Exploring Latin’s verbal paradigm: vocabulary items and morphological operations
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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v50i1.2951Keywords:
Verb structure, Distributed Morphology, vocabulary insertion, morphological operations.Abstract
This paper aims to formally describe the items which constitute a part of Latin’s verbal paradigm (present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect of the first and second declension in the active voice) under the framework of Distributed Morphology (HALLE; MARANTZ, 1993; MARANTZ, 1997), a model of syntactic word building in which phonological information is dissociated from (morpho)syntactic information. That distribution of properties reduces the need to duplicate lexical entries in cases of allomorphy, which opens many possibilities of analysis for Latin, a language that is full of instantiations of the phenomenon. The analysis combines aspects previously developed in Aronoff (1994) and Embick (2000, 2010, 2015) for Latin and in Calabrese (2012) for Italian and incorporates a variety of morphological operations to describe the vocabulary items of the verbs.Downloads
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