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Title:Stress and morphology in the Italian verb system
Authors:ID Guerzoni, Elena (Author)
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Language:English
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Organization:UNG - University of Nova Gorica
Abstract:In this paper I present an analysis of stress in Italian verbs. A preliminary comparison between nouns and adjectives on the one hand and verbs on the other reveals that these the two classes of words differ in an interesting way when it comes to stress assignment: while on a noun or adjective stress can be predicted to a large extent on the basis of a stress rule that fully coincides with the main stress rule of Classical Latin, inflection affects stress position on verbs in an apparently unpredictable fashion. Although, at first sight, this difference seems to preclude a unified account of stress in the language, this paper shows that once the additional morphological complexity of verbs is factored in, it is in fact the same algorithm that assigns stress in both word classes.
Keywords:Italian verb, tense, stress
Place of publishing:[Cambridge
Place of performance:[Cambridge
Publisher:E. Guerzoni
Year of publishing:2000
Year of performance:2000
Number of pages:51 str.
PID:20.500.12556/RUNG-8903 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:186952195 New window
UDC:81
NUK URN:URN:SI:UNG:REP:V7NRSM91
Publication date in RUNG:27.02.2024
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