Templatic competition, gender and construct state markers in Berber

What is it about?

This articles accounts for the cooccurrence restrictions that feminine and construct state markers display in Berber. It is argued that these markers compete for the same templatic position, leading to cases where only the gender marker surfaces.

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Why is it important?

Templatic competition is proposed as a new constraint on the distribution of gender and construct state markers. This challenges standard morphosyntactic approaches to construct state and case marking in Berber.