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  • Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages - Palatals in the Romance Languages today
    Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages, 2019
    Co-Authors: André Zampaulo
    Abstract:

    This chapter provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the various manifestations of palatals throughout current Romance varieties, based upon data and maps available in the literature and upon new data, particularly on varieties of Argentine Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. This dialectal overview is key to illustrate the continuous evolutionary thread of palatals in the history of the Romance Languages. Specifically, this chapter demonstrates how recent and current variation and change patterns in many Romance varieties mirror those changes which are documented or reconstructed throughout the linguistic evolution of the Romance Languages. An up-to-date dialectal snapshot, therefore, stands as one of the best means through which one can reconstruct changes that took place historically and for which precise spoken data is ever impossible to access.

  • Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages - Palatals in the history of the Romance Languages
    Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages, 2019
    Co-Authors: André Zampaulo
    Abstract:

    Tracking the origins of Romance palatals is central to fully understand how their current dialectal manifestations have come to be so varied. This chapter traces the documented diachronic pathways of palatals in the development of the Romance Languages from their origins in Latin. In addition to unveiling their evolution, this chapter also reviews the insights of, and challenges posed by, previous accounts in the literature to explain the series of different phonetic changes that led to the emergence of the aforementioned sounds. Historically documented data as well as sound reconstructions that have been proposed based upon comparative evidence are presented. In light of much disagreement that exists with regard to particular sound reconstructions due to the lack of available historical data, this chapter presents sound reconstructions from the most plausible and phonetically grounded perspective and in agreement with similar change processes observed throughout the Romance-speaking world.

  • Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
    2019
    Co-Authors: André Zampaulo
    Abstract:

    This monograph presents a thorough investigation of the main historical and present-day variation and change patterns undergone by palatal sounds in the Romance Languages. By relying on phonetic and phonological information to motivate a formal account of palatal sound change, the analyses proposed in this book offer a principled, constraint-based explanation for the evolution of palatals in the Romance-speaking world. It provides a robust and up-to-date literature review on the subject, taking into consideration not only the viewpoints and data from diachronic research, but also the results from various phonetic, phonological, dialectal, and comprehensive studies. By taking into account the role of phonetic information in the shaping of phonological patterns, this book approaches sound change from its inception during the speaker-listener interaction and formalizes it as the difference in constraint ranking between the grammar of the speaker and that of the listener-turned-speaker. This perspective is intended to model how and why similar change events may take place in different varieties and/or the same language across periods of time.

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J D W Schroten - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The head of the Verb+Noun compounds in the Romance Languages
    2020
    Co-Authors: J D W Schroten
    Abstract:

    Verb+Noun compounds in Spanish and the other Romance Languages have wellknown curious properties: (i) lack of nominalizing affix on the Verb; (ii) obligatory presence of the Noun, interpreted as the direct object of the Verb; (iii) interpretation as referring to persons or instruments able to perform the action expressed by the transitive verb. Compounds are uncommon in the Romance Languages, whereas they are common and very productive in the Germanic Languages. Verb+Noun compounds, however, are hardly found in the Germanic Languages. The "Minimalist" model adopted in the analysis will provide the basic explanation: Verb+Noun compounds reflect the most "basic" syntactic structure, which can be used by default as a lexical process in the Romance Languages, where "real compounding", incorporation of the noun into the verb, is out. The basic syntactic-lexical process is completed by another default process: the Verb+Noun is a lexical predicate in need of a subject, which is, again, provided "by default": [+HUMAN] or, by extension, [+INSTRUMENT] interpretation.

  • the head of the verb noun compounds in the Romance Languages
    IBERIA: An International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2010
    Co-Authors: J D W Schroten
    Abstract:

    Verb+Noun compounds in Spanish and the other Romance Languages have wellknown curious properties: (i) lack of nominalizing affix on the Verb; (ii) obligatory presence of the Noun, interpreted as the direct object of the Verb; (iii) interpretation as referring to persons or instruments able to perform the action expressed by the transitive verb. Compounds are uncommon in the Romance Languages, whereas they are common and very productive in the Germanic Languages. Verb+Noun compounds, however, are hardly found in the Germanic Languages. The "Minimalist" model adopted in the analysis will provide the basic explanation: Verb+Noun compounds reflect the most "basic" syntactic structure, which can be used by default as a lexical process in the Romance Languages, where "real compounding", incorporation of the noun into the verb, is out. The basic syntactic-lexical process is completed by another default process: the Verb+Noun is a lexical predicate in need of a subject, which is, again, provided "by default": [+HUMAN] or, by extension, [+INSTRUMENT] interpretation.

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