LINGUIST List 23.148 Mon Jan 09 2012 Diss: Romance/Historical Ling: Stovicek: 'A Developmental History ...' Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Thomas Stovicek , A Developmental History of the Hispano-Romance Verb Conjugations Message 1: A Developmental History of the Hispano-Romance Verb Conjugations Date: 05-Jan-2012 From: Thomas Stovicek <twstovicekgmail.com> Subject: A Developmental History of the Hispano-Romance Verb Conjugations E-mail this message to a friend Institution: Ohio State University Program: Department of Spanish and Portuguese Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2010 Author: Thomas W Stovicek Dissertation Title: A Developmental History of the Hispano-Romance Verb Conjugations Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Language Family(ies): Romance Dissertation Director: Wayne J Redenbarger Dissertation Abstract: This study outlines the development of Portuguese and Spanish verbal morphology from Latin in the context of the Hispanic branch of Romance, with a focus on the conjugational classes, whose number has been reduced to only three in this branch of Western Romance. It is innovative in approaching the topic as a study of sequential productive grammars in an Item and Process type framework. We have found evidence to indicate that in addition to regular phonological change, morphological restructuring played an important role in the reclassification of the Latin verb classes II-IV into the verb classes of the Hispano-Romance daughter languages. The historical data studied have been collected from published secondary sources of manuscript and dialectological data and supplemented with data from searchable electronic corpora. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Jan-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.