This paper studies the effect of ongoing contact on the Abui reduplication system. Abui, a
Papuan indigenous minority language of eastern Indonesia, has been in contact with the …

The plural system of Mubi (East Chadic, Afroasiatic) stands out cross-linguistically within
Chadic and worldwide for its extensive use of pattern morphology, fixing the output's vowel …

This article examines the interactions between reduplication, sound change, and borrowing,
as played out in the Iwaidja language of Cobourg Peninsula, Arnhem Land, in Northern …

Semitic languages are typologically unusual in making extensive morphological use of so-
called “root-and-pattern” morphology, in the form of fixed-length templates that fix vowel …

Abui is a non-Austronesian (Papuan) language spoken in the Alor-Pantar Archipelago in
Eastern Indonesia by about 16,000 people. A linguistic description of the northern Abui …

It is well known that Bantu verbal reduplication is typically prefixing and governed by
prosodic constraints (Hyman et al. 1998). In many cases, the issue of identifying the base …

I first describe the form of verbal reduplication in Arapaho, including irregularities with vowel-
initial verbs that point to an ongoing change in the form of the reduplicant. I then turn to the …

This paper argues that, in Twi (Akan), the shape of a reduplicant, and the resulting
segmental processes and reduplicated output are largely determined by its input's inherent …

The universal typology of infixation (McCarthy and Prince, 1993; and Prince and Smolensky,
1993) states that an affix can be either a prefix or a suffix. The infixal position of an affix is the …