caa a22 4500 475782119 CHVBK 20180406123647.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1006496821412 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1006496821412 Stem Alternants As Morphological Signata: Evidence From Blur Avoidance In Polish Nouns [Elektronische Daten] [Thea Cameron-Faulkner, Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy] At first sight, the suffixal inflection of Polish masculine nouns violates massively the No Blur Principle proposed by Carstairs-McCarthy (1994) as a constraint on inflection class proliferation but, when stem alternation is taken into account, Polish turns out to comply with the No Blur Principle perfectly - provided that characteristics of stemalternants are permitted to be constitute part of the 'smeaning' of affixes, i.e., to be morphological signata. This supports the hypothesis that affixal inflection and nonaffixal inflection are subject to different constraints, and sheds new light on how the two kinds of inflection can interact. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Cameron-Faulkner Thea E-mail: thea.cameron-faulkner@stud.man.ac.uk aut Carstairs-McCarthy Andrew E-mail: a.c-mcc@ling.canterbury.ac.nz aut Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/4(2000-11-01), 813-835 0167-806X 18:4<813 2000 18 11049 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006496821412 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006496821412 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cameron-Faulkner Thea E-mail: thea.cameron-faulkner@stud.man.ac.uk aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carstairs-McCarthy Andrew E-mail: a.c-mcc@ling.canterbury.ac.nz aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/4(2000-11-01), 813-835 0167-806X 18:4<813 2000 18 11049 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer