Sign-Based Morphology: A Declarative Theory of Phonology-Morphology Interleaving

orgun@cogsci.berkeley.edu 2 Sign-Based Morphology: a declarative theory of phonology-morphology interleaving Cemil Orhan Orgun University of California, Berkeley 1. Setting the stage The issue: Is phonology-morphology interleaving derivational? When the issue of serialism is discussed, the issue of cyclic application of phonology is often not distinguished from rule ordering within a cycle, the assumption being that both are equally unacceptable in a parallelistic approach. However, these two issues are of course logically independent. The aim of this paper is to show that phonology-morphology interleaving (“cyclicity” and “level ordering”) effects can be captured in a strictly declarative approach to morphology. The non-interleaving model: a direct mapping from the set of underlying phonological strings to the surface phonological string, no intermediate strings: (1) morpheme1

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