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After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult problems of Spanish historical grammar and explores the extent to which various types of morphological processes may have operated in a given change. Selected problems are examined in light of abundant textual evidence. Some include: the resistance to change of Sp. dormir ‘to sleep’, morir ‘to die’, the vocalic sequence /ee/, the reduction of the OSp. verbal suffixes -ades, -edes, -ides, -odes, and the uncertain origin of Sp. eres ‘you are’. Important notions such as the directionality of leveling, phonological vs. morphological change in the nominal and verbal paradigms, the morphological spread of sound change, and the role of morphological factors in apparent syntactic change are discussed.

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Author:   Joel Rini (University of Virginia)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   179
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9789027236852

ISBN 10:   9027236852
Pages:   187
Publication Date:   15 November 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments; 2. Preface; 3. Some Notes About the Present Book; 4. 1. Concepts of Morphological Change; 5. 20th-century Perceptions of Morphological Change in the Evolution of Spanish; 6. A Not-too-untraditional Model of Morphological Change; 7. 2. The Nature of Leveling in the Old Spanish Verbal Paradigm; 8. The Directionality of Leveling in the Old Spanish Verbal Paradigm Distillable from Resistance to Language Shift: The Case of Spanish dormir, morir (and podrir); 9. Old Spanish ove, tove, estove, andove, sope, cope > Modern Spanish hube, tuve, estuve, anduve, supe, cupe; 10. Old Spanish apercebir, percebir, recebir, escrevir, bevir > Modern Spanish apercibir, percibir, recibir, escribir, vivir: A Case of Leveling or Reanalysis?; 11. 3. Phonological or Morphological Change?; 12. The Effects of Morphology on Sound Change in the Paradigm: The /ee/ >/e/ Sound Change and Old Spanish veer; 13. The /ee/ > /ei/ Change: Sound Change or Backformation?; 14. The Voseo Imperatives: Sound Change or Morphemicization?; 15. 4. The Morphological Spread of Sound Change; 16. 5. Hidden Morphological Factors in Apparent Syntactic Change; 17. The -y of Spanish hay; 18. The Origin of Spanish eres; 19. Conclusion; 20. References; 21. Index of Subjects

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