Morphological autonomy and the long-term vitality of morphomes
Stem-final consonant loss in Romance verbs and paradigmatic analogy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4872314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Borja Herce (0000-0002-9493-6656, University of Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-187 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Morphology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1871-5621 • E-ISSN: 1871-5656 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11525-023-09406-7 |
| OpenAlex | W4362581869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 53 |
Morphologists of different backgrounds disagree with respect to the degree of autonomy of the morphological component of language from syntax and semantics. A precise and objective quantification of the diachronic productivity of Romance morphomes is the piece of evidence most crucially missing from this debate. On the basis of 502 morphophonological innovations associated with the loss of stem-final consonants across 63 Romance varieties, this paper quantifies the degree of productivity of different morphomes (the N pattern is found to be the most productive one) and of morphomic templates generally (15% of novel stem alternations are found to abide by them). Although a strong attraction effect is detectable for morphomes, the numbers suggest that the morphological autonomy and longevity of stem alternations in the family might have been somewhat overstated. For an optimal account of the morphological innovations observed, reference to inherited morphomic structure, semantic structure, and to frequency of use are needed in similar proportions
Analogy · Art · Autonomy · Biology · Comparative linguistics · Consonant · Linguistics · Literature · Philology · Romance · Sociology · Syntax · Variation (astronomy · Vitality · Vowel · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Historical Linguistics and Language Change
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
Parts and wholes
Spanische Verbalflexion
The Handbook of Phonological Theory
Historical Morphology
Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations
New Techniques and Old Corpora
Meta-morphomic patterns in North Germanic
The Latin ‘third stem’ and its Romance descendants
Morphomes and predictability in the history of Romance perfects
What predicts productivity? Theory meets individuals
The Distribution of Prevocalic Vowels
Morphology by Itself
How to do things with junk
Stem alternations in Kiranti and their implications for the morphology–phonology interface
Morphome death and transfiguration in the history of French
Irregularity as a determinant of morphological change
From Usage to Grammar
The Typological Diversity of Morphomes
Features, Syntax, and Categories in the Latin Perfect
Autonomous morphology and extramorphological coherence
Morphome interactions
Splits, internal and external, as a window into the nature of features
Hiatus Resolution in Spanish
Morphosyntactic complexity
Paradigmatic restructuring and the diachrony of stem alternations in Chichimec
Paradigmatic Resistance to Sound Change
Inflection Classes, Gender, and the Principle of Contrast
Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology
Vowel Elision in Hiatus Contexts
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |