Analogy and other types of non-phonetic change in Bizkaian Basque

Abstract

HUALDE1 Cf.McMahon's (1994: 70) claim that "there are few, if any, cases of absolute regular analogy".It seems that Basque does present some such cases.2 In addition to their phonetic conditioning both rules are, however, morphologically conditioned.Thus, palatalization after /i/ does not apply in compounds (e.g.belarri-luze 'long-eared') and the rising of /a/ to /e/ after a high vowel takes place with some suffixes but not with others (see Hualde 1991).3 Although in relation to a different example, this criterion to determine the cause of a change is used by Mitxelena (1988Mitxelena ( [1960]]: 38): "Nolanahi ere, horrelako lege fonetikorik ezagutzen ez dugunez gero, analogia izan bide da aldaketa horren eragilea."[In any event, since we do not know any phonetic rule of that type, the trigger of that change must have been analogy].

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