The Romance reflexes of the Latin infixes -I/ESC- and -IDI-
Subtitle: restructuring and remodeling processes
By: Claire Meul
Series: Romanistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Beiheft -- 20; Romanistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart -- 20.
Publisher: Buske
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hamburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9783875486360
Subjects: Romance languages; Infixes; Latin language; Verb; Morphemics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Setting and main goals of the research ;; title: Methodological design : data, methods and outline of the book ;; title: Theoretical outline of the research;; title: Descriptive dimension : inflectional vs. derivational morphology, and the concepts of '(de)grammaticalization' and 'morphome';; title: Historical dimension : the role of analogy;; title: Comparative dimension : inter-morphological and cross-linguistic comparison from a historical perspective;; title: Sociolinguistic dimension ;; title: Terminological note : the label 'infix' --; title: Morphological structure of the verb in Latin and Late Latin / Proto-Romance transformations. -- Introduction ;; title: Synopsis of the morphological structure of the verb in Classical Latin;; title: Features of Latin verbal inflection:; title: Infectum vs. perfectum and the four-part distinction between conjugation classes:; title: Nasal infixation and its correlation with the infectum-perfectum Opposition:; title: Some remarks on the "third stem" and related theoretical issues : the past participle, the future participle and the supine:; title: Summary and flaws of the traditional description of the Latin verb System;; title: Features of Latin verbal derivation:; title: Verbal prefixation:; title: Verbal suffixation:; title: Summary and connection with derivational -I/ESC- and -IDI- ;; title: Late Latin / Proto-Romance restructurings of verbal inflection;; title: Trans-paradigmatic (conjugational) shifts and the 'merger' of conjugations II and III;; title: Fundamental 'systemic' reorganizations:; title: Replacement of inflectional endings and 'cross-conjugational syncretism':; title: Periphrastic verb forms : the future, the preterit, and the passive:; title: Elimination, reassignment, and creation of inflectional series;; title: Summary and reconsideration of -I/ESC- and -IDI- --; title: History of the infixes -I/ESC- and -IDI-. -- Introduction ;; title: Historical origins of the infix -I/ESC-;; title: Formal and semantic properties of the infix -I/ESC- in Indo-European and Latin;; title: Proto-Romance developments of the infix -I/ESC-:; title: Trans-paradigmatic shift:; title: Intra-paradigmatic restructuring and concomitant semantic bleaching ;; title: Historical origins of the infix -IDI-;; title: Formal and semantic properties of the infix -IDI- in Greek and Latin;; title: Proto-Romance developments of the infix -IDI- : functional 'split' and intra-paradigmatic reorganization ;; title: Conclusion --; title: The evolution of the infix -I/ESC- in Romance : focus on morphological configurations. -- Introduction ;; title: "Patterned" distributions of the infix;; title: The distribution of the infix at the intersection between "N-" and "L-"pattern;; title: Was there a patterned infix-distribution in Proto-Romance? ;; title: "Non-patterned" distributions of the infix;; title: The distribution of the infix in Standard French;; title: The occurrence of the infix in the future and the conditional : Corsican, Friulian, Ticinese and Lombard;; title: Further expansion of the infix : the intra-paradigmatic distribution of the infix in two Francoprovengal varieties and in Southern Italian (Lucanian) ;; title: A bridge towards the lexicon: the 'instability' of non-infixed fourth conjugation verbs ;; title: Conclusion and synthesis of the results --; title: First conjugation infixation in Romance : general findings. -- Introduction ;; title: Geo-Iinguistic spread and general lexical characteristics of Romance first conjugation infixation;; title: First conjugation infixation in Romanian:; title: Summary : general features of first conjugation infixation in Romanian;; title: First conjugation infixation in Istrian andVegliot:; title: Summary : general features of first conjugation infixation in Istrian and Vegliot;; title: First conjugation infixation in Northern Italian and Rhaeto-Romance (Dolomitic