On the Phonological System of Japanese Inflections
On the Phonological System of Japanese Inflections
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论日语声调变化的音系系统
DOI:
10.11435/gengo1939.1982.83
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1982
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通讯作者:
Norio Fujiyoshi
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作者:
Norio Fujiyoshi
1. What criterion could be postulated for determining the canonical form of a lexical entry, if it occurs in a variety of phonological forms in the surface representation? For instance, the Japanese verbs iku "go" and kiru "wear" end in such phonological alternants as itali cized in the following paradigm. (1) ika-nai, iki-masu, iQ-ta, iku (Noun), ike-ba, iko-u ki-nai, ki-masu, ki-ta, kiru (Noun), kire-ba, kiro (IMP) And their respective derived nominals are iki and kiri. In the traditional phonological studies of Japanese, the assumption is widely accepted that verbal lexica: entry is the stem part of words, considering the morphological "stem" to be equivalent to the phonological "stem," namely, the invariable portion of inflecting words ; hence ik-and ki(r)-for the above verbs. This approach, which will be referred to as Stem Analysis, is untenable for determining the lexical representation of Japanese inflectional formatives. First, why are such forms ending in "pure" consonants only allowed for inflecting words like verbs and adjectives as basic forms? They are inconsistent with the general phonological pattern recognizable in Japanese words. There are no nominals ending in pure consonants in Japanese. Second, the notion "stem" is originally