Non-concatenative allomorphy is generalized prosodic affixation: The case of Upriver Halkomelem

Abstract I argue that the continuative aspect in Upriver Halkomelem is marked by a morpheme consisting of a segmentally empty prosodic foot. Since there are different strategies to fill a prosodic foot with segmental material, such an analysis predicts the non-concatenative allomorphy between epenthesis, stress shift, vowel lengthening, and reduplication that we find in the continuative formation of Upriver Halkomelem. The analysis is situated in the line of research termed ‘Generalized Nonlinear Affixation’ by Bermúdez-Otero (2012) that strives to derive all instances of non-concatenative morphology without any additional assumptions simply from affixation of nonlinear phonological representations that are independently motivated.