ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a level-ordered analysis of nouns and post-positions in Sekani. It illustrates the fact that lexicon of Sekani apparently contains stems which are not assigned to a lexical category. The chapter illustrates compounding and the possessive and oblique object prefixes. The properties of nouns and postpositions thus apparently support the proposals of Aronoff and Sridhar and Sproat that there are universally two domains of lexical phonological rule application, and these domains are not ordered with respect to each other. Many stems in Sekani can be inflected with either nominal or verbal morphology. Nouns may be derived from any of the major lexical categories--noun, verb or postposition — through a nominalizing process which the author hypothesizes to be a level 5 process. The domain of Nasalization suggests that the nominalizing suffixes are added on level 5. The fact that nasal vowels occur instead of nasal consonants suggests that the nominalizing suffixes belong to a non-initial level of the lexicon.
