A Note on the Latinate Constraint in English Affixation  

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Rakic, Stanimir

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 4 no. 3 (Mar. 2007), page 45-56.
Topik: English; suffixation; prefixation; Level ordering; Latinate Constraint; language processing; etymology
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In this paper the author analyses different forms of the Latinate Constraint and compares them with the classical theory of Level ordering in lexical phonology and morphology (Kiparsky 1982). The general form of the Latinate Constraint introduced by Bloomfield (1933) and elaborated by Booij (1987, 1994) is not empirically adequate because it allows numerous exceptions. The new form of Latinate Constraint proposed by Plag (1999) is partly based on synchronic distributional relations. The author argues that Plag’s version of the Latinate Constraint involves a ‘vicious circle’ and does not have the required explanatory power for the problem of morphology - phonology interface. The particular problem is that the application of Latinate Constraint does not have much purpose in the area of prefixation because prefixes in fact rarely stack up on each other. Inspired by Hay (2003) the author suggests a hypothesis which could be an object of further research. The meaning of prefixes are usually abstract, and the addressee may find it difficult, or even impossible, to process two abstract meanings in succession

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