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Allomorphy in Persian Past Stems

Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of English, Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, IRAN

Res. J. Recent Sci., Volume 4, Issue (11), Pages 36-41, November,2 (2015)

Abstract

Since Persian has some puzzling cases with regard to the past simple stems (i.e the stems Type II), this study focuses on the morphological treatment of the allomorphy of these verbs. This has been a long-standing issue in morphology addressed in various analyses till now. The one which is going to be described in the current article seems to work approximately well within Optimality Theory. With the evidence of phonological conditioning, the distribution of various morphs appears not to be entirely morphological in character. This study proposes an Output-Oriented morphology in which morphological processes are encoded in FIAT constraints, a type of constraint, and interact with the familiar Faithfulness constraints of Optimality Theory.

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