Not All Zeros Are the Same : Phonology of Zero Case Markers in Czech
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. The Second MIT Meeting 2011 |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | zero case markers; phonology; syllabic consonants; epenthesis; Czech |
| Description | This paper explores how surface identical morphemes can produce different effects on the phonological structure. I focus on zero case markers in Czech nominal declension and show that they reveal a striking phonological pattern which has gone unnoticed in the literature. I argue that the contrastive behavior of stems ending in consonant liquid clusters in Nsg and Gpl follows from their different underlying representations. |