The Latin ‘third stem’ and its Romance descendants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344963 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Maiden (0000-0001-6321-5138, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 492-530 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diachronica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/dia.30.4.03mai |
| OpenAlex | W2058612614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
The ‘third stem’ in the Latin verb provides one of Aronoff’s best-known illustrations of the notion of ‘morphome’: unpredictably variable in form, it is also consistently associated with an abstract and heterogeneous pattern of distribution. My perspective is diachronic, exploring the history of the third stem as it continues into Romance (especially Romanian). My findings support the ‘psychological reality’ of the morphome for successive generations of speakers, but suggest also that unity of lexical meaning is of central importance in the diachronic persistence of morphomes in general, such persistence finding an explanation, perhaps surprisingly, in universal principles of form-meaning iconicity
Art · Epistemology · Iconicity · Linguistics · Literature · Romance · Sound change · Verb · Categorization, perception, and language · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy
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Autonomous morphology and extramorphological coherence
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |