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In:Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest
Edited by Alexandru Nicolae and Adina Dragomirescu
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 355] 2021
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Cyclicity without containment in Romanian perfects

 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Published online: 1 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.355.16ste
Abstract
The Romanian perfect exhibits a form of directional paradigm uniformity: verbal perfect forms adopt the stress and segmental characteristics of the perfect participle. An analysis of this pattern of paradigmatic identity is proposed, which has broader implications for the theory of the phonological cycle.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Romanian perfects
  • 3.The stress system outside the perfect
  • 4.Perfect correspondence: Accentual evidence
  • 5.Alternatives
  • 6.Containment and the Romanian perfect
    • 6.1Classes of strong perfects and perfect exponents
    • 6.2Perfect correspondence
    • 6.3Excursus: Perfect-infinitive correspondence
  • 7.Base Priority in the perfect and its source
  • Notes
  • References
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