A Principled Order to Postsyntactic Operations
Karlos Arregi, Andrew Ira Nevins
April 2008 

We discuss the relative order of the operations of cliticization, dissimilation, Linearization, Vocabulary Insertion, and morphological metathesis. We demonstrate a number of crucially ordered feeding and bleeding relations - in some cases leading to opacity - among morphological operations responsible for word-formation in the Basque auxiliary complex. The results argue for a multistratal derivational theory of inflectional word formation, in which separate modules have their own well-formedness principles and repair operations, sometimes in patent contradiction to the needs of one another. Their sequenced interaction is governed by a principled division between operations sensitive to hierarchical versus linear order.

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keywords:	postsyntactic operations, modular models of morphology, basque, clitics, morphology, syntax
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