Martin Maiden

University of Oxford | OX · Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics

Multilingualism is integral to the human condition. Hinging on the concept of Creative Multilingualism – the idea that language diversity and creativity are mutually enriching – this timely and thought-provoking volume shows how the concept provides a matrix for experimentation with ideas, approaches and methods. The book presents four years of joi...

This book is the first ever comprehensive comparative-historical survey of patterns of alternation in the Romance verb that appear to be autonomously morphological in the sense that, although they can be shown to be persistent through time, they have long ceased to be conditioned by any phonological or functional determinant. Some of these patterns...

This study seeks to understand, from a comparative-historical perspective, the origins of Romanian second person singular present-tense verb-forms of the type vii, rămâi, alternating with the root-allomorph vin-, rămân-. It is argued that neither the historical emergence of this type, nor its subsequent resistance to analogical levelling, can be sa...

This study addresses the peculiar pattern of root-allomorphy exhibited by the Italo-Romance preterite. Stimulated by a recent study by Mark Elson, which depends on upholding the traditional view that the phenomenon in Italo-Romance is attributable to sound change and to the subsequent analogical extension of its paradigmatic effects, I review famil...

Romanian has a large class of nouns characterized by masculine agreement in the singular and feminine agreement in the plural. This phenomenon of alternating gender is frequently argued by traditional grammarians of Romanian, Romance linguists, and linguist typologists to constitute a neuter or third gender, distinct from masculine and feminine. Th...

This book is as an essential tool for both Romance linguists and general linguists which brings together leading recent international scholarship in individual Romance varieties and from different theoretical frameworks and approaches, showing how each may cast new and necessary light on the other. It offers a detailed structural treatment of all t...

This book is as an essential tool for both Romance linguists and general linguists which brings together leading recent international scholarship in individual Romance varieties and from different theoretical frameworks and approaches, showing how each may cast new and necessary light on the other. It offers a detailed structural treatment of all t...

This book is as an essential tool for both Romance linguists and general linguists which brings together leading recent international scholarship in individual Romance varieties and from different theoretical frameworks and approaches, showing how each may cast new and necessary light on the other. It offers a detailed structural treatment of all t...

This book is as an essential tool for both Romance linguists and general linguists which brings together leading recent international scholarship in individual Romance varieties and from different theoretical frameworks and approaches, showing how each may cast new and necessary light on the other. It offers a detailed structural treatment of all t...

This book is as an essential tool for both Romance linguists and general linguists which brings together leading recent international scholarship in individual Romance varieties and from different theoretical frameworks and approaches, showing how each may cast new and necessary light on the other. It offers a detailed structural treatment of all t...

This book is as an essential tool for both Romance linguists and general linguists which brings together leading recent international scholarship in individual Romance varieties and from different theoretical frameworks and approaches, showing how each may cast new and necessary light on the other. It offers a detailed structural treatment of all t...

This study questions the conventional assumption that Latin nouns of the type singular TEMPUS- plural TEMPORA (where TEMPUS and TEMPOR- were in fact simply allomorphs of the lexical root) became subject in Romance to a reanalysis such that the final portion of the plural,...ORA, was identified as a novel (and hugely productive) desinence marking pl...

The historical causes of general so-called ‘opening’ diphthongization of proto-Romance low mid vowels in stressed open syllables are an enduring matter of dispute in historical Romance phonology, the two principal positions being that the diphthongs originate in the assimilatory process of metaphony conditioned by following unstressed vowels, or th...

This study involves the existence in Megleno-Romanian dialects of a lexically suppletive distinction between singular and plural forms of the adjectives meaning ‘small’ and ‘big’. The phenomenon has gone largely unnoticed both by comparative Romance linguists and by morphological theorists yet it is both typologically surprising and theoretically s...

Italy constitutes a fertile terrain for research into language change, both because of the richness of the dialectal variation and because of the length of the period of textual attestation. Such diversity has long been the staple of research in general and Romance historical phonology, morphology, and lexis, but much less attention has been devote...

The ‘third stem’ in the Latin verb provides one of Aronoff’s best-known illustrations of the notion of ‘morphome’: unpredictably variable in form, it is also consistently associated with an abstract and heterogeneous pattern of distribution. My perspective is diachronic, exploring the history of the third stem as it continues into Romance (especial...

This chapter discusses the overall paradigmatic distribution of gaps in the Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula. It revisits the Spanish data from a historical and comparative perspective, considering the closely related language, Portuguese. Ibero- Romance paradigm gaps are determined by the lexical rarity and the morphemic patterning. Para...

What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is orga...

