Weak prepositions in Tortosan Catalan
In this paper, starting from a brief analysis of weak prepositions in Tortosan. I try to show that the preposition a is the only one appearing in adjunct and indirect object PPs. This forces us to account for the form Can] which this preposition takes in certain contexts: specifically when it is fol...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 1996 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Repositório: | Repositorio Digital de la UPF |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/32183 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32183 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Morphophonology Prepositions Catalan dialects Morfofonologia Preposicions Dialectes catalans |
| Resumo: | In this paper, starting from a brief analysis of weak prepositions in Tortosan. I try to show that the preposition a is the only one appearing in adjunct and indirect object PPs. This forces us to account for the form Can] which this preposition takes in certain contexts: specifically when it is followed by a vowel initial determiner or pronoun. After considering the alternative of accounting for the relation between the preposition a and the form [an] either in terms of prepositional allomorphy or in terms of epenthesis of the coronal nasal, I have chosen the latter option, since it allows us to explain similar processes affecting other prepositions (contra 'against', cap a 'towards' and per a 'for') and the privative prefix a. Optima1 syllabification (CV syllable), which is a preferred but not obligatory condition in Catalan, would be, in its formulation as the Onset Principle, the trigger for this process of consonantic epenthesis, which essentially affects the domain [clitic+word] when the former is a determiner. |
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