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In:The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology
Brent de Chene
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 368] 2025
► pp. 18–49

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Chapter 2
An apparent challenge: Morphosyntactic and phonological fusion

Published online: 3 February 2025

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.368.c2

Article outline

2.1Introduction
2.2Morphosyntactic and phonological fusion
2.3Fusion in Japonic: The case of Dunan
- 2.3.1Background and preview
- 2.3.2Prolegomenon: Rules and morphomes
- 2.3.3Fundamentals of Dunan verbal inflection
- 2.3.4Hiatus at verb stem boundary: A first pass
- 2.3.5Suffixal allomorphy
- 2.3.6Stem alternations
  - 2.3.6.1Velar-final stems
  - 2.3.6.2Vowel-final stems
  - 2.3.6.3r-stems
  - 2.3.6.4s-stems
- 2.3.7Readjustment, rule ordering, and derivations
- 2.3.8Motivation for the analysis
- 2.3.9Conclusion
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