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> 9<br />
In the <strong>in</strong>terest of easy pronounceability certa<strong>in</strong> phonological rules, of a<br />
k<strong>in</strong>d found <strong>in</strong> many languages (assimilation, cluster reduction), happen<br />
<strong>to</strong> affect the <strong>in</strong>flectional exponent -(e)n of adjectives and nouns so<br />
severely that no separate segment rema<strong>in</strong>s and the <strong>in</strong>flection merges<br />
with the stem: the morpheme boundary is hidden with<strong>in</strong> a s<strong>in</strong>gle<br />
segment and the construction thus becomes opaque.<br />
With morphology almost wholly obliterated by reductive phonology,<br />
words already <strong>in</strong>flected once are <strong>in</strong>flected a second time, <strong>to</strong> render the<br />
morphological construction aga<strong>in</strong> transparent.
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