Title of article
Romance plurals
Author/Authors
Yves D’hulst، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
Pages
27
From page
1303
To page
1329
Abstract
In this paper I argue that eastern Romance (Italian and Romanian) plurals are underlyingly similar to their western Romance equivalents (e.g. Spanish and old French): they are built from an unmarked (singular) stem and a plural morpheme. Throughout history, this morpheme has fundamentally preserved its formal shape: Romance plural corresponds to the morphophonological feature /coronal/. This feature is realized both in the vocalic alternations of eastern Romance plurals, and in the consonantal [s] plurals of western Romance.
Keywords
Italian , romanian , Historical linguistics , phonology , morphology , Noun , Adjective , Romance , plural , number
Journal title
Lingua(International Review of General Linguistics)
Serial Year
2006
Journal title
Lingua(International Review of General Linguistics)
Record number
1290467
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