Inflection and word formation in Romance languages / edited by Sascha Gaglia, Marc-Olivier Hinzelin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaglia, Sascha.

Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 186.

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; v. 186

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Word formation.

Romance languages.

Romance languages--Inflection.

Romance languages--Morphology.

Romance languages--Grammar, Comparative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Morphology, and in particular word formation, has always played an important role in Romance linguistics since it was introduced in Diez's comparative Romance grammar. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in inflectional morphology, and current research shows a strong interest in paradigmatic analyses. This volume brings together research exploring different areas of morphology from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. On an empirical basis, the theoretical assumption of the 'Autonomy of Morphology' is discussed critically. 'Data-driven' approaches carefully

Contents:

Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Morphological theories, the Autonomy of Morphology, and Romance data; 1. Introduction; 2. The Autonomy of Morphology; 3. Autonomous patterns in Romance inflectional morphology; 3.1 Patterns of stem alternants in the Romance verb; 3.2 Syncretism as an autonomous morphological pattern; 3.3 Case study: The neutralization of Franco provençal person prefixes; 3.4 Inflectional classes; 4. Lexical Phonology and Morphology as a non-autonomous model

5. Formal theories of inflectional morphology 5.1 Paradigm Function Morphology (PFM); 6. Autonomous morphology and word formation; 7. Summary and structure of the present volume; Bibliography; A Paradox?; 1. Emergence of the distinctive present subjunctive root; 2. Two unexpected developments; 2.1 Type A; 2.2 Type B; 3. A 'morphomic reaction'?; 4. Type B as reinforcement of autonomous morphological structure; 5. Conclusion; References; Verb morphology gone astray; 1. Introduction; 2. Syncretism patterns; 2.1 Syncretism patterns in the Western Romance languages

2.2 Syncretism patterns in occitan varieties 2.3 Syncretism patterns in francoprovençal varieties; 2.4 Syncretism patterns in oïl varieties; 2.5 Results of the gallo-romance comparison and perspectives on the nature of syncretism; 2.5.1 A typology of verb paradigms in Western Romance; 2.5.2 Assumption of a system-structuring function of syncretism; 3. Suppletion patterns; 3.1 Romance distribution patterns: a 'morphomic' structure; 3.2 Interaction of suppletion and syncretism: The verb 'to go'; 3.3 Interaction of suppletion and syncretism: The verb 'to be'

4. Summary and perspectives on language change at the interface References; The Friulian subject clitics; 1. Introduction; 2. Linguistic description; 2.1 Modern Friulian; 2.2 The use of subject pronouns in modern Friulian; 2.2.1 Realisation and non-realisation; 2.2.2 Quantitative results for (non-)realisation and methodology; 3. Analysis: Syntax, morphology, and phonology; 3.1 The syntax of scls: Synchrony and diachrony; 3.2 Syncretism and its avoidance in modern Friulian; 3.3 Non-Realisation as the result of two distinct processes; 3.4 The scl paradigms from a diachronic perspective

3.4.1 Feature-based extension 3.4.2 Morphomic analysis; 4. Summary; References; Appendix; Romance clitic pronouns in lexical paradigms; 2. The grammatical status of clitics; 3. Clitic paradigms; 3.1 Agreement features; 3.2 Features related to argument structure; 3.3 Linear arrangement features; 3.4 Paradigms for French and Italian; 3.5 Clitic clusters; 4. Mapping case features on grammatical functions; 4.1 The partitive; 4.2 Clitics with no grammatical function; 4.3 The mapping from Case to grammatical function in Italian; 4.4 Clitic paradigms in the architecture of grammar

5. Closing remarks and outlook

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613721006

9781280879692

1280879696

9789027274588

9027274584

OCLC:

797918089