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Final Tensing in Kurpian

Publication date: 17.06.2014

Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 9 (2014), Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 45 - 65

https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.14.003.2187

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Jerzy Rubach
University of Warsaw
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3389-5547 Orcid
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Final Tensing in Kurpian

Abstract

This article investigates the occurrence of tense vowels in Kurpian and reports on the results of my fieldwork conducted in the villages of central Kurpia. The article looks at declensional paradigms of nouns and concludes that lax vowels alternate with tense vowels when they are followed by a voiced consonant (an obstruent or a sonorant) at the end of the word. The descriptive generalizations are analysed formally in terms of Derivational Optimality Theory, a framework that is well equipped to handle the opacity unveiled by the Kurpian data.

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Information: Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 9 (2014), Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 45 - 65

Article type: Original article

Titles:

English:

Final Tensing in Kurpian

Polish: Ścieśnienia końcowe w dialekcie kurpiowskim

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3389-5547

Jerzy Rubach
University of Warsaw
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3389-5547 Orcid
All publications →

University of Warsaw

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

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