LIN376H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Italians In France, National Republican Greek League, Grammaticalization
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Chapter six verb morphology: the present indicative part 2. Spanish has a three-conjugation system, with class iii verbs assimilating totally to class ii or iv, even in their infinitives. The first plural forms in spanish are normal reflexes of the latin forms. In the second plural shows up as in old spanish, -ades, -edes, -ides. Third plural forms lose their final When a conditioned sound change occurs in a verb paradigm, it may affect some forms and not others. The result is patterned allomorphy, predictable alternations in the stem (or root) morpheme. There are three main types of verb allomorphy in romance. Allomorphy induced by stress position: in the present tense paradigms of popular. Latin, the stress position alternates in the paradigm of udire, it is not the stressed stem, but the unstressed stem, that has an allormorph from sound change: the arhizotonic forms show pretonic raising.
