Louise Esher
List of John Benjamins publications in which Louise Esher is involved.
2025 Dissimilatory constraints discriminate between variants in analogical change Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 110–127 | Chapter
This study presents evidence that dissimilatory constraints act as a discriminating factor in the selection of models for analogical change within inflectional paradigms. The study compares the lexical extension of root-final /ɡ/ in preterite forms in two groups of Occitan varieties: one group… read more
2022 Overlapping subjunctive forms in Gallo- and Ibero-Romance verb paradigms Revue Romane 57:1, pp. 86–115 | Article
In several varieties of Catalan, Valencian and Occitan, inflectional exponents originating in the imperfect subjunctive (reflex of Latin pluperfect subjunctive) are analogically extended into the first and second person plural present subjunctive forms, resulting in syncretism between present… read more
2016 Morphomic distribution of augments in varieties of Occitan Revue Romane 51:2, pp. 271–306 | Article
This study examines the distribution and function of ‘augments’ within modern Occitan verb paradigms. Most augments in Occitan are reflexes of the Latin ingressive infix -(Ī/Ē)SC-, as in other Romance languages; but Occitan has also developed novel inflectional formatives which display similar… read more
2015 Morphological evidence for the paradigmatic status of infinitives in French and Occitan Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, Haug, Dag T.T. (ed.), pp. 135–154 | Article
This study examines the morphological behaviour of the infinitive in French and Occitan in diachrony, finding that the infinitive and the rest of the verb paradigm exhibit differential behaviour. The infinitive is the last member of the paradigm to undergo analogical change, or undergoes an… read more
2015 Morphomes and predictability in the history of Romance perfects Diachronica 32:4, pp. 494–529 | Article
In mediaeval Gallo-Romance, due to regular sound change, the reflexes of Latin perfectum forms develop stem allomorphy linked to alternation between rhizotonic and arrhizotonic stress. Both the allomorphy and the stress alternation are subsequently eradicated. By contrast, in early Italo-Romance,… read more
2012 The morphological evolution of infinitive, future and conditional forms in Occitan Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009, Kemenade, Ans M.C. van and Nynke de Haas (eds.), pp. 317–332 | Article
In this study I investigate the extent to which the formal identity of infinitive, future stem and conditional stem persists in a number of varieties of Occitan, a Gallo-Romance language spoken in southern France, and the consequences of these developments for diachronic morphology, in particular… read more