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In:Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Miriam Bouzouita, Ioanna Sitaridou and Enrique Pato
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 16] 2018
► pp. 13–46

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Chapter 2
Velar allomorphy in Ibero-Romance

Roots, endings and clashes of morphomes

 | University of Sheffield
Published online: 17 July 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.16.02one
Abstract
This article analyses the historical development of velar allomorphy in the Ibero-Romance verb and argues that the recognition of (i) autonomous morphological structures, or morphomes (Aronoff, 1994), and (ii) variation as to the morphological parsing of velar allomorphy can facilitate more convincing explanations of the evolution, spread and change of this allomorphy and the class of velar verbs which exhibit it. With regards morphomes, this study presents data, which prompts the conclusion that the allomorphy in these cells tends not only to converge upon one particular phonological form (Maiden, 2004), but also upon a particular morphological structure or type. Regarding the morphological parsing of the allomorphy, it is argued that it can correspond to root allomorphy or desinential allomorphy.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Brief explanation as to the origin of velar allomorphy in Ibero-Romance
  • 3.Velar allomorphy in Old Spanish: A purely morphological/morphomic account based on allomorphic endings
  • 4.Evidence for the velar element being morphologically parsed as belonging to the inflectional endings in Old Spanish but then possibly part of the root in Modern Spanish
  • 5.The N-pattern morphome
  • 6.The clash of the morphomes
    • 6.1The creation of the L>>N-pattern
  • 7.Conclusions and implications
    • 7.1Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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