-Quantitative Transfer in Reduplicative and Templatic Morphology

On the Proper Characterization of ‘Nonconcatenative’ Languages

Nonconcatenative languages have been claimed to employ a special type of phonological spreading of a consonant over a vowel, which assumes a representation that segregates consonants and vowels on different planes. I argue that this type of spreading can and must be eliminated from the theory, by reducing it to segmental copying as in reduplication. Crucial to this reduction is the notion of gr...

Minimizing RED: Nasal Copy in Mbe

In this paper, I argue that a nasal agreement phenomenon in Mbe (BenueCongo, Nigeria; Bamgbose 1971) is a case of reduplication in which material is copied as a nasal coda to a CV prefix with place features linked to the following onset; if place-linking fails, no copy occurs. I demonstrate that this account has important analytical implications for Mbe and more generally, for the theory of red...

1 L Aryngeals in G Uarijío ( U to - a Ztecan ) : S Ynchrony

This paper examines the synchronic status of laryngeal consonants (glottal stop and h) in Guarijío, a Uto-Aztecan language of Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico. I focus on their word-internal distribution in roots and affixes and their behavior under reduplication, showing that both have a very limited distribution and arguing that a different analysis is appropriate for each. I argue that h is a co...

Prosodic Morphology and Templatic Morphology

Arabic Morphology Parsing Revisited

In this paper we propose a new approach to the description of Arabic morphology using 2-tape finite state transducers, based on a particular and systematic use of the operation of composition in a way that allows for incremental substitutions of concatenated lexical morpheme specifications with their surface realization for non-concatenative processes (the case of Arabic templatic interdigitati...