A classless analysis of Italian nouns and their theme-vowel alternations

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dc.contributor.authorLampitelli, Nicola
dc.contributor.authorUlfsbjorninn, Shanti
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-19T14:38:51Z
dc.date.available2025-06-19T14:38:51Z
dc.date.issued2023-02-05
dc.date.updated2025-06-19T14:38:51Z
dc.description.abstractThe decompositional, non-lexicalist, approach to word-structure and the theory of roots have proven highly rewarding. One grey area, however, comes from Romance since, rather than roots, the word structure primitive appears to be the stem: root + ‘stem-formative/theme vowel’. Regardless, there have been perspicacious decompositional accounts of Italian, however these are still marred by the large number of morphological/item-specific irregularities, motivating arbitrary noun classes. Additionally, there are roots that do not inflect: consonant-final and vowel-final forms when these are oxytonic or loanwords. Given these irregularities, previous analyses in Italian have included the use of lexical exceptions and class features. We challenge the use of class features in generating the attested patterns (and their exceptions). Instead, we propose a new categorisation of root-shapes, which, when combined with the exponents of nominal inflection, produce the correct surface pairings, as well as the non-alternating forms. In our analysis, there is no diacritic or special marking of lexical exceptions, all forms inflect regularly in accordance to their phonological shape. This requires the innovation of one new mechanism (Inhibition), but we back it up by showing that it leads to an unexpected beneficial prediction that solves a long-standing problem associated with Raddoppiamento Sintattico (RS).en
dc.identifier.citationLampitelli, N., & Ulfsbjorninn, S. (2023). A classless analysis of Italian nouns and their theme-vowel alternations. Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.5565/REV/ISOGLOSS.242
dc.identifier.doi10.5565/REV/ISOGLOSS.242
dc.identifier.eissn2385-4138
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/3106
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques (IKER)
dc.publisherUniversidad Autónoma de Barcelona = Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
dc.publisherUniversitat de Girona = Universidad de Gerona, Grup de Lèxic i Gramàtica
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2023 Nicola Lampitelli, Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
dc.subject.otherTheme vowels
dc.subject.otherClass features
dc.subject.otherDistributed morphology
dc.subject.otherRoots
dc.subject.otherRaddoppiamento sintattico
dc.titleA classless analysis of Italian nouns and their theme-vowel alternationsen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.issue1
oaire.citation.titleIsogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics
oaire.citation.volume9
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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