The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology
Brent de Chene
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 368] 2025. xvii, 259 pp. + index
Brent de Chene
List of John Benjamins publications for which Brent de Chene plays a role.
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Subjects Japanese linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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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