This book uses detailed analysis of data from Romance inflectional morphology to cast new light on the role of autonomous morphological structure in the diachrony and synchrony of the Romance languages. It constitutes a major contribution to Romance historical morphology in particular, and to our understanding of the nature and importance of morpho...

This study questions Anderson's arguments that patterns of allomorphy encountered in the Romansh verb are phonologically conditioned. While Anderson argues for vocalic alternations being conditioned by stress, I argue that the presence in the grammar of other types of alternation having the same distribution cannot be explained phonologically, and...

Cambridge Core - European Language and Linguistics - The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages - edited by Martin Maiden

Daco-Romance dialects inherited the effects of two distinct sound changes which coincidentally gave rise to almost identical distributional patterns of alternation in the inflectional paradigm of the verb. Once the original phonological conditioning of the alternants (apparently) ceased to operate, what was left was a frequently encountered yet ‘no...

This Cambridge History is the most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English. It engages with new and original topics that reflect wider-ranging comparative concerns, such as the relation between diachrony and synchrony, morphosyntactic typology, pragmatic change, the structure of written Romance, and le...

Introduction This chapter explores the relationship between phonological change and inflectional morphology in Romance. It focuses on three types of change whose interaction with morphological structure transcends the familiar scenario whereby alternations produced by sound change lose their phonetically motivated character and then become associat...

Introduction This chapter aims to describe those aspects of Latin inflectional morphology which remain substantially intact from Latin into Romance, focusing especially on cases where the relation between grammatical or lexical meaning, on the one hand, and morphological form, on the other, is arbitrary and idiosyncratic. Much of Latin inflectional...

This study deals with a significant morphological difference between Latin and Romance, namely that the latter has pervasive patterns of root-allomorphy absent from the former. Of particular interest here is the emergence of such allomorphy correlated with arbitrarily intersecting parameters of person, number, tense and mood in the verb. The altern...

This study examines some cases of heteroclisis in the history of Romanian dialects, and concludes that the data call for a reconsideration of Stump’s distinction (Language 82:279–322, 2006) between ‘cloven’ heteroclisis, where the intraparadigmatic ‘split’ is aligned with some morphosyntactic feature distinction, and ‘fractured’ heteroclisis, where...

Come in altre lingue romanze, i radicali in origine perfettivi del romeno e delle varietà dacoromanze fanno prova di una notevole «coerenza» e «convergenza» diacronica, nel senso che nonostante la sostanziale diluzione di una funzione comune che li unisca, essi sono continuati a comportarsi diacronicamente come un blocco compatto, che sotto certi a...

As a fortuitous result of sound change, a small handful of Romance verbs acquired doubly disparate patterns of allomorphy in their root: the phonological details of the resulting alternants were often quite different from verb to verb, and characterized a disjunct and highly ‘unnatural’ class of morphosyntactic properties, most commonly the gerund,...

The primary aim of this study has been simply to show that autonomously morphological structure need not be an inert, defunct, residue of an earlier état de langue, nor a kind of diachronic ‘dead end’.35 It can be a dynamic, pervasive, self-reinforcing factor in morphological change. If morphology, and in particular autonomous morphology, is a ‘dis...

This study is concerned with Vegliote, the last remnant of the Dalmatian branch of the Romance languages, as used by its very last speaker in the last quarter of the 19th century. Specifically, I shall deal with a peculiar morphological neutralization of the distinction between present and past imperfect tenses, which becomes increasingly common in...

1. I am not certain that every contributor to this Cluster would concur, but to me it seems that the linguistic study of individual Romance languages without a comparative aspect simply cannot bear the label "Romance linguistics". That Romance linguistics also has much to offer to students (and teachers) of individual Romance languages who may not...

This study addresses aspects of the phenomenon of suppletion which are relatively rarely addressed: how can semantically distinct lexemes come to acquire the status of synonymous paradigmatic alternants, and why do those alternants assume their particular paradigmatic distribution? I am especially concerned with semantically 'canonical' suppletions...

The claim which I develop in this study, on the basis of diachronic evidence from derivational suffixes in Romanian and Spanish, is that derivational affixes constitute classical, ‘Saussurean’, signs comprising a one-to-one, arbitrary, matching of form and meaning. This finding seems to contradict well-known claims in recent morphological theory th...

In morphology, as in other branches of scientific endeavour, apparent disorder and irregularity tend to be re-analysed as underlying order. Asymmetries between form and meaning, such as allomorphy, tend accordingly to be factored into basic invariance,2 sames of meaning being interpreted, where possible, as sames of form. Alternatively, as in some...

DresslerWolfgang U., LuschützkyHans C., PfeifferOskar E. & RennisonJohn R. (eds.), Contemporary morphology. (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 49.) Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. 1990. Pp. vi + 317. - Volume 28 Issue 2 - Martin Maiden