Suppletive (?) tonal alternations in Munken nouns
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چکیده
The most obvious interpretation of Paster’s results is that tonally conditioned PCSA is in fact extremely rare. Before accepting this interpretation, however, it is important to consider the possibility that a significant class of examples was systematically neglected, though not for want of a large and balanced survey. Since Paster’s stated focus was on affixal morphology, it may have been that non-affixal morphological processes were not as carefully scrutinized. Another way that cases of tonal PCSA might have been missed could involve Paster’s decision to “. . . focus on the clearest cases. . . ” (2006: 31) of suppletion. The problem of cases of tonal allomorphy which are unclear as to whether they are suppletive is the focus of this paper. I will consider as a case study a set of tonal alternations observed in the Munken dialect of Mungbam.
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