The Fate of the Consonantal Root and the Binyan in Optimality Theory
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The paper provides an Optimality Theoretic account to Modern Hebrew nonconcatenative morphology. It argues that the base of derivation is the word/stem, modified by constraints assigning the prosodic structure, the vocalic pattern, and the affixes (if any). The notion of the binyan is viewed as a configuration of the structures assigned by these constraints. The consonantal root is entirely eliminated from the grammar, a result supported by arguments from historical change and learnability.
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