The romance verb : morphomic structure and diachrony / Martin Maiden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maiden, Martin, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Verb.

Romance languages.

Romance languages--Grammar.

Physical Description:

ix, 358 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Morphomic structure and diachrony

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book is the first comprehensive comparative-historical survey of patterns of alternation in the Romance verb that persist through time but have long ceased to be conditioned by any phonological or functional determinant. It explores the status of these patterns and their persistence, self-replication, and reinforcement over time.

Contents:

2 Morphomic structures in synchrony and diachrony p. 9

2.1 On the nature of morphomes and morphomic structures p. 9

2.2 The value of diachrony and methods of diachronic diagnosis of 'morphology by itself' p. 10

2.3 The problem of the morphome and the diagnosis of morphomic patterning p. 17

2.4 The object of enquiry p. 19

2.5 Is autonomy isolation? p. 22

2.6 A perspective on morphomic structures p. 24

3 The Romance languages and the Romance verb p. 25

3.1 The Romance languages: a brief overview p. 25

3.2 Sources of data and methods of analysis p. 28

3.3 The structure of the Romance verb system and its Latin antecedents p. 29

4 PYTA and the remnants of the Latin perfective: Emergence of a morphomic pattern through loss of shared function p. 44

4.1 Forms and functions p. 44

4.2 Replications of PYTA p. 48

4.2.1 Coherent change in the PYTA cells p. 50

4.2.2 Avoidance of allomorphy in the PYTA cells p. 53

4.2.3 Defectiveness and suppletion in PYTA p. 53

4.2.4 Heteroclisis and PYTA in Romanian p. 55

4.2.5 PYTA and syncretism p. 58

4.2.6 Person and number endings and the PYTA domain p. 60

4.2.7 Convergence and PYTA roots p. 62

4.2.8 Reactions to lack of convergence p. 67

4.3 Sporadic counterexamples to coherence in PYTA p. 71

4.4 Systematic apparent counterexamples to coherence in Italo-Romance, Aromanian, and Aragonese p. 73

4.5 Extramorphological motivation of the PYTA morphomic pattern? p. 80

5 The L-pattern and the U-pattern: A phonologically created morphomic pattern p. 84

5.1 Origins and nature of the L-pattern and U-pattern p. 84

5.2 Independence from phonological or functional conditioning p. 91

5.3 Replications of me L/U-pattern p. 91

5.4 Coherence and convergence in the history of the L/U-pattern p. 93

5.5 Occasional counterexamples to coherence in the history of the L/U-pattern, and their significance p. 122

5.6 Systematic loss of coherence in Gallo-Romance: alignment with present subjunctive p. 141

5.7 On the role of phonological conditioning in the L/U-pattern: the evidence from incoherence in Daco-Romance and elsewhere p. 148

6 The N-pattern: Another phonologically created morphomic pattern p. 167

6.1 Phonological causes of the N-pattern p. 167

6.2 Replications of the N-pattern p. 174

6.2.1 The augment p. 175

6.2.2 The verb 'go' and other cases of N-pattern suppletion p. 192

6.2.3 N-pattern blending p. 209

6.2.4 N-pattern suppletion and the reflexes of DEBERE p. 212

6.2.5 N-pattern defectiveness p. 215

6.2.6 N-pattern distribution of periphrastic structures p. 219

6.2.7 N-pattern heteroclisis p. 220

6.2.8 Other manifestations of the N-pattern p. 225

6.2.9 Negative evidence from Sardinian? p. 227

6.3 What motivates the replication of the N-pattern? p. 229

6.3.1 Markedness p. 229

6.3.2 Differentiation of the first- and second-person plural p. 230

6.3.3 The special status of the verb 'go' p. 231

6.3.4 Phonological causation of the N-pattern? The role of stress p. 233

6.3.5 The problem of N-pattern alternants outside the N-paltern cells p. 241

7 The Latin third stem and its survival in Romance p. 247

7.1 Approaches to the Latin third stem p. 247

7.2 The Romance past participle p. 252

7.3 The Romanian supine and past participle p. 256

7.4 The continuants of the third stern and derivational morphology p. 260

8 The western Romance future and conditional p. 263

8.1 The Romance synthetic future and conditional p. 263

8.2 Is there a future/conditional morphomic pattern? p. 266

9 Root allomorphy and conjugation class p. 273

9.1 Conjugation-class membership and the L-pattern p. 273

9.2 Excursus: the Romance first conjugation and the absence of root allomorphy p. 277

10 New morphomic patterns from old p. 284

10.1 Typology: phonological deformation, clash, contraction, and coalescence p. 284

10.2 Phonological deformation p. 284

10.3 Clash p. 288

10.4 Contraction (and expansion) p. 289

10.5 Coalescence p. 292

11 Morphomic patterns, suppletion, and the Romance morphological landscape p. 296

11.1 Lexical suppletion in the Romance verb p. 296

11.2 Lexical suppletion in the noun and adjective p. 297

11.3 The conditions for lexical suppletion p. 300

12 Origins, substance, and persistence of Romance morphomic patterns p. 301

12.1 The origins of morphomic structures p. 301

12.2 The substance of morphomic structures p. 302

12.3 Morphological autonomy and extramorphological conditioning p. 306

12.4 The diachronic persistence of morphomic structures p. 310

12.4.1 Unity of meaning p. 310

12.4.2 The relation between the persistence of morphomic patterns and predictability p. 314.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-349) and index.

ISBN:

9780199660216

0199660212

OCLC:

995044060