Stress Uniformity in Albanian

Morphological Arguments for Cyclicity

Bibliographic Data

ID4318751
AuthorsJochen Trommer (0000-0001-6381-2418, Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig, Beethovenstr. 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume44
Issue1
Pages109-143
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00121
OpenAlexW2025239310
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited16

The uniformity of stress assignment across inflectional forms in Albanian leads to massive phonological opacity, which seems to lend itself either to paradigmatic output-output constraints ( Benua 1997 , McCarthy 2005 ) or to a stratal organization of phonology ( Kiparsky 2000 , Bermúdez-Otero 2008 ) where inflected word forms preserve the stress assigned to stems at an earlier stratum. In this article, I show that a detailed analysis of Albanian morphology provides strong evidence for a stratal account: stress position in inflected word forms is correctly predicted by their stems, but not by ( partially defective) paradigms

Linguistics · Phonology · Stress (linguistics) · Syllabification · Syllable · Word (group theory) · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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