... (8) a Hierarchy of suffixes: X-Y-Z-A-B-C-D b Possible combinations: BASE-A-B, BASE-X-A-C, BASE-Y-Z-A c Impossible combinations: *BASE-A-Z, *BASE-Y-A-Z, *BASE-X-A-Y This hypothesis has been tested ... before deverbal -age, -al, -ance, -ment and -y are verbs ending in -ify, -ize, -ate, and -en However, -ify, -ize, and -ate require (a suffix-particular allomorph of) the nominalizer -( at)ion: (5) ... levelordering Thus stress-neutral -ist appears systematically inside stress-shifting -ic (e.g Chapter 7: Modeling word-formation 220 romant-ic - romant-ic-ist), or stress-neutral -ize appears systematically...