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Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: emergence, typology, and motivations of a symbiotic relation

Herce, Borja (2022). Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: emergence, typology, and motivations of a symbiotic relation. Linguistics, 60(4):1103-1147.

Abstract

Perfective stem allomorphy and stress are morphological traits which interact in complex ways in Romance verbal inflection. This article surveys the whole range of variation of these traits across Romance varieties, typologizes the observed interactions between the two, and examines attested and unattested possibilities. A comparison between the modern-day and the original Latin systems suggests that there is a strong pan-Romance bias against having verbs with a concrete combination of properties: perfective root-stress and no perfective stem alternation. This is a combination of traits that would have frequently resulted in diagonal syncretisms between past and present given the phonological changes attested in the daughter languages. Homophony avoidance (and the adaptive-discriminative role of morphology more generally) are therefore argued to motivate the observed bias.
Keywords: change biases; diachrony; homophony; morphology; predictability; syncretism

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Department of Comparative Language Science
Special Collections > NCCR Evolving Language
Special Collections > Centers of Competence > Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
Dewey Decimal Classification:410 Linguistics
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Language and Linguistics
Social Sciences & Humanities > Linguistics and Language
Language:English
Date:26 July 2022
Deposited On:26 Oct 2021 09:38
Last Modified:26 Oct 2024 01:37
Publisher:De Gruyter
ISSN:0024-3949
OA Status:Gold
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0042
Related URLs:https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2020-0042/html
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