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The paper addresses the length variation of the causative and the reciprocal prefixes in Berber. It also deals with sibilant harmony and labial dissimilation. Templatic competition, discussed therein refers to the cooccurrence restrictions the causative and the reciprocal prefixes undergo with the imperfective marker
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The paper helps understanding word formation processes in Berber, providing a representational solution at the interface between phonology and morphosyntax to various morphophonological issues which strict phonological analyses fail to explain.
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This page is a summary of: The left edge of the word in the Berber derivational morphology, Glossa a journal of general linguistics, January 2018, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.250.
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