ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on stress assignment in Carib, a Cariban language spoken in the coastal area of Guyana. With the case for cyclicity fairly well established, it describes a complexity in the data which elucidates the more subtle properties of the phonology-morphology interaction in Carib. A good test case for the theory, Carib makes use of all three of the logically possible sources of prosodic constituency provided by the theory: underlying representation, phonological rule, and the Prosodic Constituent Formation algorithm. Prefixation in Carib is both inflectional and derivational; most of the work of person-marking is performed by prefixes, and they thus show up frequently on verbs and possessed nouns. An explanation of why suffixes appear to override the stress of underived but not of derived bases is attributed to the lack of a preaffixal stem cycle in Carib. Facts from the interaction of prefixation and suffixation crucially argue that stress must be assigned cyclically.
