Expressing Inflection Tonally
In Limburg Dutch, the difference between neuter and feminine agreement on adjectives is expressed by a difference in lexical tone. This paper argues that this distinction is due to a difference in underlying representations and not to a paradigmatic antifaithfulness effect. In particular, it argues for a specific version of REALIZE-MORPHEME, the constraint demanding every underlying morpheme to be present in phonological surface representations. The key argument is that a schwa suffix turns up whenever the tonal change from neuter to feminine is not possible.
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2005 |
Schlagwörter: | Dialectology / Lexical tones / Morphology-phonology interface / Optimality Theory / Paradigm uniformity / Dutch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28611490 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/4805 |