ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an analysis of the phonological and morphological properties of the verbal prefixes in Sekani within the theoretical framework. The verbal prefixes of Sekani also yield nicely to a level-ordered analysis: the positional properties of affixes correlate strongly with the domains of phonological rules. In a traditional position-class model of the Athabaskan verb, the verbal prefixes of Sekani would be analyzed as occurring in a fairly rigid order in approximately thirteen prefix positions before the stem. The classifier prefixes are the rightmost of the verbal prefixes. In a Lexical Phonology analysis, the verbal prefixes of Sekani can be grouped into five levels. The existence of languages like Sekani which contain more than two phonological rule domains is problematic for theories which propose to limit the number of phonological rule domains universally to two, as in the word/stem models proposed by Aronoff and Sridhar and Sproat.
