| ROA: | 466 |
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| Title: | Anti-faithfulness and Subtractive Morphology |
| Authors: | Graham Horwood |
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| Length: | 21 |
| Abstract: | In the Muskogean language Koasati (Kimball 1991), pluralization in indicative verbs may be shown allomorphically by truncation of a root-final rhyme or consonant. This phenomenon and others like it fall under the heading of subtractive morphology: truncation of a prosodic category from a morphological one. The present work will show that subtractive morphological operations of the type found in Koasati are best accounted for under the Optimality-theoretic Transderivational Anti-faithfulness model of Alderete (2000). The essential argument is that high-ranking anti-MAX constraints are operative on the OO-correspondence relation of the singular/plural paradigm, forcing truncation of at least one segment in the derived word in a manner restricted by more general phonological constraints on the grammar. Examination of anti-faithfulness constraint interactions in the grammars of Koasati, Tohono O\'odham, and Lardil will illustrate a more general morph-phonological framework under which subtractive morphological operations may be analyzed without reference to the syllable or rhyme template which previous analyses of subtraction have relied upon. This is a result desirably in accord with the goals of Prosodic Morphology set out in McCarthy and Prince (1993a). |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Phonology,Morphology |
| Article: | Version 1 |