27.2399, Diss: Romance, Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling: Lamar A. Graham: 'The history of the future: morphophonology, syntax, and grammaticalization'

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Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 09:53:49
From: Lamar Graham [lagraham at email.unc.edu]
Subject: The history of the future: morphophonology, syntax, and grammaticalization

 
Institution: University of Georgia 
Program: Romance Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2015 

Author: Lamar A. Graham

Dissertation Title: The history of the future: morphophonology, syntax, and
grammaticalization 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Romance


Dissertation Director(s):
Lewis Chadwick Howe

Dissertation Abstract:

The appearance of new verbal paradigms in the Romance languages – namely, the
synthetic future indicative and conditional paradigms – has been one of the
hallmark studies within the field of grammaticalization.  Already existing in
Latin was a synthetic future indicative paradigm, with a full complement of
endings.  Many researchers (Garey 1955; Hopper and Traugott 2003; Slobbe 2004;
among others) have agreed that the infinitive + HABĒRE construction was the
genesis of Romance future paradigms, obviating and completely replacing the
disfavored Latin synthetic future.  However, even after Latin evolved into
Spanish, there still existed a duality between a periphrastic, analytic future
and a paradigmatic, synthetic future.  Said duality implied several syntactic
and morphophonological characteristics of Old and Classical Spanish, some of
which are no longer extant in the modern language.

Through an empirical study, employing variable rules analyses, of Old and
Classical Spanish texts, it is shown that the synthetic and analytic future
and conditional were not always fully complementary of another, as the
synthetic began to be used in contexts customarily reserved for the analytic
construction.  Within this work it will be shown how morphophonological and
syntactic properties necessitated the existence of the analytic construction,
especially the status of the auxiliary-turned-affix-turned-inflectional ending
haber.  Also of interest will be the manner in which the future and
conditional paradigms derived syntactically in Old and Classical Spanish, with
special attention lent to the role of cliticization principles in their
structure.  The findings rooted in these several theoretical fields will
import a greater understanding of the eventual loss of the analytic future and
conditional prior to the advent of the Modern Spanish era.




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