The role of Lowering and non-cyclic heads in Udmurt stress placement
Lena Borise, Ekaterina Georgieva
May 2023 

In this paper, we propose that stress assignment in three different types of verbs in Udmurt (indicatives, stressed on the final syllable, and negated verbs and imperatives, stressed on the initial syllable) is determined by their morphosyntactic structure, and offer an account of these facts within the Distributed Morphology framework. Specifically, we claim that the position of T, a non-cyclic/non-categorizing head, determines stress placement in Udmurt. Our analysis, therefore, provides evidence in favour of approaches that allow for non-cyclic/non-categorizing heads to determine stress placement. The Udmurt facts also show that approaches that only allow for stress placement to be determined by cyclic/categorizing heads are too restrictive. The analysis proposed here also makes correct predictions for stress placement in more complex contexts in Udmurt: those that contain clitics.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/007330 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Proceedings of NELS 53 (submitted)
keywords:	udmurt, uralic, stress, verbs, distributed morphology, lowering, morphology, syntax, phonology
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