Compositional vs . Paradigmatic Approaches to Accent and Ablaut ∗ (original) (raw)

COMPOSITIONAL approaches to mobile accentuation of the Indo-European typ e derive the accent of words from the lexically specified accentual featu res of their constituent morphemes, together with the BASIC ACCENTUATION PRINCIPLE (BAP), which erases all accents but the leftmost one, and assigns an accent to the left edge of an unac ce ted domain. 1 I propose here a compositional analysis in which BAP is a phrase-level proc ess and stems default to the right by the OXYTONE RULE. I argue that zero grade ablaut is sensitive to the accents er ased by the BAP, and therefore applies before it. In agreement with most c mpositional analyses, I distinguish betweenDOMINANT and RECESSIVE derivational suffixes.2 COMPOSITIONAL approaches to mobile accentuation of the Indo-European type derive the ac c nt of words from the lexically specified accentual features of their constituent morphemes, to gether with the BASIC ACCENTUATION PRINCIPLE (BAP), which erases all accents but the leftmost one, and...