Tonic pronominal system: Morphophonology

• Autores: Chiara Cappellaro
• Localización: The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages / Adam Ledgeway (ed. lit.), Martin Maiden (ed. lit.), 2016, ISBN 9780199677108, págs. 722-741
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter isurveys some of the most important issues regarding the morphophonological properties of Romance tonic pronouns. It covers person, number, gender, case, and animacy distinctions and markedness restrictions; cumulative exponence and syncretisms; overabundance; suppletion; tonic versus weak distinctions); allomorphic variations and concomitant positional restrictions; demonstratives as sources of tonic pronouns. Specific topics dealt with include: aspects of person marking from Latin to Romance; third person pronouns; morphological competition in the history of Romance personal pronouns; competition due to ‘case’ loss; competition due to loss of semantic contrast between IPSE and ILLE; first and second person marking; third person marking; non-canonical phenomena in Romance third person markers; canonical inflection; syncretism; suppletion.