Phonologically motivated lexical repair strategies are conservative
Abstract
We examine the derivation of intransitive verbs from adjectives in Hungarian. Two phonologically unrelated suffixes are added to adjectival stems in almost complementary distribution: -ul~ül and -od~ed~öd-. We show that this suffixation abides with various phonological and morphological constraints in addition to being lexically conservative: the stem of the intransitive verb must occur also as the stem of its transitive counterpart.
Keywords
allomorph selection, lexical conservatism, prosodic conditioning, deadjectival derivation, HungarianReferences
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