ABSTRACT
Several word-final affixes which never surface with a final vowel nonetheless affect the stress pattern of the base to which they attach just as if they were subject to Final Vowel Deletion. The second person singular Imperative ending -n is a typical example. Imperatives formed with this suffix always have final low-pitched stress. Moreover, their other stressed syllables are shifted to the right with respect to the pattern that we would expect on the basis of the surface segmental forms. The imperative suffix -n contrasts with the word-final variant of the Subordinative ending /-n/ ~ /-ne/ in this respect, as we can see by comparing the Subordinative form in (36a) with the Imperative in (36b).
