Heinz Giegerich

Biography

• the representation of prosodic structure within the theory of Metrical Phonology
• stress, poetic metre and more generally aspects of prosodic structure in the history of English
• the status of orthography in phonological structures, and in phonological theory in general
• the distinction between 'lexical' and 'postlexical' phenomena, both in morphology and phonology
• the theory of "base-driven lexical stratification", which he developed in the 1990s
• the interfaces of the morphology with the phonology and the syntax
• the study of morphological and syntactic phenomena which suggest that lexical levels, as well as the morphology and the syntax, are not discrete modules of the grammar but overlap with each other
• the analysis of compound words within the theory of Lexicalism

Publications

• Metrical phonology and phonological structure: German and English . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
• English phonology: an introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Lexical strata in English: morphological causes, phonological effects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Lexical structures: compounding and the modules of grammar''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.