On a strictly phonological level, vowel harmony is perhaps the best known type of non-adjacent dependency. Vowel harmony restricts the co-occurrence of vowels, regardless of the number of intervening consonants, according to agreement of specific feature or features within a word, a word and its affixes, or sometimes even across word boundaries (van der Hulst & van der Weijer 1995). Mongolian, ...

Huave exhibits "mobile affixation", whereby the placement of individual affixes varies depending on phonological properties affix and stem. Kim (2008, 2010) analyzed these facts within a cyclic cophonology approach through interaction between alignment constraints (McCarthy & Prince, 1993) *CC DEP. Using same core components, this paper develops an alternative, fully parallel analysis.In ap...

Within recent years there has been considerable interest in multiple affixation, particularly in explaining why strings of prefixes and suffixes occur in the orders in which they do. The explanations given have been of either a semantic or syntactic nature, as seen in two influential publications that appeared in the same year. Noting cross-linguistic tendencies to fix certain affix orders, Byb...

This mini-corpus, cross-linguistic, comparative, and norm-referenced study intends to render the most frequently and oft-used affixes in the written descriptive tasks in the performance of English language materials developers (ELMDs) and Iranian English language undergraduates (IELUs). Samples of writings of both groups were studied and analyzed through affixation principles. The frequency of ...

This paper reports on a survey of 62 languages with complex local case morphology, drawn from 5 language families and several language isolates. The local case morphology of all the languages surveyed conforms, without exceptions, to the template in (1), as detailed below. This template shares with recent analyses of spatial PPs (Koopman 2000, den Dikken 2006, Svenonius to appear) the view that...