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Two Kinds of Blocking

This paper argues for the existence of two types of blocking, both of which can take place across linear positions in a word. One is disjunctive blocking, which is blocking by the Paninian principle of disjunctivity. By this principle, realization of a set of syntactic features by one affix blocks the insertion of a less specific affix to realize the same set of features. I will argue that disjunctive blocking necessarily makes reference to realization of syntactic features, counter to the predictions of Anderson (1986, 1992). The other type of blocking is what I will call nondisjunctive blocking. Certain theories, such as Anderson’s (1992) A-Morphous Morphology, disallow nondisjunctive blocking across linear positions in a word. I will argue that certain instances of blocking cannot be explained either as disjunctive blocking or as nondisjunctive blocking within a single linear position, but require nondisjunctive blocking across linear positions.