Herce, Borja. 2021. Stem alternations in Kiranti and their implications for the morphology-phonology interface. Journal of Linguistics 57, 2: 321-363.

Summary: this paper looks at the phonological vs morphological nature of stem alternation across 18 languages from the Kiranti family of Nepal, and at their paradigmatic distribution. It finds that phonologically conditioned stem alternations are surprisingly more *paradigmatically* stable than morphological ones. Various developments in East Kiranti suggest that phonological conditioning is one one-directional (suffixes influence the shape of the stem) but bidirectional (the shape of the stem influences which shapes suffixes can take).