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Date: 19-Sep-2007 From: Getahun Amare <getahunamareyahoo.com> Subject: Non-concatenative Word Formation E-mail this message to a friend
In Semitic languages words, especially verbal stems are derived from consonantal roots with vocalic insertion (vowel insertion between the consonants. For instance, the verbal stem for 'killed' is derived from g-dd-l by insrting the mid central vowel in the space indicated by (-)in Argobba and Amharic. Derivations of this sort can be handled in Prosodic Morphology. But I do not know if there are works to analyze such derivation in Constraint Based theories like HPSG. Please inform me works on this issue.
Many thanks. Getahun Amare
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