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Irregular Morphology and Athematic Verbs in Italo-Romance

The article deals with irregularities in the morphological make-up of Italian verbal forms, focusing on perfect and past participle forms. It aims to account for root-based contextual allomorphy in the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993). Building upon the generalisation that morphological irregularities result whenever the thematic vowel is absent, the article provides a synchronic account and a diachronic analysis by means of a restricted set of morphophonological rules, thus challenging both the traditional view, according to which morphological irregularities follow from stress positioning, and paradigm-based accounts

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universitat de Girona

Author: Calabrese, Andrea
Date: 2020 February 15
Abstract: The article deals with irregularities in the morphological make-up of Italian verbal forms, focusing on perfect and past participle forms. It aims to account for root-based contextual allomorphy in the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993). Building upon the generalisation that morphological irregularities result whenever the thematic vowel is absent, the article provides a synchronic account and a diachronic analysis by means of a restricted set of morphophonological rules, thus challenging both the traditional view, according to which morphological irregularities follow from stress positioning, and paradigm-based accounts
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/372642
Language: eng
Publisher: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universitat de Girona
Rights: Attribution 3.0 Spain
Rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Subject: Llengües romàniques -- Morfologia
Romance languages -- Morphology
Gramàtica comparada i general -- Morfologia
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology
Title: Irregular Morphology and Athematic Verbs in Italo-Romance
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Repository: Recercat

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