The Boundaries of Pure Morphology OXFORD STUDIES IN DIACHRONIC AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS GENERAL EDITORS AdamLedgeway and IanRoberts, University ofCambridge ADVISORY EDITORS Cynthia Allen,Australian National University;Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, University of Manchester;Theresa Biberauer, University ofCambridge;Charlotte Galves, Universityof Campinas;Geoff Horrocks, University ofCambridge;Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University; Anthony Kroch,University ofPennsylvania;DavidLightfoot, Georgetown University; Giuseppe Longobardi, University of York; DavidWillis,University of Cambridge PUBLISHED 1 From Latin toRomance Morphosyntactic Typology andChange Adam Ledgeway 2 Parameter Theory andLinguistic Change Editedby CharlotteGalves, Sonia Cyrino, RuthLopes, Filomena Sandalo,and Juanito Avelar 3 Casein Semitic Roles, Relations, andReconstruction RebeccaHasselbach 4 The Boundaries ofPure Morphology Diachronic andSynchronic Perspectives Editedby SilvioCruschina, MartinMaiden,and John CharlesSmith 5 The History ofNegation in theLanguages of Europeandthe Mediterranean VolumeI:CaseStudies Edited byDavid Willis,Christopher Lucas,and Anne Breitbarth 6 Constructionalization andConstructional Changes Elizabeth Traugott and GraemeTrousdale 7 WordOrder in OldItalian CeciliaPoletto [Foracomplete list ofbookspublished and inpreparation forthe seriesseepp.321-22.] The Boundaries of Pure Morphology Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives Edited by SILVIO CRUSCHINA MARTIN MAIDEN JOHN CHARLES SMITH 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,ox26dp, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©editorialmatterandorganizationSilvioCruschina,MartinMaiden,and JohnCharlesSmith2013 ©thechapterstheirseveralauthors2013 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted Firstpublishedin2013 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable ISBN978–0–19–967886–0 Asprintedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,cr04yy Contents Series preface vii List of abbreviations viii Notes on contributors xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Stem alternations in Swiss Rumantsch 8 Stephen R. Anderson 3 ‘Semi-autonomous’ morphology? A problem in the history of the Italian (and Romanian) verb 24 Martin Maiden 4 The Italian finire-type verbs: a case of morphomic attraction 45 Martina Da Tos 5 The fate of the -id(i)- morpheme in the Central Dolomitic Ladin varieties of northern Italy: variable conditioning of a morphological mechanism 68 Claire Meul 6 Future and conditional in Occitan: a non-canonical morphome 95 Louise Esher 7 Compositionality and change in conditionals and counterfactuals in Romance 116 Nigel Vincent 8 Morphomes in Sardinian verb inflection 137 Michele Loporcaro 9 The roots of language 161 Mark Aronoff 10 Morphomic stems in the Northern Talyshi verb: diachrony and synchrony 181 Steven Kaye 11 Overabundance in diachrony: a case study 209 Chiara Cappellaro 12 The morphome and morphosyntactic/semantic features 221 Paul O’Neill vi Contents 13 The morphome as a gradient phenomenon: evidence from Romance 247 John Charles Smith 14 Beyond the stem and inflectional morphology: an irregular pattern at the level of periphrasis 262 Silvio Cruschina References 284 Index 309 Series preface Modern diachronic linguistics has important contacts with other subdisciplines, notably first-language acquisition, learnability theory, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, and the traditional philological study of texts. It is now recognized in the wider field that diachronic linguistics can make a novel contribution to linguistic theory, to historical linguistics, and arguably to cognitive science more widely. This series provides a forum for work in both diachronic and historical linguistics, includingwork onchange ingrammar,sound, andmeaningwithinand across languages; synchronic studies of languages in the past; and descriptive historiesofoneormorelanguages.Itisintendedtoreflectandencouragethelinks between these subjects and fields such as those mentioned above. The goal of the series is to publish high-quality monographs and collections of papers in diachronic linguistics generally, i.e. studies focusing on change in linguisticstructure,and/orchangeingrammars,whicharealsointendedtomakea contribution to linguistic theory, by developing and adopting a current theoretical model, by raising wider questions concerning the nature of language change, or by developing theoretical connections with other areas of linguistics and cognitive science as listed above. There is no bias towards a particular language or language family, or towards a particular theoretical framework; work in all theoretical frameworks, and work based on the descriptive tradition of language typology, as well as quantitatively based work using theoretical ideas, also feature in the series. Adam Ledgeway and Ian Roberts University of Cambridge List of abbreviations 1pl first person plural 1sg first person singular 2pl second person plural 2sg second person singular 3pl third person plural 3sg third person singular A adjective acc accusative Adv. adverb Amp. Ampezzano Bad. Badiotto Br. Brach BS basic stem Caz. Cazet cl clitic coll. colloquial Coll. Collese cond conditional conj. conjugation cop copula dat dative DIC doubly inflected construction DM Distributed Morphology ExclF exclusion feature f feminine Fass. Fassano FIP future in thepast Fod. Fodom Fr. French Fue(cid:2)c future and conditional fut future List of abbreviations ix Gard. Gardenese gen genitive ger gerund Germ. Germanic IE Indo-European imp imperative impf imperfect ind indicative inf infinitive intr. intransitive It. Italian L1 FirstLanguage Lat. Latin loc locative Log. Logudorese m masculine Mar. Marebbano MIr. Middle Iranian Moen. Moenat MPers. Middle Persian N noun neut neuter nom nominative NT NorthernTalyshi obl oblique OCSl OldChurch Slavonic OFr. oldFrench OIr. OldIranian OLog. oldLogudorese OSp. oldSpanish pl plural plpf pluperfect PN person andnumber markers pret preterite prf perfect