Mora Obstruent Allomorphy In Sino-Japanese Morphemes

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Overview

Modern Japanese exhibits apparently irregular
allomorphic
behaviour amongst a subset of bimoraic S[ino]-J[apanese]
morphemes, those with a final mora in -/ki/, when
appearing as the
initial morpheme in a SJ bimorphemic compound whose
second
morpheme is /k/-initial. Detailed examination of
synchronic and
diachronic written corpora concludes that what is
being witnessed is
not irregularity as claimed in previous research, but
homomorphemic diffusion, a process akin to lexical
diffusion
operating on a homomorphemic level. The independent
status of
homomorphemic diffusion is lent further weight by the
phenomenon's conforming to Bybee's (2000, 2001, 2002)
and
Phillips' (1998, 2001) theories that higher frequency
lexemes (here
homomorphs) tend to be affected earlier and more
thoroughly in the
case of reductive sound changes. When all the
evidence here
presented is examined, homomorphs appear to be
behaving in
lexical diffusionist terms just as individual lexemes
or morphemes
might be expected to.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9783639075779
  • Publisher: VDM Verlag
  • Publication date: 4/21/2009
  • Pages: 208

Meet the Author

Mark Irwin

Mark Irwin was born in Faribault, Minnesota and has lived throughout the United States and abroad in France and Italy. He is the author of four previous collections of poetry: The Halo of Desire, Against the Meanwhile, Quick, Now, Always (BOA Editions), and White City (BOA Editions). His poetry and essays have appeared widely in many literary journals. Among his literary awards are National Endowment for the Arts and Ohio Art Council Fellowships, two Pushcart Prizes, the James Wright Poetry Award and a Fulbright Fellowship to Romania. He lives with his family in Denver.

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