Contamination as a cause of abnormal inflexion class changes in ‘Alpine’ Romance, and what it tells us about word-structure

This study explores some anomalies in the history of ‘conjugations’ (inflexion classes in verbs) in the Romance languages, and particularly in Ladin dialects, with some other varieties of the Alpine area. At issue is a small, generally closed and unproductive, class which I label the ‘second/third’...

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Main Author: Maiden, M
Other Authors: Esher, L
Format: Book section
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2024