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Allomorphy without context specification: a case study of Czech adjectival stems

Authors

CAHA Pavel DE CLERCQ Karen VANDEN WYNGAERD Guido

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source MORPHOLOGY
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://rdcu.be/dUoCX
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11525-024-09430-1
Keywords Adjective; Allomorphy; Nanosyntax; Degree Morphology
Description This paper investigates stem-marker allomorphy in Czech adjectives. It shows that ananalysis based on the frequently used context-sensitive rules comes at the expense ofhaving to postulate widespread accidental homophony or disjunctive rules. The paperfurther demonstrates that the allomorphy can be accounted for within an approachbased on portmanteau realisation of features, specifically the version of Nanosyn-tax proposed in Starke (2018), although alternative implementations are conceivable.Along the way, we explore a fine-grained decomposition of adjectival meaning andwe also discuss the implications of these observations for the general issues surround-ing context-sensitive rules compared to other systems of dealing with allomorphy.

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