ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on to the Word Formation Rule (WFR) of REDUPLICATION (REDUP) in the various dialects of Dakota and to investigate the form and relative ordering of the various phonological rules that affect reduplicated forms. It discusses the theoretical implications of the proposed analysis to various hypotheses regarding the place and function of a morphological component and universal constraints on phonological rule ordering. The major REDUP process to be considered is that which applies to verbal roots. In such cases, REDUP has one of a number of possible morphological functions. Virtually all Siouanists agree in their treatment of REDUP on the class of V-final stems. Since REDUP is a morphological WFR, whereas STEM FORM is a phonological rule of epenthesis, this ordering is consistent with the hypothesis that all morphological rules precede phonological rules.
