Abstract
This paper discusses the blocking of nasal substitution at prefix-prefix boundary in Malay multiple prefixation. It has widely been observed that nasal substitution is the regular solution to resolve nasal-voiceless obstruent clusters in the language. Observation from the DBP-UKM (The Institute of Language and Literature-National University of Malaysia) coipus shows that the clusters are resolved by nasal substitution in nominal multiple prefixes only, as in paij+par+kaja+an -→ [pa.mar.ka.ja.?an] 'enrichment'. It is however blocked in verbal multiple prefixes, as in ni9ij+p9r+kuat+kaii' → [mdm.p9r.ku.wat.kan] 'to cause to be strong'. In previous Malay studies, the non-application of nasal substitution in verbal multiple prefixes is often considered as exceptional. In this paper. I argue that the occurrence of nasal and voiceless obstruent clusters is not an exceptional case. I propose that Malay has co-existent co-phonology, i.e. different constraint rankings for different morphological categories which mean that *NC is obeyed in nominal prefixes but not in verbal prefixes. The violation of *NC is due to a morphologically conditioned phonology constraint i.e. edge integrity that requires the integrity of the morphological constituent. By applying co-phonology. I shall show that both nominal and verbal multiple prefixes have the same set of constraints, but that they are differently ranked in the hierarchy.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 485-509 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Language and Linguistics |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
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Keywords
- Edge integrity
- Morphologically conditioned phonology
- Nasal substitution
- Nasal-final prefixes
- Optimality theory
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
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Edge integrity in malay multiple prefixes. / Syed Jaafar, Sharifah Raihan.
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AB - This paper discusses the blocking of nasal substitution at prefix-prefix boundary in Malay multiple prefixation. It has widely been observed that nasal substitution is the regular solution to resolve nasal-voiceless obstruent clusters in the language. Observation from the DBP-UKM (The Institute of Language and Literature-National University of Malaysia) coipus shows that the clusters are resolved by nasal substitution in nominal multiple prefixes only, as in paij+par+kaja+an -→ [pa.mar.ka.ja.?an] 'enrichment'. It is however blocked in verbal multiple prefixes, as in ni9ij+p9r+kuat+kaii' → [mdm.p9r.ku.wat.kan] 'to cause to be strong'. In previous Malay studies, the non-application of nasal substitution in verbal multiple prefixes is often considered as exceptional. In this paper. I argue that the occurrence of nasal and voiceless obstruent clusters is not an exceptional case. I propose that Malay has co-existent co-phonology, i.e. different constraint rankings for different morphological categories which mean that *NC is obeyed in nominal prefixes but not in verbal prefixes. The violation of *NC is due to a morphologically conditioned phonology constraint i.e. edge integrity that requires the integrity of the morphological constituent. By applying co-phonology. I shall show that both nominal and verbal multiple prefixes have the same set of constraints, but that they are differently ranked in the hierarchy.
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KW - Optimality theory
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