Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper proposes a theory of circumfix linearization in Distributed Morphology. The core of the proposal is that circumfixation arises whenever one of two exponents of the same morphosyntactic feature has a prosodic subcategorization frame. This will be exemplified with data from Indonesian ke- -an nominalizations where facts regarding stress placement, the domain of nominalization and other grammatical processes point towards a prosodic-cyclic analysis. The analysis is extended to mode ɩ P-circumfixes in Meskwaki, circuminfixes in Tlahuitoltepec Mixe, and prosodically conditioned circumfixes in German past participles.
Source: Linguistic Variation
DOI: 10.1075/lv.24043.teb
Author: Sören E. Tebay
Institution: Leipzig University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W4414395332