Strict cyclicity and elsewhere

Abstract

This paper seeks to re-open the discussion of the status of the Strict Cycle Condition in Lexical Phonology by arguing that this constraint on cyclic rules is derivative from the Elsewhere Condition. A previous proposal to this effect (Kiparsky (1982)) had relied on poorly motivated identity rules; here, the blocking of cyclic rules in underived environments is achieved by a root → word rule instead. This rule, it is argued, is independently required for the transition from the root-based morphology of the cyclic stratum to the word-based morphology of the postcyclic stratum.