...The assumptions of biuniqueness and monosystemicity in phonological systems are challenged. Both assumptions obscure differences of function within a system and complicates analysis. Morphophonemic alternations and unique underliers are discussed in relation to monosystemicity. The tension between...

.... Nowhere is the interdependence of phonology and grammar more obvious than in the case of phonologically conditioned alternations in the forms of words or morphemes. The principle of biuniqueness made it impossible for post-Bloomfieldian phonemics to treat most automatic alternations as part of a unified...

... to the issues of biuniqueness and monosystemicity, segmentation, and phonetic implementation and abstractness; a final chapter deals with panlectal grammars....

... of the discussion in Chapter 2), “stripping” of inflection from elements of a compound, and the “uniformity of head marking”, among others; it is found that none accounts for all types of ME. Optimality theory may be able to account for all types. ME is counter to the principles of biuniqueness, economy...

.... English canonicality canonicity case complexity learnability resources transparency biuniqueness inflectional categories Ainu dependent marking gender number person Kwaza Mian Ok languages Yagua Amazonian languages classifiers portmanteau Iwaidjan languages Mandarin Chinese Mawng...

... of biuniqueness, economy, and iconicity. To further refine its meaning, the chapter compares ME with related phenomena, including repetition of a semantic feature, redundancy, reduplication, bipartite morphemes, discontinuous and distributed exponence, morphological stem selection, and the Obligatory Contour...

... productive, regular, and frequent allomorph is always further from the root than the less productive, regular and requent allomorph? Why is ME often accompanied by morphemes out of the expected order? Why is ME relatively rare? Given the principles of principles of biuniqueness, economy, and iconicity...