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A morphophonological analysis of the velar insert in Italian verbs

Author(s) -

Nicola Lampitelli

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

glossa a journal of general linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2397-1835

DOI - 10.5334/gjgl.234

Subject(s) - allomorph , alternation (linguistics) , linguistics , syntax , root (linguistics) , morpho , morphology (biology) , word formation , insert (composites) , computer science , germanic languages , psychology , morpheme , german , biology , philosophy , botany , engineering , mechanical engineering , genetics

International audienceThis paper analyzes a particular group of Italian irregular verbs that are characterized by the insertion of [g] between the root and the inflectional markers. Despite the apparent unetymological status of such a velar insert (Rohlfs 1968), it is shown that the allomorphy of the root depends on the internal organization of the segmental material with respect to a fixed template made of a strict alternation of onsets (C) and nuclei (V). The analyses are couched within the CVCV framework (Lowenstamm 1996; Scheer 2004) and are consistent with a syntactic approach to word-formation such as Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993; Embick 2010)

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