“gp2pth2” — 2009/9/8 — 14:17 — page 1 — #1 GP 2, and Putonghua too Sašo Živanovi´ c Markus A. Pöchtrager saso.zivanovic@guest.arnes.si markus.pochtrager@boun.edu.tr Univerza v Ljubljani Bo˘ gaziçi Üniversitesi Ljubljana, Slovenia ˙ Istanbul, Turkey The Gang of Four The Gang of Four The Gang of Four The Gang of Four The Gang of Four The Gang of Four The Gang of Four The Gang of Four The Gang of Four Jonathan Kaye Sean Jensen jdkaye10@gmail.com phonologus@gmail.com Univerza v Ljubljani Ljubljana, Slovenia Shanghai, China 1 The Name of the Game This article is designed to be a showcase for some of the salient features of Govern- ment Phonology (GP) 2.0. The choice of language is Putonghua, a somewhat artificial northern dialect of the Han language family and designated as the standard language of the PRC—roughly equivalent to the RP of the United Kingdom. Putonghua is an ideal “laboratory animal” in that it is rather fussy about what can occur with what in the internal structure of its constituent structure. The elements involved in Putonghua phonology are also subject to a variety of positional constraints. Lastly, all four of the “Gang of Four” are familiar with the language and three of us have spent significant lengths of time in the PRC. Our goal, then, is to subject Putonghua data to analysis based on the nascent and very much immature theory we call GP 2.0. Such analyses are vital to the development of any would-be theory and will permit us to more accurately see the strengths and deficiencies of its current state as well as a fine tuning of the more successful of its postulates and, of course, the disposal of non-functioning components along with the formulation of entirely new ones. Given these rather ambitious goals, as well as the limited space at our disposal, we are sadly unable to offer an analysis of the entire Putonghua onset-rime system. Most notably, we will not be dealing with the L-element in this study. As a consequence the role of the nasals n and N in Putonghua rimes with not be addressed. This present work takes earlier GP analyses as its starting point. Most notably, Goh (1996), Kaye (2001), Neubarth and Rennison (2002), Ferme (2002), Ferme and Živanovi´ c (2006) and Ferme (2009) provide the bulk of the data and the analysis which we now attempt to interpret according to the principles of GP 2.0. Readers familiar 1