Weak Prepositions in Tortosan Catalan : alternation of Prepositions, Allomorphy or Phonological Process
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 [an] which this preposition takes in certain contexts: specifically when it is fol...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1996 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:21213 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/21213 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Morphophonology Prepositions Catalan dialects Morfofonologia Preposicions Dialectes Catalans |
| Sumario: | 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 [an] 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. Optimal 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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