Russian prefixes and prepositions in Stratal OT
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چکیده
A less discussed point — though equally evident — is that Russian prefixes and prepositions cannot be unified as a class on the basis of their morphosyntactic characteristics. The theoretical aim of the present work is to resolve the apparent contradiction between the phonological unity and the morphosyntactic disunity of these two categories, by proposing a Stratal Optimality Theoretic approach (Kiparsky, 2000) in which prefixes and prepositions are evaluated at distinct strata (word and postlexical levels, respectively).
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