Paradigmatic OO-Identity constraints force overapplication of phonology in the Austronesian
language Sundanese. In plurals created by infixation, progressive nasal assimilation applies …

This dissertation addresses the question of how various types of morpheme realization are
to be coherently explained within the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky …

Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Arabic are known for what has become
characterised as their discontiguous or non-concatenative morphology. In the overwhelming …

This work proceeds from two fundamental assumptions which have nevertheless not always
received wide acceptance in the fields of phonology and sociolinguistics:(1) that the …

This paper presents an alternative to earlier views of Semitic morphology. Data from Modern
Hebrew exemplify that output-based prosodic restrictions form the basis of the unusual root …

This is a dissertation about prosodic structural restrictions in language. It investigates in
detail the prosodic structure of Modern Hebrew, using the framework of Optimality Theory to …

Past theoretical analyses have claimed that some languages employ a special type of
phonological spreading of a consonant over a vowel, long-distance consonantal spreading …

McCarthy 1997 makes the important proposal that phonological opacity arises through
constraints on a new type of correspondence relation holding within the candidate set that …

The focus of this study is process morphology in Guébie, an endangered Kru language
spoken in Côte d'Ivoire. Unlike many primarily affixing morphological systems, much of the …

While affix ordering often reflects general syntactic or semantic principles, it can also be
arbitrary or variable. This article develops a theory of morpheme ordering based on local …