There is a long-standing debate about the principles constraining the combinatorial properties of suffixes. Hay 2002 and Hay & Plag 2004 proposed a model in which suffixes can be ordered along a hierarchy of processing complexity. We show that this model generalizes to a larger set of suffixes, and we provide independent evidence supporting the…

Discussion of a class of verbs in the Germanic languages. (DD)

Presents a new set of experimental data from brain-damaged aphasic patients as well as from normal individuals on the processing of two nominals suffixes in Japanese--"-sa" and "-mi." (Author/VWL)

Offers a detailed analysis of the English suffix "-ee" (employee, refugee, etc.) based on 1,500 naturally occurring tokens of 500 word types. Argues that certain semantic constraints, taken together, amount to a special-purpose thematic role that actively constrains productive use of derivational morphology. (Author/MSE)

Expanded version of a paper presented at the 3rd Regional Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 21-22, 1972. (DD)

Examines the behavior of the morpheme, um, in Toba Batak and Tagalog, which alternates as a prefix or an infix, arguing that the variation is conditioned by constraints on consonant clusters. Three patterns of variation that occur with um are described, noting that the stages involved in changing from infixed to prefixed positions over time are…