Louise Esher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1720950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Esher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Esher |
| SIGNATURE | ESHER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4844-3153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The natural stability of autonomous morphology
Autonomous morphology, such as inflection class systems and paradigmatic distribution patterns, is widespread and diachronically resilient in natural language. Why this should be so has remained unclear given that autonomous morphology imposes learning costs, offers no clear benefit relative to its absence and could easily be removed by the analogical forces which are constantly reshaping it. Here we propose an explanation for the resilience of a…
Manuel de Linguistique Occitane
The historical development of imperfect indicative and conditional inflection in Pyrenean Romance
Even historical developments which appear opaque due to limited empirical data may prove tractable when sources of diverse types are combined. For systems of three‐way inflectional contrast among imperfect indicative forms in a geographically coherent cluster of Catalan, Aragonese and Gascon varieties (e.g. first‐conjugation [kanˈtaβam] ‘we sang’; third‐conjugation [peɾˈðeβam] ‘we lost’; fourth‐conjugation [paˈtiβam] ‘we suffered’ in the Catalan …
The intricate inflectional relationships underpinning morphological analogy
In Gévaudan varieties of Occitan (Gallo-Romance), exceptionless syncretism between preterite and imperfect subjunctive forms arises in the first and second person plural (e.g. faguessiám [faɡeˈsjɔn] ‘do. pret / ipf . sbjv .1 pl ’, faguessiatz [faɡeˈsjat] ‘do. pret / ipf . sbjv .2 pl ’). Reconstructing the historical emergence of this syncretism pattern reveals that it is crucially dependent on multiple and diverse implicational relationships of f…
Swahili verbs and the value of abstractive accounts for agglutinating inflection
Within "word-based", "paradigm-based" or "abstractive" models of inflectional systems ( Blevins 2006 , 2016 ), only full inflected wordforms are considered primitives; subword strings are treated not as distinct entities, but as abstract generalisations inferred by speakers across multiple inflected forms. These models stand in contrast to "constructive" approaches, which proceed from individual, distinct subword units to full words. An argument …
Les Prétérits nord-occitans à consonne thématique /t
Dans un sous-ensemble de parlers nord-occitans, le prétérit se caractérise par une consonne thématique /t/. Cette étude s’appuie sur des données publiées dans diverses sources (atlas linguistiques, descriptions de parlers, grammaires historiques, documents littéraires) et issues d’enquêtes de terrain, afin d’établir plus précisément l’incidence géographique de ces formes de prétérit, d’analyser leur distribution paradigmatique, et d’examiner leur…
Morphome death and transfiguration in the history of French
Maiden (e.g. 2009a) shows that treating the paradigmatic distribution of root allomorphy in Romance verbs as morphomic, in the sense of Aronoff (1994), provides a coherent explanation for the diachronic behaviour of such allomorphy. The major templates for distribution (‘metamorphomes’, Round 2015) shared by most Romance varieties are also found in early French, but are not well represented in the modern language, which has developed new metamorp…
Morphomes and predictability in the history of Romance perfects
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, existing stem allomorphy is redistributed by analogy so that, in the reflexes of Latin perfectum forms, stem alternation and stress alternation have the…
Autonomous morphology and extramorphological coherence
Morphome death and transfiguration in the history of French
Maiden (e.g. 2009a) shows that treating the paradigmatic distribution of root allomorphy in Romance verbs as morphomic, in the sense of Aronoff (1994), provides a coherent explanation for the diachronic behaviour of such allomorphy. The major templates for distribution (‘metamorphomes’, Round 2015) shared by most Romance varieties are also found in early French, but are not well represented in the modern language, which has developed new metamorp…
Autonomous morphology and extramorphological coherence
The intricate inflectional relationships underpinning morphological analogy
