Roca, I (2010) 'Theme vowel allomorphy in Spanish verb inflection: An autosegmental optimality account.' Lingua, 120 (2). pp. 408-434. ISSN 0024-3841

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new analysis of Spanish verb forms. It works from a general assumption in the Spanish literature that the Spanish verb consists of a root followed by a verb theme marker; these are followed by tense/aspect/mood and finally by person/ number. While this structure is often transparent, there are cases where it is unclear, leading to a variety of previous analyses. Problematic cases are accounted for here without violating this order of morphemes. The proposal is compared with the classical analysis by Harris and with a recent one by Arregi.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Archiphonemic underspecification; Distributed Morphology; Feature-sized morpheme; Optimality theory; Spanish verb inflection; Theme vowel allomorphy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of
SWORD Depositor:	Elements
Depositing User:	Elements
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2011 12:42
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2022 13:37
URI:	http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1049

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