The Productivity of Infixation in Lakhota*
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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 prefix for some verbs, and as an infix for others. I combine computational modeling of the Lakhota lexicon and an experimental “wug” test, to show that infixed person marking is highly sensitive to context, just like other types of morphological irregularity.
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