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ROA 642-0204

Dialectal variation in Norwegian imperatives

Curt Rice <curt.rice at hum.uit.no>

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Abstract:
The formation of imperatives in Norwegian shows interesting
interaction
between phonology and morphology. Some verbs have a structure
which
results in phonologically ill-formed imperatives when the
standard strategy
for imperative formation is followed. In this paper, I illustrate
this situation
and outline a range of strategies which speakers employ
to solve the
problem. An optimality-theoretic analysis of these strategies
is given,
showing that some of the strategies are strictly phonological,
while others
show influence from the structure of the infinitive in the
same paradigm.

Comments: Appears in Nordlyd 31.2:372-384, 2003, Edited by Anne Dahl, Kristine Bentzen and Peter Svenonius
Keywords: Norwegian, paradigm uniformity, MParse, null Parse, null output
Areas: Phonology
Type: Manuscript

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