Introducing allofixes: Competitive suffixes in Greek derivation

The main aim of this study is to identify competitive suffixes that do not appear in the same morpho-phonological environment. For these pairs, the term allofix is introduced. Allofixes are different entries in the morpheme lexicon, with different phonological shapes and properties with similar semantic properties, and they appear in different morphological environments, mainly because of phono-morphological constraints. Following these constraints, such as the blocking one, we will expand the analysis and explanations for allofix presence on phono-morpho-semantic grounds, taking some ideas from the properties of allomorphy into consideration.