Abstract
Minimalist Morphology predicts that allomorphy is conditioned inward and locally, and that the domains of morphosyntactically and phonologically conditioned allomorphy selection are identical. Amy Rose Deal and Matthew Wolf have put forward two cases of allomorphy in Nez Perce that appear to be conditioned by an outward phonological context. I present an analysis of Nez Perce morphology and phonology which supports the conclusion that the first case is not outward-conditioned, and the second case is not allomorphy but phonology.
Acknowledgments
My thanks to Amy Rose Deal and to two referees for their very useful comments on an early draft, which both forced and enabled me to sharpen the argumentation, turning it into an entirely new paper. This work is greatly indebted to the thorough documentation and analysis of Nez Perce by Haruo Aoki and Harold Crook. Thanks also to Chris Golston for queries and corrections to the final version.
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