The Even Yearbook 14 (2020)

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volume: 14 (2020)
pages: 17–25
author: Márton Jánosy
title: Stress patterns before the -able suffix
DOI: http://doi.org/10.57133/evenyrbk.20ja
keywords: morphophonology, variable stress, stress-placement, suffixation
abstract: This paper examines the factors influencing stress-placement before the -able suffix. These include the the status of the stem (free or bound), a full (tertiary-stressed) vowel at the end of a stem, syncope, gliding, and trisyllabic shortening. Based on corpus evidence, I argue that the treatment of -able either as a categorically stress-neutral suffix or as a categorically stress-placing suffix is untenable.
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