Asymmetric Infixation

The semantics of Yurok Intensive infixation*

The Productivity of Infixation in Lakhota*

A growing body of work on morphological irregularity has shown that the productivity of irregular morphological processes is sensitive to phonological context. However, these studies have focused almost exclusively on patterns of irregularity found in European languages. In this paper, I discuss a typologically different pattern of irregularity found in Lakhota: person marking appears as a pref...

Implications of Katu Nominalization for Infixation Typology

In the Mon-Khmer language Katu (as spoken in the Lao P.D.R.; Costello 1998), nominalization is marked with a variety of forms at the leftmost periphery of the root word, and occasionally as a phonologically reduced infix, /-r-/, appearing in the coda of the initial syllable of the nominalized word. This paper will analyze the Katu case as an example of prosodically conditioned allomorphy, resul...

Infixation without movement : an explanation of the Edge Bias Effect

A survey of 141 infixation patterns from more than 100 languages revealed that infixes invariably appear near the one of the edges of a stem or next to a stressed unit. However, more than 126 cases of these infixes (i.e. 91%) are edge-oriented. This asymmetric distribution of infixes is referred to as the Edge Bias Effect. Recent work in OT attempts to explain this edge bias in terms of the Dis...

The Phonology-Morphology Interface from the perspective of infixation