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The Romance Verb - Morphomic Structure and Diachrony (Hardcover)
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The Romance Verb - Morphomic Structure and Diachrony (Hardcover)
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This book is the first comprehensive comparative-historical survey
of patterns of alternation in the Romance verb which appear to be
'autonomously morphological': although they can be shown to be
persistent through time, they have long ceased to be conditioned by
any phonological or functional determinant. Some of these patterns
are well known in Romance linguistics, while others have scarcely
been noticed. The sheer range of phenomena which participate in
these patterns in any case far surpasses what Romance linguists had
previously realized. The patterns constitute a kind of abstract
'leitmotiv', running through the history of the Romance languages
and conferring on them a distinctive morphological physiognomy.
Although intended primarily as a novel contribution to
comparative-historical Romance linguistics, the book considers in
detail the status of these patterns which appear to be a matter of
'morphology by itself', unsupported by determining factors external
to the morphological system. Particular attention is paid to the
problem of their persistence, self-replication, and reinforcement
over time. Why do abstract morphological patterns that quite
literally 'do not make sense' display such diachronic robustness?
The evidence suggests that speakers, faced with different ways of
expressing semantically identical material, seek out distributional
templates into which those differences can be deployed. In Romance
the only available templates happen to be 'morphomic',
morphologically accidental, effects of old sound changes or defunct
functional conditionings. Those patterns are accordingly exploited,
and indeed reinforced, by being made maximally predictable.
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