Circumscription Revisited An Analysis of Maori Reduplication

It is argued that the process of circumscription must be reintroduced to current theories of prosodic morphology, specifically to Correspondence Theory. This notion has broader effects than the serial circumscriptive process, affecting concepts of categorisation within the grammar, as shown by discussion of the notion ‘base of reduplication’. The reduplicative processes of the Maori language are analysed in this regard, and a hitherto unrecognised type of reduplication in this language is identified. Various other aspects of current phonological and morphological interest, such as lexical organisation, are also discussed.