Intrusion as Template Satisfaction and the QaTaT – QaTa Problem in Semitic

The squib focuses on the realization strategies of the final C-slot of templates hosting /j/-final roots in Hebrew and Amharic. Two of these strategies, nonrealization and realization through templatic intrusion, are motivated by the principle *Misalignment. The latter strategy occurs only in nouns, because it employs a suffix marking noncontextual grammatical gender.