The Romance plural isogloss and linguistic change: A comparative study of Romance nouns

Abstract

International audienceRomance nouns show a well-known morphological isogloss. There are two groups of languages: those pluralizing by suffixing -s (such as Spanish), and those pluralizing by changing the quality of the final vowel (such as Italian). In this paper, I propose an explanation of this isogloss. More precisely, I argue that the cross-linguistic diversity within Romance depends on morpho-phonological parameters on the structure of the noun. These parameters consist of language-particular restrictions on the form of the (nominal) roots and the exponents of gender and number

Modelling ATR-FTIR Spectra of Dental Bonding Systems to Investigate Composition and Polymerisation Kinetics

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Phonological realization of morphosyntactic features

“…In line with previous work on Spanish inflection (e.g., Oltra-Massuet & Arregi 2005;Bermúdez-Otero 2013;Lampitelli 2014;Kramer 2015; see also Oltra-Massuet 1999 for Catalan) and in compliance to the analysis of the Greek nominal system we developed in Chapter 4, we postulate the presence of a theme vowel in the morphosyntactic structure. The endings -o and -a are taken to be realizations of a THEME node that is inserted postsyntactically next to the n head.…”

“…(187) Theme realization in Spanish (to be revised) With respect to the endings -e and -Ø, it has been argued that the nouns exhibiting them comprise a single inflection class and that the emergence of -e is phonologically predictable (Aronoff 1994: 67;Lampitelli 2014: 169;Kramer 2015: 239). The most elaborate analysis is provided by Lampitelli (2014), who notices that, among the nouns of this class, those whose stem ends in one of the non-plosive coronals /r, l, n, s, θ, ð/ have zero ending (188), whereas all others exhibit the ending -e. He thus concludes that this class of nouns does not require the insertion of a THEME node. Moreover, in case the root of the noun ends in a plosive or noncoronal consonant (189) or in a cluster (190), an epenthetic /e/ emerges to resolve unwarranted word-final consonants or clusters under the pressure of constraints such as The epenthesis solution can explain not only the distribution of the endings -e and -Ø in singular forms but also the generalization that all these nouns share the ending -es in the plural, e.g., pán-es, náb-es, estudiánt-es; cf.…”

The Representation of Gender and Inflectional Class in Italian: A Reply to Kučerová 2018

“…∕ iff F , and many other unattested combinations. Admittedly, this issue is by no means unique to K18's theory, but there are some recent approaches that are able to derive the possible and impossible patterns in a principled fashion (see in particular Lampitelli 2010Lampitelli , 2014. To take stock, the data in Table 3 forces us to either abandon K18's theory, or to revise it by adopting overly powerful tools that raise familiar concerns about theoretical economy and overgeneration, and arguably miss some important generalisations.…”