Shifting Interactions and Countershifting Opacity: a Note on Opacity in Harmonic Serialism

• Autores: Ezer Rasin
• Localización: Linguistic inquiry, ISSN 0024-3892, Vol. 53, Nº 4, 2022, págs. 836-851
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This squib proposes to extend the traditional taxonomy of pairwise process interactions (which contains “feeding,” “bleeding,” “counterfeeding,” and “counterbleeding”) to include the classes “shifting” and “countershifting.” A process “shifts” another if it does not feed or bleed it but rather causes it to apply in a different way. “Countershifting” is the opaque counterfactual inverse of shifting, and it fills a terminological gap identified by Kiparsky (2015). The class of countershifting interactions is claimed to be theoretically significant: Harmonic Serialism is able to apply the opaque process in countershifting interactions but generally not in counterfeeding or counterbleeding.