Multi-Conditioned Sound Change and the Impact of Morphology on Phonology

Two ill-defined and controversial sound developments of late Old Spanish, namely the asymmetric diphthongizations ié > i and ué > e, become better understandable if one selects as starting points a set of morphological rather than phonological conditions. Both verbal inflection and suffixal de...

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Published in:Language (Baltimore) 1976-12, Vol.52 (4), p.757-778
Main Author: Malkiel, Yakov
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Consonants
Diphthongs
Historical linguistics
Lexical stress
Nouns
Rivalry
Sound change
Verbs
Words
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Summary:Two ill-defined and controversial sound developments of late Old Spanish, namely the asymmetric diphthongizations ié > i and ué > e, become better understandable if one selects as starting points a set of morphological rather than phonological conditions. Both verbal inflection and suffixal derivation can be invoked, including the rivalry of certain characteristic groups of preterits (-iemos, -ieste(s) beside -imos, -iste(s) etc.) and the competition of pairs or clusters of functionally more or less related suffixes: -ero beside -uero, -eño alongside -ueño-in addition to the pressure exerted, in the ranks of hypocoristics, by the close-knit series -ico, -ito and -in(o) on isolated -iello.
ISSN:0097-8507
1535-0665
DOI:10.2307/413294