Affiliation:
1. Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen , Institut für Romanistik , Karl-Glöckner-Str. 21 G , Gießen Germany
Abstract
Abstract
Simple metathesis can be found in numerous Ibero-Romance arabisms compared with their Andalusi Arabic etyma. The analysis of a corpus of Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan arabisms illustrates its effects on syllable structure and syllable weight. It can be shown that Arabic-Romance simple metathesis constitutes a motivated structural change that provides for typologically unmarked syllable weight relations within the word. After the resyllabification it entails the involved unstressed syllables no longer excede the stressed syllable in weight. However, it is not an obligatory, systematic process, but merely an optional tendency, which corresponds to the universal tendency expressed by the Weight Law.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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