Trente ans de psycholinguistique

Labelle, Marie

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Inflection – semantics interfaces in a typological setting: number and non-specific nominal items in Old Spanish legal codices

Nkollo¹,

Tkaczyk²

2015

Lingua Posnaniensis

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The present inquiry has been spurred by the observation of the morphological behaviour of humandenoting common nouns in Old Spanish codices (13th to 15th century). In spite of the fact that legal norms are designed to apply to an unrestricted number of potential addressees, this class of nominal items surfaces nearly exclusively in the singular, with plural forms being strongly underrepresented. A series of parameters converge to account for this form -function mismatch, thus revealing an essentially interdependent nature of linguistic mechanisms underlying it: type of inflection (inherent vs. contextual), text genre characteristics (distance pole vs proximate pole) and syntactic environment (conditional protases). The pervasiveness of the singular is traced back to non-specificity. Out of two mutually exclusive typological clines accounting for the likelihood of inflectional variation in noun morphology, Definiteness Hierarchy is given preference over degrees of animacy: non-specifically used items, even if highly ranked on animacy scale, are the least likely to surface as plural forms. Competing motivations are assumed to provide a suitable analytical framework to account for typological conflicts such as the one exemplified in Old Spanish legal codices.

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Inflection – semantics interfaces in a typological setting: number and non-specific nominal items in Old Spanish legal codices

Nkollo¹,

Tkaczyk²

2015

Lingua Posnaniensis

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Non-specificity in disguise: morphology – semantics mismatches in Old Portuguese nominal items

Nkollo

2016

Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie

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Nasal epenthesis in preverbal accusative clitic pronouns. A variationist study of present-day dialectal European Portuguese

Nkollo

2022

Empirical Approaches to Portuguese Linguistics - New Insights From Studies in Various Areas of Grammar

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The paper investigates nasal epenthesis in vowel-initial preverbal 3rd person accusative pronouns in modern dialectal European Portuguese (EP). The study is underpinned by the data retrieved from the 'verbatim transcription' section of CORDIAL-SIN, a dialectal corpus of contemporary EP. Speakers' individual attitudes towards onset insertion are analyzed in the fifteen localities where variation is found. Four grammars (prosody-syntax mappings) are singled out, depending on whether the alveolar nasal is extended on preverbal clitic pronouns only or is found in other monosyllabic clitic words (definite articles and demonstrative pronouns) as well. Analogical extensions are demonstrated to be instrumental in inducing speakers to add the onset. Moreover, the analysis points to the unsteadiness in the realization of proclisis triggers. Besides surfacing as a nasal diphthong, their last syllable frequently ends in a monophthong, its vowel quality gets altered or its vocalic nucleus denasalizes. Finally, the historical profile of this external sandhi process is approached. The change is argued to have spread from grammatically and communicatively unmarked contexts, close to orality. Rather than positing a continuous transmission of nasal epenthesis across generations, emphasis is placed on the consistency with which preverbal clitic pronouns were treated in various periods and in different communicative circumstances.

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Trente ans de psycholinguistique

Cited by 6 publications

References 94 publications

Inflection – semantics interfaces in a typological setting: number and non-specific nominal items in Old Spanish legal codices

Inflection – semantics interfaces in a typological setting: number and non-specific nominal items in Old Spanish legal codices

Non-specificity in disguise: morphology – semantics mismatches in Old Portuguese nominal items

Nasal epenthesis in preverbal accusative clitic pronouns. A variationist study of present-day dialectal European Portuguese

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