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Stem alternations and multiple exponence
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Matthew Baerman
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and Greville G. Corbett
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Authors’ addresses: (Matthew Baerman, Greville Corbett) Surrey Morphology Group Department of English Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences AC Building University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH UK Email: ,
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Abstract

In a canonical inflectional paradigm, inflectional affixes mark distinctions in morphosyntactic value, while the lexical stem remains invariant. But stems are known to alternate too, constituting a system of inflectional marking operating according to parameters which typically differ from those of the affixal system, and so represent a distinct object of inquiry. Cross-linguistically, we still lack a comprehensive picture of what patterns of stem alternation are found, and hence the theoretical status of stem alternations remains unclear. We propose a typological framework for classifying stem alternations, basing it on the paradigm-internal relationship between the features marked by stem alternations versus those marked by affixes. Stem alternations may mark completely different features from the affixes (§2), or the same features (§3). Within the latter, the values may match (§3.1) – a rare situation – or be conflated (§3.2). Conflation in turn may involve natural semantic/morphosyntactic classes (§3.2.1), or phonological conditioning (§3.2.2), or be morphologically stipulated (§3.2.3). These patterns typically reveal stems’ continued allegiance to lexical as opposed to inflectional organizing principles.

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Word Structure is a peer-reviewed, international journal of linguistic morphology and all related disciplines. Its outlook is both synchronic and diachronic. Its interests are both empirical and theoretical. Its aim is to further the understanding of the nature of words, in every sense and in the broadest definition, in the languages of the world by applying to that concept the methodologies of disciplines such as morphology, syntax and phonology, of sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, of formal, computational, cognitive and historical linguistics and of any other relevant sub-discipline of linguistics.

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Erich Round, University of Surrey and University of Queensland
Andrea Sims, Ohio State University
Peter Arkadiev, University of Potsdam
Richard Huyghe, University of Fribourg

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Farrell Ackerman, University of California-San Diego
Stephen Anderson, Yale University
Jenny Audring, University of Leiden
Greville Corbett, University of Surrey
Bernard Fradin, CNRS and University Paris 7
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Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
Martin Hilpert, Université de Neuchâtel
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