Rara #109

Legacy number: 109

 Number  109
 Phenomenon  bound morphology (almost) exclusively prefixal
 Found in  Athabaskan lgs [a family possession?]
 Domain  morphology: inflection — types of exponents and their uses
 Type  infrequentale (family possession)
 Keywords  prefix
 Source  Kibrik, Andrej A. (2000). Morphosyntactic peculiarities of the Athabaskan languages of North America. Talk, Universität Konstanz, 14 Dec 2000.
 Violates  #??? (suffixing preference)

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Notes
As analysed by Rice (2000), verb stems are underlyingly initial, being moved right by a late rule; verb affixes would thus be suffixes underlyingly.
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
As analysed by <r>Rice 2000</r>, verb stems are underlyingly initial, being moved right by a late rule; verb affixes would thus be suffixes underlyingly.