Descending diphthongs and the regular preterite in Hispano-Romance

Craddock, Jerry R

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“…verbal suffixes become more like 1st conj. Craddock (1983), for instance, suggests convincingly that the irregular "strong" preterits such as UENIT extracted an unstressed ending /-ut/ from Hispano-Romance preterits such as /kantäut/, /impleut/, and /partiut/, yielding */venut/, the forerunner of OSp. First conjugation suffixes, in fact, have generally remained distinct from those of the 2nd and 3rd conj., with the exception of the future and conditional, which are comprised of the infinitive plus an inflected form (present and imperfect tenses respectively) of HABERE.…”

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The Vocalic Formation of the Spanish Verbal Suffixes -áis/-ás, -éis/-és, -ís, -ois/-os: A Case of Phonological or Morphological Change?

Rini¹

1996

Iberoromania

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JOEL RINIThe Vocalic Formation of the Spanish Verbal Suffixes -ais/-as, -eis/-es, -is, -ois/-os\ A Case of Phonological or Morphological Change?It is probably safe to say that any given language offers specialists of the history of that language at least one example of a change which is not easily discernable as being either a case of straightforward sound change, or of a sound change which has been affected or guided by (and in some cases, even actuated by) some morphological factor ΌΓ factors. The case of the vocalic formation after the loss of the intervocalic dental consonant of the Old Spanish second person verbal suffixes -odes, -edes, -ides, (and -odes of sodes), is one example which presents such difficulties. It is well known that the loss of /-d-/ from the Old Spanish second person verbal suffixes -ades, -edes, -ides, and -odes resulted in a dual development in the 1st and 2nd conjugations, i.e. -odes > -ais/-as, -edes > -eis/-es, -odes > -ois/-os, while -ides yielded -is only. It is also well known that, eventually, diphthongal -ais,.-eis, and -ois came to function solely as the second person plural in Standard Castilian (e.g. vosotros hablais, vosotros comeis, vosotros sois), and that monophthongal -as, -es, and -os function only as singulars in some voseante regions of America (e. g. vos hablas, vos comes, vos sos) 1 . While issues surrounding the loss of /-d-/ have received considerable attention from Hispanists in recent years (cf. Blaylock 1986, Dworkin 1988a, 1988b, to date, there is no general consensus among Romance scholars as to how the vocalic development of these verbal suffixes unfolded, especially as regards the formation of diphthongal -eis and monophthongal -as, -os, -os,. and -is.The lack of a consensus regarding the vocalic shaping of these verbal suffixes can be observed in the most recent and authoritative historical grammarsThe suffixes -as, -έε, and -os are those which are considered to be the "standard" voseo forms of the 1st and 2nd conjugations, found primarily in Argentina (though also found in Colombia and parts of Mexico and Central America). Other variants such as -ai, -ei, -oi (and even -is for second conjugation -es) however, have been recorded in other Latin American countries. For a good description, see P ez Urdaneta (1981: 71-110).

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The Vocalic Formation of the Spanish Verbal Suffixes -áis/-ás, -éis/-és, -ís, -ois/-os: A Case of Phonological or Morphological Change?

Rini¹

1996

Iberoromania

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“…The deletion of the onset and nucleus of the penultimate syllable corresponds exactly to the deletion of the present perfect marker -ui-/ uein the regular paradigms, here illustrated with the forms of the fi rst conjugation: The fi rst and third singular forms presuppose a different pattern of deletion: (Craddock 1983) that the emergence of the type /kantáwt/, along with its counterparts in the second and third conjugations, i.e., /impléwt/ and /partíwt/, led to the identifi cation of the sequence /wt/ as the marker of the third singular preterite, which was then extended to the third singular preterite of irregular verbs in certain varieties of Hispano-Romance, e.g., uēnit Ͼ / wénut/ Ͼ OSp. veno (Ͼ vino), OPtg.…”

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