In:The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology
Brent de Chene
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 368] 2025
► pp. 121–153
Chapter 5The suffixal alternations of Japanese verbal inflection
Published online: 3 February 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.368.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.368.c5
Article outline
- 5.1Introduction: Levels of adequacy in phonology
- 5.2Background: A typology of alternations
- 5.3Japanese verbal suffix alternations
- 5.4Four observationally adequate analyses and their predictions
- 5.5Change in progress: The spread of r-Epenthesis
- 5.6Analysis A: A closer look
- 5.7Alternative accounts of innovative r-epenthetic forms
- 5.7.1The putative influence of r-stem inflection
- 5.7.2Category-specific accounts of innovative r-suffixes
- 5.8Conclusion
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