On the Status of Stems in Morphological Theory

David Embick, Morris Halle

2005-11-08chapterAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory202 citationsclosed

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Abstract

To a first approximation, languages show two different types of morphological alternation, with ‘alternation ’ construed in a broad sense. One type is concatenative, involving what looks like the affixation of one piece to another; e.g. kick/kick-ed. Another type of alternation involves morphophonological

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