This dissertation develops optimality-theoretic analyses of word-level stress assignment in
two languages with lexical accent, Cupeño (Takic, Uto-Aztecan) and Hittite (Anatolian, Indo …

The reduplicative systems of the ancient Indo-European languages are characterized by an
unusual alternation in the shape of the reduplicant. The related languages Ancient Greek …

The chapter argues that the Hittite ḫi-conjugation developed from the PIE perfect through
the development to a past tense–which crucially comes down to a shift from stative to …

In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

Il presente lavoro è dedicato a uno studio storico-comparativo delle formazioni causative
sintetiche ricostruibili per l'indoeuropeo, suddivisibili in tre tipi: temi ad affisso nasale, temi …

Reduplication in Acehnese serves many functions, such as plurality, reciprocity, emphasis,
continuity, and repetitions. This word formation process has been previously analyzed in …

This paper presents a systematic reassessment of Sturtevant's Law (Sturtevant 1932), which
governs the differing outcomes of Proto-Indo-European voiced and voiceless obstruents in …

It is widely thought that (i) Proto-Indo-European had*-mon-stem nominals formed by internal
derivation from neuter*-men-stems and that (ii) these*-mon-stems were characterized by …

This article is a sequel to my contribution entitled “When words coalesce: chunking and
morphophonemic extension” in the volume The Indo-European verb (ed. H. Craig Melchert …

§ 1.1 Asymmetries in Anatolian reduplication: Recent work on the phonology of Anatolian
verbal partial reduplication (Dempsey 2015; Yates and Zukoff 2016) has established that …