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Choguita Rarámuri - Linguistics - University of California, Berkeley

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39) Monostratal analysis <strong>of</strong> allomorph selection<br />

pi"í-ni-ma<br />

sweep-Desid-Fut:sg<br />

‘He will want to sweep’<br />

/pi"í, {-nale, -na}-ma/ MAX-<br />

PROM<br />

a. (pi"í)-nare-ma **!*<br />

! b. (pi"í)-ni-ma **<br />

c. ("i-ná)re-ma *! ** *<br />

d. ("i-ná)-ma *! * *<br />

322<br />

IAMB PARSE-! STRICT<br />

However, with this ranking we would also predict that when two suffixes with<br />

available competing long and short allomorphs are added to a word, we would select two<br />

short allomorphs, in order to minimize the number <strong>of</strong> unparsed syllables. This is shown in<br />

tableau (40).<br />

40) Multiple competing allomorphs in monostratal analysis<br />

pi"í-si-nare<br />

sweep-Mot-Desid<br />

‘He wanted to go along sweeping’<br />

/pi"i, {-si, -simi}, {-na, -nale}/ STRICT IAMB PARSE-!<br />

! a. (pi"í)-si-na **<br />

b. (pi"í)-si-nare ***!<br />

c. (pi"í)-simi-na ***!<br />

d. (pi"í)-simi-nare ***!*<br />

e. ("i-sí)-na *! *<br />

f. ("i-sí)-nare *! **<br />

A ban on unparsed syllables is thus insufficient to model the distribution <strong>of</strong> short<br />

and long allomorphs in <strong>Choguita</strong> <strong>Rarámuri</strong>. In tableau (41) the situation is fixed by<br />

adding ALIGN[! !]Af and ALIGN[!]Af to the ranking as an undominated constraints,

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