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Generalized alignment
Yearbook of Morphology (1993)
  • John J McCarthy, university of massachusetts, Amherst
  • Alan Prince
Abstract

Structural relations between grammatical categories (here, morphological and phonological) are governed by a single family of constraints under Optimality Theory: these demand that one type of grammatical constituent share a designated edge with some other type of constituent. Evidence is considered from footing patterns, infixability, epenthesis, syllabification, and prosodic subcategorization.

Publication Date
1993
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Copyright Springer.
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John J McCarthy and Alan Prince. "Generalized alignment" Yearbook of Morphology (1993)
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