Suzanne Urbanczyk
University of Victoria
Linguistic Inquiry | 1999
John Alderete; Jill Beckman; Laura Benua; Amalia Gnanadesikan; John J. McCarthy; Suzanne Urbanczyk
Fixed segmentism is the phenomenon whereby a reduplicative morpheme contains segments that are invariant rather than copied. We investigate it within Optimality Theory, arguing that it falls into two distinct types, phonological and morphological. Phonological fixed segmentism is analyzed under the OT rubric of emergence of the unmarked. It therefore has significant connections to markedness theory, sharing properties with other domains where markedness is relevant and showing context-dependence. In contrast, morphological fixed segmentism is a kind of affixation, and so it resembles affixing morphology generally. The two types are contrasted, and claims about impossible patterns of fixed segmentism are developed.
Archive | 1995
Jill Beckman; Amherst. Beckman; N. Jill; Laura Walsh Dickey; Suzanne Urbanczyk
Archive | 1996
Suzanne Urbanczyk
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2006
Suzanne Urbanczyk
Archive | 1995
John Alderete; Jill Beckman; Laura Walsh; Suzanne Urbanczyk
Archive | 1995
Jill Beckman; Laura Walsh Dickey; Suzanne Urbanczyk
Archive | 2005
Suzanne Urbanczyk
Archive | 2004
Suzanne Urbanczyk
Archive | 2013
Claire K Turner; Suzanne Urbanczyk
Phonology | 2008
Suzanne Urbanczyk
