The effect of language contact on Romance verbal paradigms : an empirical survey

The effect of language contact on Romance verbal paradigms : an empirical survey

Rather than conveying morphosyntactic meaning, conjugation classes determine how such properties are expressed. Conjugation classes are therefore ‘ornamental’ properties of language and clearly not essential to communication. Such purely formal distinctions tend to be absent from contact varieties l...

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Main Author: Ana R. Luís
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade do Porto 2008-01-01
Series:Linguística : Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto
Subjects:
. Morphological change
language contact
verbal inflection
theme vowels
conjugation classes
Indo-Portuguese
Spanish Romani
Online Access:http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/6879.pdf

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