Affiliation:
1. CNRS (LLACAN, UMR 8135)
Abstract
Abstract
In several varieties of Catalan, Valencian and Occitan, inflectional exponents originating in the imperfect
subjunctive (reflex of Latin pluperfect subjunctive) are analogically extended into the first and second person plural present
subjunctive forms, resulting in syncretism between present and imperfect subjunctive forms for the relevant persons. The scope and
directionality of such extensions are remarkably consistent, and are indicative of a change driven by the structure of the
inflectional paradigm in the relevant varieties. A significant consequence of this development, which fits into a general Romance
tendency for analogical remodelling of first and second person plural forms, is alignment between previously overlapping
distributions of stem allomorphs and stress placement, and thus greater predictability of inflected forms.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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