TY - JOUR
TI - A Generalized Nonlinear Affixation Approach to Polish Palatalizations
AU - Zdziebko, Sławomir
TI - A Generalized Nonlinear Affixation Approach to Polish Palatalizations
AB - The paper offers an autosegmental approach to Polish palatalizations whereby the presence of palatalizing features is the result of the translation of morpho-­syntactic features into phonological features. In the first part I present an analysis of the structural change of the relevant palatalizations, which boils down to the account of how floating autosegments are integrated into the underlying structures of the stem-­final segments. The second part is preoccupied with how relevant autosegments are inserted into representation: the palatalizing floating features are phonological ‘halves’ of vocabulary items matching the feature sets marking inflectional categories in Polish. The paper finishes with the discussion of the distribution of the endings i/y/i~ɨ/ and e /ɛ/ as the markers of the Dative and Locative in one of the declension classes in Polish. I show that the approach advocated here fares better at predicting the distribution of the said endings than the better established approach presented in Gussmann (2007).
VL - Volume 10 (2015)
IS - Vol. 10, Issue 1
PY - 2015
SN - 1732-8160
C1 - 2300-5920
SP - 17
EP - 55
DO - 10.4467/23005920SPL.15.002.3229
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/a-generalized-nonlinear-affixation-approach-to-polish-palatalizations
KW - morpho­phonology
KW - palatalization
KW - licensing constraints
KW - Distributed Morphology
KW - Element Theory