On the origin of the absolute vs. conjunct opposition in Insular Celtic

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Indogermanische Forschungen Pub Date : 2018-08-01 DOI:10.1515/IF-2018-0011

Marco Budassi, E. Roma

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Abstract

Abstract Despite more than a century of research, the origin of the Insular Celtic double system of verbal inflection is still debated. In this paper, we defend the thesis that the set of absolute endings originated by the agglutination of a subject clitic to the verb form. This clitic marked the declarative (vs. relative) use of verbs, since its distribution was complementary to that of the relative marker *yo. The present indicative as well as the preterite (in both the absolute and conjunct inflection) of one strong verb (berid‘bring’) and one weak verb (lécid‘leave’) are reconstructed according to this theory. For compound verb forms, the clitic ~ *yoalternation can be posited as well. The cases in which the distribution of initial mutations on the verb stem after preverbs does not follow the diachronic phonological rules of Old Irish (that is, there is no lenition after preverbs originally ending in a vowel) are accounted for from a synchronic standpoint. This “anomalous” behaviour can be explained by positing that a functionally relevant (morphological) system of mutations had replaced the previous phonology-based system.

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论凯尔特岛绝对对立与联合对立的起源

摘要尽管经过一个多世纪的研究，岛凯尔特语双屈折系统的起源仍然存在争议。在这篇论文中，我们为这样一个论点辩护，即一组绝对词尾源于主词集团与动词形式的聚合。这个集团标志着动词的陈述性（vs.相对）使用，因为它的分布与相对标记*yo的分布是互补的。一个强动词（berid'bring’）和一个弱动词（lécid'leave’）的现在指示语和前词（在绝对和连词屈折中）都是根据这一理论重建的。对于复合动词形式，也可以假定为clitic~*yo交替。从共时的角度解释了preverbs后动词词干上初始突变的分布不符合古爱尔兰语的历时语音规则的情况（即preverbs最初以元音结尾后没有词尾）。这种“异常”行为可以通过假设一个功能相关的（形态）突变系统取代了以前基于音韵学的系统来解释。

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