Visibility and Intervention in Allomorphy: Lessons from Modern Greek

• Lefteris Paparounas ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Pennsylvania

     University of Pennsylvania

     City of Philadelphia, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Linguistic inquiry, ISSN 0024-3892, Vol. 55, Nº 3, 2024, págs. 537-577
• Idioma: inglés
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  • An often discussed dimension of the locality conditions on allomorphy is visibility: when do the trigger and target of allomorphy “see” each other? An equally important dimension is intervention: when do the trigger and target stop seeing each other? Through the lens of a detailed analysis of Greek verbal morphology, I examine the conditions under which intervention forces the insertion of a default exponent. On the basis of two case studies on affixal allomorphy and one on stem allomorphy, I argue that patterns of intervention are easily accommodated under adjacency-based theories of the locality of allomorphy, and mysterious under less restrictive alternatives.