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| Title: | Circumscriptive Morphemes |
| Authors: | Paul de Lacy |
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| Length: | 18 |
| Abstract: | Circumscriptive Morphemes Paul de Lacy University of Massachusetts The aim of this paper is to present evidence for a hitherto unrecognised type of morpheme: a haplologizing reduplicant, dubbed a 'circumscriptive morpheme' here. Unlike standard reduplicants, these morphemes coalesce with phonological material instead of copying it. Circumscriptive morphemes are shown to be essential in accounting for morphologically-induced lengthening and reduplicative infixation in the Polynesian language Maori. Other potential applications - as in parsing-out circumscription, truncation, and subtractive morphology - are also discussed. Keywords: circumscription, haplology, reduplication, Base |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |