Publication Date
January 1982
Journal or Book Title
Language
Abstract
An analysis of English Expletive Infixation (as in fan-fuckin-tastic) in terms of a metrical theory of prosody is presented. It is shown that the major environment for Expletive Infixation—immediately before a stressed syllable—follows from independently motivated characteristics of this theory. Further support for this metrical theory is adduced from infixation in words with dactylic stress alternation and with internal stress-neutral junctures, and from the subordination of stress in forms after infixation.
DOI
10.2307/413849
Pages
574-590
Volume
58
Issue
3
Recommended Citation
McCarthy, John J., "Prosodic structure and expletive infixation" (1982). Language. 63.
10.2307/413849
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