In Gévaudan varieties of Occitan (Gallo-Romance), exceptionless syncretism between preterite and imperfect subjunctive forms arises in the first and second person plural (e.g. faguessiám [faɡeˈsjɔn] ‘do. pret / ipf . sbjv .1 pl ’, faguessiatz [faɡeˈsjat] ‘do. pret / ipf . sbjv .2 pl ’). Reconstructing the historical emergence of this syncretism pattern reveals that it is crucially dependent on multiple and diverse implicational relationships of f…
Swahili verbs and the value of abstractive accounts for agglutinating inflection
Within "word-based", "paradigm-based" or "abstractive" models of inflectional systems ( Blevins 2006 , 2016 ), only full inflected wordforms are considered primitives; subword strings are treated not as distinct entities, but as abstract generalisations inferred by speakers across multiple inflected forms. These models stand in contrast to "constructive" approaches, which proceed from individual, distinct subword units to full words. An argument …
Autonomous morphology and extramorphological coherence
Morphomes and predictability in the history of Romance perfects
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, existing stem allomorphy is redistributed by analogy so that, in the reflexes of Latin perfectum forms, stem alternation and stress alternation have the…
Morphome death and transfiguration in the history of French
Maiden (e.g. 2009a) shows that treating the paradigmatic distribution of root allomorphy in Romance verbs as morphomic, in the sense of Aronoff (1994), provides a coherent explanation for the diachronic behaviour of such allomorphy. The major templates for distribution (‘metamorphomes’, Round 2015) shared by most Romance varieties are also found in early French, but are not well represented in the modern language, which has developed new metamorp…
Les Prétérits nord-occitans à consonne thématique /t
Dans un sous-ensemble de parlers nord-occitans, le prétérit se caractérise par une consonne thématique /t/. Cette étude s’appuie sur des données publiées dans diverses sources (atlas linguistiques, descriptions de parlers, grammaires historiques, documents littéraires) et issues d’enquêtes de terrain, afin d’établir plus précisément l’incidence géographique de ces formes de prétérit, d’analyser leur distribution paradigmatique, et d’examiner leur…
The historical development of imperfect indicative and conditional inflection in Pyrenean Romance
Even historical developments which appear opaque due to limited empirical data may prove tractable when sources of diverse types are combined. For systems of three‐way inflectional contrast among imperfect indicative forms in a geographically coherent cluster of Catalan, Aragonese and Gascon varieties (e.g. first‐conjugation [kanˈtaβam] ‘we sang’; third‐conjugation [peɾˈðeβam] ‘we lost’; fourth‐conjugation [paˈtiβam] ‘we suffered’ in the Catalan …
The intricate inflectional relationships underpinning morphological analogy
In Gévaudan varieties of Occitan (Gallo-Romance), exceptionless syncretism between preterite and imperfect subjunctive forms arises in the first and second person plural (e.g. faguessiám [faɡeˈsjɔn] ‘do. pret / ipf . sbjv .1 pl ’, faguessiatz [faɡeˈsjat] ‘do. pret / ipf . sbjv .2 pl ’). Reconstructing the historical emergence of this syncretism pattern reveals that it is crucially dependent on multiple and diverse implicational relationships of f…
Swahili verbs and the value of abstractive accounts for agglutinating inflection
Within "word-based", "paradigm-based" or "abstractive" models of inflectional systems ( Blevins 2006 , 2016 ), only full inflected wordforms are considered primitives; subword strings are treated not as distinct entities, but as abstract generalisations inferred by speakers across multiple inflected forms. These models stand in contrast to "constructive" approaches, which proceed from individual, distinct subword units to full words. An argument …
Manuel de Linguistique Occitane
The natural stability of autonomous morphology
Autonomous morphology, such as inflection class systems and paradigmatic distribution patterns, is widespread and diachronically resilient in natural language. Why this should be so has remained unclear given that autonomous morphology imposes learning costs, offers no clear benefit relative to its absence and could easily be removed by the analogical forces which are constantly reshaping it. Here we propose an explanation for the resilience of a…
Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Inflection (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Literature (3 works)