Brent de Chene

List of John Benjamins publications in which Brent de Chene is involved.

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The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology

Brent de Chene

All linguists recognize that competence in a natural language involves knowledge of a lexicon or dictionary; most assume that it also involves knowledge of a grammatical system. Just where the boundary between the lexicon and the grammar lies, however, is a question on which there is little… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 368] 2025. xvii, 267 pp.

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de Chene, Brent 2020 r -Epenthesis and the bigrade alternation: The role of phonological distance in the regularization of Japanese verbal inflection Diachronica 37:2, pp. 178–214 | Article

For Japanese verbal suffixes sensitive to the C/V status of the stem-final segment, C-stem alternants are underlying, and regular V-stem alternants result from intervocalic epenthesis of r at stem boundary (de Chene 2016). This “Analysis A” entails that any V-stem suffix not consisting of r plus… read more