Reduplication with Fixed Segmentism

John Alderete; Jill Beckman; Laura Benua; Amalia Gnanadesikan; John McCarthy; Suzanne Urbanczyk

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Reduplication with Fixed Segmentism

John Alderete, Jill Beckman, Laura Benua, Amalia Gnanadesikan, John McCarthy and Suzanne Urbanczyk

Linguistic inquiry, Vol.30(3), pp.327-364

07/01/1999

DOI: 10.1162/002438999554101

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Abstract

Fixed segmentism is the phenomenon whereby a reduplicative morpheme contains segments that are invariant rather than copied. We investigate it within Optimality Theory, arguing that it falls into two distinct types, phonological and morphological. Phonological fixed segmentism is analyzed under the OT rubric of emergence of the unmarked. It therefore has significant connections to markedness theory, sharing properties with other domains where markedness is relevant and showing context-dependence. In contrast, morphological fixed segmentism is a kind of affixation, and so it resembles affixing morphology generally. The two types are contrasted, and claims about impossible patterns of fixed segmentism are developed.

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Title: Subtitle: Reduplication with Fixed Segmentism
Creators: John Alderete - Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, alderete@linguist.umass.edu
Jill Beckman - Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, jbeckmn@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
Laura Benua - Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, laura_h_benua@umail.umd.edu
Amalia Gnanadesikan - Reasoning, 32-N, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey 08541, amaliag@rci.rutgers.edu
John McCarthy - Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, jmccarthy@linguist.umass.edu
Suzanne Urbanczyk - Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada, urbansu@ucalgary.ca
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Linguistic inquiry, Vol.30(3), pp.327-364
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/002438999554101
ISSN: 0024-3892
eISSN: 1530-9150
Number of pages: 38
Language: English
Date published: 07/01/1999
Academic Unit: Linguistics
Record Identifier: 9984222813502771

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