Why Czech Case Markers Sometimes Get Lost

Authors

ZIKOVÁ Markéta KARLÍK Petr DOČEKAL Mojmír ZMRZLÍKOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Czech in Generative Grammar
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords Czech; case markers; paradigm stavení; CVCV phonology
Description I discuss the relationship between the phonological structure of vowel final nominal stems in Czech and the phonological structure of their inflectional forms. Following the CVCV model of Scheer (2004), I assume (i) the existence of final empty Nuclei, and (ii) the fact that the vowel of vowel initial case markers is a floating melody. I show that on these assumptions the morphologically irregular nonrealization of vowel initial case markers in a specific neuter paradigm follows from its phonological properties.

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