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Morphological contrast and merger: ranuki in Japanese by Junko Ito; Armin Mester is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Morphological contrast and merger: ranuki in Japanese about?
This paper deals with ra-nuki ('bt£#, Va-dropping') in the potential form of vowelverbs (tabe-re-ru instead of tabe-rare-ru 'can eat ', etc.). By extending systemic and contrast-based notions originating in recent OT phonology into morphological paradigms, it argues that this ongoing change in current Japanese can be given a formal analysis that does justice to its functional motivation, which lies in an improved differentiation between potential and passive forms. Areas of interest: Morphology; Optimal ity Theory '(You) cannot exit from here.' We will develop an OT analysis of this phenomenon after a brief overview and preliminary considerations regarding allomorph selection.
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- Author
- Junko Ito; Armin Mester
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH (ISSN 0197-3150)
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)