Ladin, Friulian) varieties:; title: Summary : general features of first conjugation infixation in Northern Italian and Rhaeto-Romance (Dolomitic Ladin, Friulian) varieties;; title: First conjugation infixation in Central and Southern Italian varieties:; title: Summary : general features of first conjugation infixation in Central and Southern Italian varieties;; title: First conjugation infixation in Gallo-Romance varieties:; title: Summary : general features of first conjugation infixation in Gallo-Romance varieties;; title: First conjugation infixation in Swiss Rhaeto-Romance (Romansh):; title: Summary : general features of first conjugation infixation in Swiss Rhaeto-Romance (Romansh) ;; title: Some considerations on the intra-paradigmatic constellation of the infix -IDI- and comparison with the infix -I/ESC- ;; title: Conclusion --; title: The fate of -IDI- in Dolomitic Ladin : quantitative analysis of the lexical spread of the infix. -- General introduction ;; title: Dictionary analysis of first conjugation infixation in Badiotto (Central Dolomitic Ladin); -- Introduction;; title: Results of the analysis:; title: Infixation vs. the morpho-prosodic structure of the verb root:; title: Tentative conclusions:; title: Infixation vs. etymology:; title: General conclusion : intra-linguistic 'triggers' of first conjugation infixation in Badiotto ;; title: First conjugation infixation in Dolomitic Ladin : Statistical analysis of fieldwork data; -- Introduction;; title: Methodological aspects of the research;; title: The lexical distribution of the infix in Dolomitic Ladin : some general considerations;; title: Basic quantitative results of the research;; title: Some sociolinguistic variables and their impact on first conjugation infixation in Dolomitic Ladin:; title: The relation between the age group to which the informants belong and infixation:; title: The relation between the 'Ladin competences' of the informants and infixation:; title: The relation between genderof the informants and infixation;; title: Geo-Iinguistic variables and their impact on first conjugation infixation in Central Dolomitic Ladin:; title: The relation between macro-dialectal differentiation and infixation:; title: The relation between micro-dialectal differentiation and infixation;; title: Conclusion and comparison with the impact of intra-linguistic variables on first conjugation infixation in Dolomitic Ladin --; title: Conclusions.; title: Organization of the chapter ;; title: The fate of -I/ESC- and -IDI- in Romance : balance;; title: Functional and evolutionary similarities between -I/ESC- and -IDI-:; title: Morphological 'split' in the diachronic evolution of the two infixes:; title: The produetivity of the infixed conjugation sub-classes in Romance:; title: Reluctance of 'base verbs' to inflectional infixation in Romance:; title: The shortcomings of a semantic-aspectual delimitation of the infixed sub-classes in Romance:; title: The 'appeal' of the rhizotonic forms on the intra-paradigmatic restrueturing of the infixes in Romance;; title: Functional and evolutionary divergences between -I/ESC- and -IDI-:; title: Derivational produetivity of the infixes in Latin:; title: Intra-paradigmatic configuration of the infixes in Latin:; title: 'Areal resonance' of the inflectional and derivational application of the infixes in Romance:; title: Principles of lexical spread of the infixes in Romance:; title: 'Patterning'of the infixes in Romance ;; title: Explanatory and predictive factors: towards an integrative frame;; title: 'Triggers' and 'blockers' of the lexical distribution of first conjugation infixation:; title: General profiles of the lexical spread of first conjugation infixation:; title: Detailed profile of the lexical spread of first conjugation infixation in Dolomitic Ladin;; title: 'Predictors' of intra-paradigmatic //Esc-constellations ;; title: Some theoretical perspectives;; title: Degrammaticalization vs. functionality of inflectional infixation;; title: The struggle between the presumed 'unidirectionality' of linguistic change and the 'freedom' of the Speaker;; title: Macro-structural/patterned analogy : initiation vs. propagation of a change ;; title: Some directions for further research;; title: Dialectological and sociolinguistic research;; title: The examination of synchronic stages between diachronic endpoints ;; title: Concluding remark ---- References-- List of tables-- List of figures-- List of maps.