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Title:
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Le concept de paradigme et la morphologie verbale
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Author:
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Mihaela Pirvulescu
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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University of Toronto
, Department of French Studies
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Degree Date:
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2002
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Morphology
Syntax
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Subject Language(s):
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Romanian
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Director(s):
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Yves Roberge
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Abstract:
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In this thesis it is proposed that a morphological distinction between parasitic paradigms and true paradigms exists in natural languages. The distinction is based on the specific assumption that the notion of "paradigm" is relevant in the organization of inflectional affixes in verbal systems (cf. Williams 1981, 1994, Carstairs 1987, Wunderlich 1995, di Sciullo 1999) and on the empirical observation that, in the verbal paradigms of the Romanian language, one can notice that some paradigmatic patterns of different moods are very similar (e.g. present subjunctive and present indicative paradigms, present imperative and present indicative). An examination of the paradigms for the present of the subjunctive and indicative in standard romance languages (Romanian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Latin) then leads me to propose that it is only when there are distinct realizations (with respect to other paradigms) for the second person singular and plural that a true paradigm pattern is to be expected.
Assuming that there is an interface between syntax and morphology and that some morphological information is pertinent for the syntactic module, I make the hypothesis that the paradigmatic pattern is pertinent for the interface between syntax and morphology: it is proposed that this pattern is in correlation with the functional make-up of the phrase, in particular with the tense representation. A detailed analysis of Romanian subjunctives and imperatives is undertaken in which I propose that those moods, which display parasitic paradigms, lack a syntactic tense representation. It is proposed that the subjunctive is only a MoodP and the imperative only a vP and that the agreement affixes are obtained through a minimal checking mechanism for the subjunctive and through a default morphological mechanism for imperatives. Various consequences are discussed. For subjunctive: the status of the NP subject, the past subjunctive, the representation of a complex future which uses the subjunctive verb form. For imperative: the illocutionary force, the imperatives with theme vowel. The inflected infinitives in Portuguese and Hungarian are shown to provide further support for the main hypothesis: the correlation between parasitic paradigms and the lack of tense in the syntactic representation.
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