5. Morphology in Relation to Phonology
5. Morphology in Relation to Phonology
5. Morphology in Relation to Phonology
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F. Plank, <strong>Morphology</strong> I: <strong>5.</strong> <strong>Morphology</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Relation</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Phonology</strong> 28<br />
To first illustrate what is not at issue here, but what is most common:<br />
morphology apply<strong>in</strong>g <strong>to</strong> morphologically def<strong>in</strong>ed units.<br />
In Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Australian) PLURAL is expressed through<br />
reduplication. The reduplicand is here identified morphologically:<br />
reduplicated is the word stem (or the word itself, if there are no grounds<br />
for dist<strong>in</strong>guish<strong>in</strong>g stems and words <strong>in</strong> this language), whatever its<br />
phonological shape (which segments its conta<strong>in</strong>s, long or short, where<br />
word stress lies, etc.):<br />
SINGULAR<br />
PLURAL<br />
kurdu kurdu-kurdu 'child – children'<br />
kam<strong>in</strong>a kam<strong>in</strong>a-kam<strong>in</strong>a 'girl – girls'<br />
mardukuja mardukuja-mardukuja 'woman – women'
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