Non-concatenative morphological phenomena appear on the face of it to require a powerful
morphological component, capable of more than straightforward addition of affixes …

The subject matter of this study is the formal properties of infixes. This study begins with a
catalogue of the placement properties of infixation in Chapter 1, showing that there is a bias …

Reduplication has played a central role in the development of phonological theories for 30
years. The introduction of Classical Optimality Theory (OT) in the 1990s sparked intensive …

Four different kinds of grammars that can define crossing dependencies in human language
are compared here:(i) context sensitive rewrite grammars with rules that depend on …

Reduplication, a phenomenon in which some phonological structure appears to be repeated
for some morphological or grammatical purpose, has long been an area of significant …

Abstract Pima (Uto-Aztecan, central Arizona) pluralizes nouns via partial reduplication. The
amount of material copied varies between a single C (mavit/ma-m-vit 'lion (s)') and CV …

Abstract This dissertation introduces Minimal Reduplication, a new theory and framework
within generative grammar for analyzing reduplication in human language. I argue that …

This effort will argue on several counts that faithfulness constraints governing input
precedence relations must arbitrate the surface positioning of morphological exponence …

Abstract In the Mon-Khmer language Katu (as spoken in the Lao PDR; Costello 1998),
nominalization is marked with a variety of forms at the leftmost periphery of the root word …

Previous research has shown that sign languages display strong cross-linguistic similarities
in their morphological structures. Morphologically complex forms display modality-specific …