Short vs Long Stem Alternations in Romance Verbal Inflection: The S‐Morphome

IF 0.3 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI:10.1111/1467-968x.12271

Borja Herce, Chundra A. Cathcart

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Abstract

Abstract Some verbs in Romance (e.g. the reflexes of faciō ‘do’, dīcō ‘say’, habeō ‘have’, sapiō ‘know’, possum ‘be able’, and volō ‘want’) display alternations between a short (e.g. It. f‐are , f‐a , d‐ire ) and a long (e.g. It. fac‐evo , dic‐e , dic‐evo ) stem. This paper contains an exploration of the lexical and paradigmatic distribution of these stem alternations across Romance varieties to trace when they emerged, how and why. The results suggest a comparatively early emergence as a result of the interaction between preexisting morphological predictability relations within the paradigm and an evolutionary preference for shorter forms in high‐frequency word forms and lexemes.

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浪漫语词形变化的长短词干变化:S - Morphome

罗曼语中的一些动词(如facihi ' do '， d ' say '， habehi ' have '， sapihi ' know '， possum ' be able '和voli ' want ')在一个短词(如It。f - are, f - a, d - ire)和一个长(例如It。face - evo, dic - e, dic - evo)系统。本文探讨了这些词干交替在罗曼语变体中的词汇和范式分布，以追踪它们出现的时间、方式和原因。结果表明，由于范式中预先存在的形态可预测性关系与高频词形和词素中对较短形式的进化偏好之间的相互作用，相对较早出现。

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期刊介绍： Transactions of the Philological Society continues the earlier Proceedings (1852-53), and is the oldest scholarly periodical devoted to the general study of language and languages that has an unbroken tradition. Transactions reflects a wide range of linguistic interest and contains articles on a diversity of topics: among those published in recent years have been papers on phonology, Romance linguistics, generative grammar, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, Indo-European philology and the history of English.