Title: Three issues of Romance morphology /
Authors: Goldbach, Maria.
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Romance languages Morphology.
Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; List of tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Structure, distribution, and origin of modern European Portuguese and Spanish event nominalizationsin {-ção/-ción} and {-mento/-miento} with class II and IV verb bases; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 General description; 2.3 Modern Ibero-Romance {-mento/-miento} / {-ção/-ción/-ción} formations and their relation to Latin {-mentum} and {-tio} nouns; 2.4 The assessment and role of allomorphy; 2.5 The role of blocking and productivity; 2.6 Conclusion; 3. Conjugation classes in Portuguese and other Romance languages: a morphome?; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Latin conjugation classes3.3 Conjugation classes in Romance and in Portuguese; 3.4 Final remarks; 4. Syncretism at the interface? A diachronic analysis of syncretism in Italo- and Gallo-Romance; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Discussion; 4.3 Central issue; 4.4 Syncretisms in medieval Sicilian and medieval Ligurian-Piemontese; 4.5 Interim result; 4.6 Appendix: Heuristics; 5. Conclusion; 6. References; Index.