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"This text presents a detailed examination of the most important arguments for a process-based theory of morpology, and offers a highly constrained alternative to the powerful mechanisms proposed in processual theories of morphology. Data is presented from dozens of different languages from numerous language families around the world, much of it new to the linguistic forum. The importance of prosodic morphology in the analysis of linguistic phenomena is highlighted and the need for greater constraints on generative power is examined. This work addresses some of the thorniest problems in morphological theory in an alternative fashion, including the issues of ablaut, exchange rules, metathesis, reduplication and subtraction, and presents reanalyses based on moraic morphology and the traditional notion of ""combination"" of morphemes along with the underlying theme of constraining the grammar of natural language to the utmost."

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