuki-Chin -- 3.1 Stopped tones in Hakha Lai -- 3.2 Stopped tones in Kuki-Thaadow -- 3.3 Stopped tones in Falam Lai -- 4. Other cases -- 5. Summary -- References -- Notes -- C/V interactions in strict CV -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The specificity of length -- 2.1 Typology -- 2.2 Positional markedness -- 2.3 Integrity -- 2.4 No compensatory lengthening -- 2.5 Templatic behaviour -- 2.6 CV as melodies -- 3. Additional evidence -- 3.1 "Schwa/zero" alternations -- 3.2 Lax checked vowels -- 3.3 Unreleased stops and the so-called "phonetic detail" -- 4. C/V interactions and 'lateral' phonology -- References -- Notes -- What does the Moroccan Malħun meter compute, and how? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of the malħun tradition -- 3. A brief sketch of the MA syllabification system -- 4. The malhun's metical patterns generator -- 4.1 General -- 4.2 Characterization of a malhun metrical pattern -- 4.3 Alphabet and syntax of the malhun-MPs generator -- 4.4 Malhun poetic idiom's metrical wheel -- 4.5 Metrical embedding, complementarity and line's length -- 5. Lineation and rhyming -- Summary -- References -- Notes -- Part 3. Templates -- Regularities in irregular Chaha verbs -- 1. The problem -- 2. Monoconsonantal verbs -- 2.1 Alternations of the Perfective -- 2.2 Alternations of the Imperative -- 2.3 Alternations of the Imperfective -- 2.4 Independence and assimilation: Wɨyə-m 'he descended' and nɨyə-m 'he slept' -- 2.5 Quadrisyllabic shortening -- 3. Biconsonantal verbs -- 3.1 Alveolar versus alveopalatal alternation.

3.2 [r] versus [y] alternation -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- Overlapping morphologies in Arabic hypocoristics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hypocoristic suffixes sounding like possessive suffixes -- 2.1 First person singular possessive suffix -i/-ti in Kuwaiti Arabic -- 2.2 Third person singular masculine possessive suffix -u -- 3. Other suffixed hypocoristics -- 3.1 Hypocoristics formed by suffixing -aat in Levantine Arabic -- 3.2 Hypocoristics formed by suffixing -iin in Kuwaiti Arabic -- 3.3 Hypocoristics formed by suffixing -aan in Kuwaiti Arabic -- 3.4 Hypocoristics formed by suffixing -uun in Kuwaiti Arabic -- 4. KA hypocoristics based on analogy with existing words or PNs -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- Staying away from the weak left edge -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Strength and strengthening -- 2.1 Segmental strength and positional strength -- 2.2 Strength and strengthening -- 3. The beginning of the hypocoristic -- 3.1 Deriving hypocoristics -- 3.2 The left edge -- 4. Gradient mis-anchoring in Hebrew hypocoristics -- 4.1 The left-edge parameter in Hebrew hypocoristics -- 4.2 Mis-anchoring and the strength hierarchy -- 5. Limitations on strengthening -- References -- Notes -- The Modern Hebrew template tQuLa in light of Jean Lowenstamm's work -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The CV template of tQuLa is tripartite -- 3. Analyticity, the no-straddling government effect and the peculiarity of tQuLa -- 4. Phonology as the manifestation of morpho-syntactic structure -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- Templates and representations in phonology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is a template in acquisition and what is it good for -- 3. Templates and templatic behaviors in the acquisition of French -- 3.1 Spreading, reduplication and autosegmental representations -- 3.2 aCV patterns and morphological constraints on the early template.

4. Conclusion: Why phonological representations are useful -- References -- Notes -- On templates -- 0. Preface -- 1. Introduction: Can words be anything? -- 2. Is shape templaticity a general property of natural languages? A comparison of French, Mohawk and Semitic. -- 3. Gothic verb inflection -- 4. Conclusion: What are templates? -- References -- Notes -- Part 4. The Phonology-Syntax interface -- The Ins and Outs of phonology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Outs: What is not phonology -- 2.1 Contrast -- 2.2 Articulation -- 2.3 Diachrony -- 2.4 Morphological Alternations -- 2.5 Segments -- 3. The Ins: What is phonology -- References -- Notes -- Phase cycles, φ-cycles, and phonological (In)activity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phase cycles and (In)activity -- 3. Phonological behavior of inactive material -- 4. Towards a revised PIP -- 5. Phase cycles and φ-cycles -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Notes -- Sepp vs Paradigms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Initial facts -- 3. Morpho-phonological asymmetries -- 4. Semantic asymmetries -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- On Plurals, noun phrase and num(ber) in Moroccan Arabic and Djibouti Somali -- 1. Number in Moroccan Arabic nouns -- 2. Emphasis spread -- 3. Number in Somali -- 4. -yáal plurals in DJ -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Notes -- The initial CV -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Diacritic sleepers vs. phonologically meaningful objects -- 3. The initial CV parameterized: Languages may or may not have it -- 3.1 Stable cross-linguistic effects disqualify diacritics -- 3.2 Three for the price of one -- 4. Predictions made by the parameterisation of the initial CV -- 5. The initial CV is not recorded in the lexical entry of its host -- 5.1 The initial CV must not be a sleeper -- 5.2 (Non-) privativity: an echo of SPE -- 5.3 The initial CV is online-created information -- 6. The initial and other CVs.

6.1 Carriers of morpho-syntactic information reduce to syllabic space -- 6.2 CV units that have been found to carry morpho-syntactic information -- References -- Notes -- Part 5. Selected Issues in Afro-Asiatic (Morpho-)Syntax and Semantics -- Causatives, anticausatives and lexicalization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexicalization -- 3. Causatives -- 4. Anticausatives -- 5. Anticausativization, reflexivization and internal causation -- 6. "Walk" -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Notes -- A note on labeling, Berber states and VSO order -- 1. The Construct State in Berber -- 2. Labeling -- 3. The construct state is the shape of a noun merged with K. -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- The interpretation of Construct-State morphology -- References -- Notes -- Index.