Suppletive Allomorphy in Kurmanji is Structurally Non-Local

Abstract

We report a case of suppletive allomorphy in Kurmanji Kurdish that is sensitive to a structurally non-local context. The empirical facts in Kurmanji are evaluated from the perspective of two major views on the locality of suppletive allomorphy which respectively employ structural and linear notions of locality. The structural intervener being a prefix while the conditioning non-local context being a suffix gives us a chance to tease apart the empirical predictions of these two notions of locality in suppletive allomorphy.