Phasal strength in A'ingae classifying subordination
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
January 2024 

This paper presents and analyzes data from A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639-3: con), an understudied and endangered Amazonian isolate. I focus on inflected verbs, subordinated with nominal classifiers, where the patterns of stress and glottalization in subordinate verbs are sensitive to the prior inflection present on the verb. This violates bracket erasure, an otherwise robust empirical generalization which states that phonological grammar cannot access morphological information from previous cycles (Kiparsky, 1982). To account for the subordinator's sensitivity to the morphological structure of the inflected verb, I introduce a family of phase-indexed faithfulness constraints. Like McPherson & Heath's (2016) phase faithfulness, it allows for modeling cases where previous phonological evaluation results in greater faithfulness. The addition of indexation keeps track of the previous phase's category, allowing for faithfulness specific to particular phases.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/007821 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Proceedings of the 2023 Annual Meeting on Phonology
keywords:	dabkowski, cofán, cofan, cofane, kofane, kofán, kofan, ecuador, colombia, amazon, amazonian, amazonian, isolate, phase, cyclic, cyclicity, index, indexed, indexation, faithful, faithfulness, bracket, bracketing, erasure, violation, subordination, subordinator, nominalizer, nominalization, classifier, inflected, inflection, clausal, module, modularity, blocking, dominant, dominance, stress, glottalization, overriding, overwriting, overridden, overwritten, evaluation, functional, categorizing, distributed, morphology, syntax, phonology
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