Syncretism of plural forms in Spanish Dialects

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20344351
AutoresM Mare (0000-0002-9250-2467, Centro Científico Tecnológico Patagónico, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen38
Número2
Páginas289-314
Fecha de publicación2021-06-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Linguistic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/tlr-2021-2066
OpenAlexW3153054815
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas16

One of the main discussions about the interaction between morphology and syntax revolves around the richness or poverty of features and wherever this richness/poverty is found either in the syntactic structure or the lexical items. A phenomenon subject to this debate has been syncretism, especially in theories that assume late insertion such as Distributed Morphology. This paper delves into the syncretism observed between the first person plural and the third person in the clitic domain in some Spanish dialects. Our analysis will lead to a revision of the distribution of person features and their relationship with plural number, while at the same time it will shed light on other morphological alternations displayed in Spanish dialects; that is, subject-verb unagreement and mesoclisis in imperatives. In order to explain the behavior of the data under discussion, I propose that lexical items are specified for all the relevant features at the moment of insertion, although the values of these features can be neutralized. I argue that the distribution proposed allows for some fundamental generalizations about the vocabulary inventories in Spanish varieties, and shows that the variation pattern exhibits an *ABA effect, i.e., only contiguous cells in a paradigm are syncretic

Affix · Clitic · Epistemology · Linguistics · Noun · Phenomenon · Plural · Sociology · Syntax · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation