L’evolució dels verbs incoatius del català des del segle XIII fins al segle XVI

  1. Badal, Manuel 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

    Geographic location of the organization Universitat de València
Journal:
ELUA: Estudios de Lingüística. Universidad de Alicante

ISSN: 0212-7636,  2171-6692

Year of publication: 2021

Issue: 35

Pages: 37-52

Type: Article

DOI: 10.14198/ELUA2021.35.2 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR HANDLE: https://hdl.handle.net/10045/114481

More publications in: ELUA: Estudios de Lingüística. Universidad de Alicante

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the subclass of Catalan inchoative verbs, which belongs to the third conjugation. We apply the exaptation concept (Lass 1990) to explain the changes involved in the reuse of non-functional morphological material: regarding inchoative verbs, the process of exaptation consists in the recycling of a lexical affix as a root increase the moment it loses its initial meaning of ‘change of state’ and is relegated to some verbs of the third conjugation. This functional reuse implies the appearance of a subclass of verbs in the Catalan third conjugation, which, due to its stability, has become the main inflection model in this conjugation. Thus, we show, with data from works between the 13th century and the 16th century, that the inchoative model is the main inflecting model from the Catalan earliest documents and that there is no significant migration from pure pattern to the inchoative pattern during the studied period.

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Aquest estudi, finançat pel programa de subvencions per a la contractació de personal investigador de carácter predoctoral (ACIF/2017) de la Generalitat Valenciana, forma part del projecte FFI2016-76245-C3-3-P, finançat per l’Agència Estatal d’Investigació i pel FEDER (http://www.ub.edu/GEVAD), i del grup GIUV2017-397, de la Universitat de València.

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