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Non-local spirantization in Breton1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Gregory T. Stump
Gregory T. Stump
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University of Kentucky
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Among the most striking morphosyntactic characteristics shared by the Celtic languages are their elaborate consonant mutation systems. It is clear from the most cursory inspection that in such systems, the range of possible syntactic relations between mutation triggers and their targets is subject to principled limits. In a recent paper, Zwicky (1984) has hypothesized that trigger-target relations are universally restricted by the constraint in (1):(1) The trigger determining a rule feature for a morphophonemic rule must be adjacent to the affected word and c-command it (Zwicky, 1984:389).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , September 1988 , pp. 457 - 481
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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