LIN376H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Attendant Circumstance, Regular And Irregular Verbs, Grammaticalization
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Chapter eleven formation of the romance lexicon. Latin was a mix of words destined to vanish, others that remained vigorous and others newly introduced. Words adopted in popular speech tend to survive in romance while others recede into disuse. The irregular verb ferre carry" is eclipsed by regular portare, allomorphic pulcher. One simple step is to make a noun directly from a verb stem. Examples of these deverbal nouns include: (ex)-volat (v. ) Flies" (n. ) vola (it. ) volo vuela (sp. ) vuelo vole (fr. ) vol voa (port. ) voo zboara (rom. ) zbor. There are numerous denominal verbs, created from nouns; signu sign" > signare mark", Latin has a mechanism for deriving frequentative or iterative verbs, meaning do something repeatedly". Answer: take the past participle stem of the base verb and add are. Class i verbs whose paradigms are fully predictable, frequentatives often supplant the base verb.
