In:Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 252] 2018
► pp. 215–222
Chapter 14Clitics and vowel epenthesis
A case study
Published online: 19 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.252.14gar
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.252.14gar
Syncope and epenthesis have been treated as two closely related phenomena in traditional accounts: what syncope destroys, epenthesis restores. In this paper we present some cases of vowel epenthesis in the verbal domain in some Northern Emilian varieties where both syncope and epenthesis are rather restricted. It will be shown that apparently free alternations in some arhizotonic forms, like lizì vs. alzì ‘you.pl read’, are to be considered as the result of two different grammars. Only in one of these there is allomorphy of verb stems triggered by the interaction of morphosyntactic configurations, and morphophonological and phonotactic constraints.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Syncope and epenthesis in Luzzara, Carpi and Rolo
- 3.Discussion
- 4.Conclusions
Acknowledgments Notes References
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