"Morphological opacity does not exist, because purely morphological rules do not exist; all so-called morphological rules are either syntactic, phonological, or a combination of the two." Discuss.

Suggested readings (same as for lecture)

• Bierwisch, Syntactic features in morphology (pdf)

• Di Sciullo, Morphological phases (pdf)

• Dillon, Metaphony as morpheme realization, not vowel harmony (pdf)

• Green 2004, Opacity in Tiberian Hebrew: Morphology, not phonology (pdf)

• Kiparsky, The morphology of the Basque auxiliary (pdf)

• Kurisu, Double morphemic exponence as morphological opacity (pdf)

• Pescarini, Prosodic restructuring and morphological opacity (pdf)