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Templatic metathesis in Tigre imperatives*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Noam Faust
Noam Faust*
Affiliation:
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
*
E-mail: faustista@yahoo.com.
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Abstract

In the paradigms of certain Tigre verbs, the final stem consonant and the vocalic suffix metathesise in some configurations. In this short paper, this is analysed as a hiatus-resolving strategy. The limits and consequences of this strategy are shown to follow from the representation of verbs, in an analysis conducted within CVCV phonology and Element Theory.

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Research Article
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Phonology , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , August 2014 , pp. 209 - 227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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Footnotes

*I would like to thank my colleagues at the Hebrew University, Nora Boneh, Edit Doron and Ivy Sichel, as well as Danny Fox and the Language, Logic and Cognition Center for financial support of this study. I further thank my informant, Mohammad Abdu.

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