In:Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation
Edited by Sara Fernández Cuenca, Tiffany Judy and Lauren Miller
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 38] 2023
► pp. 82–105
Chapter 4Derived verbs and future-conditional stem regularization in
written Spanish
in synchrony and diachrony
Published online: 7 June 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.38.04gra
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.38.04gra
Abstract
Spanish verbs derived via prefixation
prescriptively retain the morphological complexity of their root
verbs. However, some verbs derived from decir and
hacer show allomorphic variation in the future
and conditional, which is documented by the RAE for
decir but not at all for
hacer. The results of this study of historical
variation suggest decreased morphological transparency of some verbs
but not of others. Verbs derived from hacer
continue to resist regularization, with the notable exception of
satisfacer. The set of
decir-derived verbs is much more complex in its
tendencies. This may be attributable to either (a) perceived opacity
of contradecir or (b) increased analogical pressure
from maldecir and bendecir which
are completely regularized in modern usage. The presence of
regularized bendecir and its possible effects on
etymologically related verbs contrasts with the resistance of
regularization of hacer-derived verbs and the
consequent absence of analogical pressure.
Keywords: Spanish, future, conditional, regularization, variation
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background: Previous studies and Romance counterparts
- 2.1Previous studies of dialectal verb regularization
- 2.2Future and conditional morphology in languages neighboring Spanish
- 3.The current study: Methodology
- 3.1Historical survey
- 3.2Study of contemporary language use: Methodology and hypotheses
- 3.2.1Irregularity versus regularization
- 3.2.2Style of writing
- 3.2.3Specific derivative
- 3.2.4Root verb
- 3.2.5Tense of verb
- 4.Results
- 4.1Results according to text source
- 4.2Overall results according to verb
- 4.3Overall results according to tense
- 4.4Overall results according to derivative
- 4.4.1Derivatives of decir
- 4.4.2Derivatives of hacer
- 5.Discussion: Diachronic changes and synchronic variability
- 5.1On the resistance of hacer-derived verbs: Transparency effects
- 5.2On the variability of decir-derived verbs: Analogical pressure
- 6.Conclusions and directions for future studies
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