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

Chapter 2
An apparent challenge: Morphosyntactic and phonological fusion

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
  • Notes
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