On the Status of Stems in Morphological Theory
David Embick, Morris Halle · Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory · 2005
To a first approximation, languages show two different types of morphological alternation, with ‘alternation ’ construed in a broad sense. One type is concatenative, involving what looks like the affixation of one piece to another; e.g. kick/kick-ed. Another type of alternation involves morphophonological