Claire Meul
List of John Benjamins publications in which Claire Meul is involved.
Articles
2016 How functionless is junk and how useful is exaptation? Probing the –I/ESC- morpheme Exaptation and Language Change, Norde, Muriel and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 261–285 | Article
We address the issue of the notion of linguistic functionality in relation to exaptation. Our case is the evolution of the -i/esc- morpheme from Latin to Romance. The exaptive nature of the -i/esc- morpheme used to be considered the historical linguists’ chestnut: from Latin inchoative marker, the… read more
2007 Le suffixe -ëi- dans la première conjugaison du badiot: Analyse morphophonologique Lingvisticæ Investigationes 30:2, pp. 291–316 | Article
The insertion of inflectional suffixes in the verbal paradigm is a widespread phenomenon, characteristic of Romance verbal morphology. Traditionally, there are two types of hypotheses that concern verbal amplifications: on the one hand there is a phonological explanation that relies on the… read more