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Multiple feature affixation in Seenku plural formation

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Author	McPherson, Laura
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	Nominal plural formation in Seenku involves two surface changes: fronting of the final vowel and raising of the final tone. Diachronically, the plural patterns likely derive from a suffix *- , which has been obscured through the loss of falling sonority diphthongs. By comparing plural formation to other morphophonological processes in Seenku, this paper argues that the plural suffix has been restructured as a featural suffix consisting of two features: the vocalic feature [+front], resulting in vowel fronting, and the tonal feature [+raised], resulting in tone raising. Given the atomic nature of the morphosyntactic feature plural, Seenku plural formation represents a strong case of multiple feature affixation, albeit a case that can be accounted for through Max constraints on feature values (Lombardi 2001, etc.) and Realize-Morpheme (van Oostendorp 2005; Trommer 2012) rather than the constraint Max-Flt argued for by Wolf (2007). A level-ordered approach retaining the vocalic suffix is also considered but is shown to suffer from a number of shortcomings, particularly with respect to tone and a challenging class of nasal stems. In short, this paper explores how the synchronic grammar copes with the vestiges of affixal morphology in a language that has undergone heavy reduction.
Starting Page	217
Ending Page	252
Page Count	36
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18715621
Journal	Morphology
Volume Number	27
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18715656
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2017-03-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Featural affixation Plural Mande Tone OT Stratal Phonology Linguistics Comparative Linguistics Phonology Sign Language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language

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