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Verbal Suppletion in Romance Synchrony and Diachrony: The Perspective of Distributed Morphology
Author(s) -
Pomino Natascha,
Remberger EvaMaria
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/1467-968x.12170
Subject(s) - romance languages , romance , linguistics , perspective (graphical) , variation (astronomy) , verb , variety (cybernetics) , vocabulary , computer science , history , literature , philosophy , artificial intelligence , art , physics , astrophysics
This article studies the various suppletive patterns found with respect to the Romance movement verb go , both under a diachronic and a synchronic perspective, within the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). The Romance varieties all started with the loss of verbal forms of Lat. īre – indeed, there is no Romance variety that retained the full paradigm – but reached different solutions in diachrony. A particular case, implemented by underspecified Vocabulary Items in DM, is overlapping suppletion, as found in Spanish, where the absolute default auxiliary be shares part of its forms with go . In this article, different types of suppletion are distinguished and selected aspects of suppletion are analysed in order to illustrate how DM can systematically account for them. From the perspective of DM, we discuss why non‐categorial suppletion is restricted to the present tense, how resistance to innovation of 1/2pl can be modelled and how subsequent analogical levelling can be formalised. Finally, we show why, as in Ibero‐Romance, forms of be can be used for go .