A romance solution to Spanish "soy", "voy", "doy", "estoy"

Dieter Wanner ^[1]
1. [1] Ohio State University
  
  Ohio State University
  
  City of Columbus, Estados Unidos
Localización: Cuadernos de Lingüística, ISSN 1137-7267, Nº. 12, 2005, ISBN 84-95048-57-4, págs. 1-19
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- The change from Medieval Spanish "(yo) so, do, vo, estó" to modern "(yo) soy, doy, voy, estoy" still requires a plausible explanation in spite of the many proposals in the literature. A pan-Romance perspective recognizes wide-spread analogical deformations of the Latin 1s pres ind form SUM "I am". Using an electronic corpus of Medieval Spanish texts, "(yo) soy" turns out to predate the other three form by almost 200 years. These new data stablish a verb-specific analogy from the Lat. 1s preterit FUI with ending +i as the source of the anti-etymological ending first in "so", and later on in the other three verbs. The development traced here provides evidence for a more articulated and useful notion of analogy for historical morphological processes.