Morphological Autonomy Perspectives From Romance Inflectional Morphology

by Maiden, Martin; Smith, John Charles; Goldbach, Maria; Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier

• ISBN13: 9780199589982
• ISBN10: 0199589984
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the structure of grammar. Drawing on a wide range of aspects of Romance inflectional morphology, leading scholars present detailed arguments for the autonomy of morphology, ie morphology has phenomena and mechanisms of its own that are not reducible to syntax or phonology. But which principles and rules govern this independent component and which phenomena can be described or explicated by the mechanisms of the morphemiclevel? In shedding light on these questions, this volume constitutes a major contribution to Romance historical morphology in particular, and to our understanding of the nature and importance of morphomic structure in language change in general.

Author Biography

Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford, the Director of the Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Trinity College at Oxford. His main research interests are historical and comparative linguistics of the Romance Languages, especially Romanian and Italo-Romance linguistics, and morphological theory.

John Charles Smith has been Fellow and Tutor in French Linguistics at St Catherine's College since 1997. Before returning to Oxford, where he was an undergraduate and graduate student, he held appointments at the Universities of Surrey, Bath, and Manchester. He has also held visiting appointments in Paris, Limoges, Berlin, Melbourne, and Philadelphia. His main field of interest is historical morphosyntax, and he has published widely on agreement, refunctionalization, deixis, and the evolution of case and pronoun systems, with particular reference to Romance, although he has also worked on other language families, including Germanic and Austronesian. He is Secretary of the International Society for Historical Linguistics, Deputy Director of the University of Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, and co-editor of the Cambridge History of the Romance Languages. In 2007, he was created chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes academiques by the French Government, for services to the French language and French culture.

Maria Goldbach studied linguistics of the Romance languages at the Universities of Aix-en-Provence and Hamburg. She was assistant professor for the linguistics of Romance languages at the University of Hamburg. Currently, she is a research assistant at the University of Oxford in the research project "Autonomous Morphology in Diachrony: Comparative evidence from the Romance languages."

Marc-Olivier Hinzelin studied Romance and General Linguistics in Hamburg and Lyon 2. He worked as a Research Assistant in Hamburg and Konstanz as well as in the research project "Autonomous Morphology in Diachrony: Comparative evidence from Romance Languages" in Oxford. He is now Maitre de Conferences at the Institut de Linguistique Romane Pierre Gardette at the Universite Catholique de Lyon.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1: Autonomous Morphology - Corroborations and Challenges
1. Stress-Conditioned Allomorphy in Surmiran (Rumantsch), Stephen R. Anderson
2. Morphomes and 'Stress-Conditioned Allomorphy' in Romanh, Martin Maiden
3. Accentual Patterns in Romance Verb Forms, Judith Meinschaefer
4. Morphomes, Morphemes, and Morphological Segmentation: Evidence From Ibero-Romance, Paul O'Neill
5. Representational Aspects of Morphomic Vowel variation in Southern Italy, Sascha Gaglia
6. The Romance Imperative, Irregular Morphology, Syncretism, and the Morphome, Andrew Swearingen
7. Learning Paradigms in Time and Space. Computational Evidence From Romance Languages, Vito Pirrelli, Marcello Ferro, and Basilio Calderone
8. Conjugations and Complex Stems in Spanish Verbs: Generalization Properties and Priming Effects, Rafael Linares
Part 2: Evolution of Stem Allomorphy
9. The Evolution of a Morphome in Catalan Verb Inflection, Max Wheeler
10. Metaphony in Portuguese 3rd Class -o(C)C-ir and -u(C)C-ir Verbs - Comparison With Modern Galician and Mediaeval Galician-Portuguese, Maria Goldbach
11. Morphomic Structure and Loan-Verb Integration: Evidence From Lusophone Creoles, Ana R. Luis
Part 3: Interfaces With Syntax or Semantics?
12. A Realization Optimality-Theoretic Approach to Full and Partial Identity of Forms, Xu, Zheng and mark Aronoff
13. Syncretism and Suppletion in Gallo-Romance Verb Paradigms, Marc-Olivier Hinzelin
14. Variable Analyses of a Verbal Inflection in (mainly) Canadian French, John Charles Smith
15. Syncretism and neutralization in the Marking of Romance Object Agreement, Michele Loporcaro
16. Overabundance (Multiple Forms Realizing the Same Cell): A Non-Canonical Phenomenon in Italian Verb Morphology, Anna M. Thornton
17. Clitics of Italian Verbi Procomplementari: What are They?, Cinzia Russi
18. Periphrasis in Romance, Catherine Taylor
19. Non-Finite Forms, Periphrases, and Autonomous Morphology in Latin and Romance, Nigel Vincent
References
Index