3 Inflectional Morphology
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Francisco Dubert García
Abstract
This chapter presents a basic description of the inflectional morphology of the Galician language: gender, number and morphological classes in nouns and adjectives; the allomorphy of the definite article; the paradigms of pronouns and determiners (including their allomorphic alternations and their contractions with the word forms of other lexemes); verbal morphology will merit special attention since the Galician verbal paradigm contains sixty-nine morphosyntactic cells and verbs should belong to one of three existing conjugations. Galician being a moderately fusional language, the content of the morphosyntactic cells may be expressed through the addition of suffixes, zero morphology or modifications in the verbal root.
Abstract
This chapter presents a basic description of the inflectional morphology of the Galician language: gender, number and morphological classes in nouns and adjectives; the allomorphy of the definite article; the paradigms of pronouns and determiners (including their allomorphic alternations and their contractions with the word forms of other lexemes); verbal morphology will merit special attention since the Galician verbal paradigm contains sixty-nine morphosyntactic cells and verbs should belong to one of three existing conjugations. Galician being a moderately fusional language, the content of the morphosyntactic cells may be expressed through the addition of suffixes, zero morphology or modifications in the verbal root.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Contents VII
- Abbreviations IX
- Introduction 1
- 1 Galician and Romance Linguistics 5
- 2 Phonetics and Phonology 19
- 3 Inflectional Morphology 53
- 4 Word Formation 77
- 5 Syntax 107
- 6 Phraseology 157
- 7 Lexicography 173
- 8 Discourse Markers 193
- 9 Dialectal Variation 217
- 10 Spoken and Written Language 243
- 11 Language and Society 259
- 12 Galician-Spanish Language Contact 281
- 13 Codification and Standard Language 303
- 14 Terminology and Neology 319
- 15 Language and Education 335
- 16 Galician and the Media 353
- 17 Language and Emigration 373
- 18 Social History of the Galician Language 393
- 19 The Emergence of Galician as a Written Language 427
- 20 Historical Phonetics and Phonology 441
- 21 Historical Morphology 465
- 22 History of Galician Lexicon 493
- 23 Onomastics 517
- 24 Linguistic Historiography 537
- List of Contributors 559
- Index 561
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Contents VII
- Abbreviations IX
- Introduction 1
- 1 Galician and Romance Linguistics 5
- 2 Phonetics and Phonology 19
- 3 Inflectional Morphology 53
- 4 Word Formation 77
- 5 Syntax 107
- 6 Phraseology 157
- 7 Lexicography 173
- 8 Discourse Markers 193
- 9 Dialectal Variation 217
- 10 Spoken and Written Language 243
- 11 Language and Society 259
- 12 Galician-Spanish Language Contact 281
- 13 Codification and Standard Language 303
- 14 Terminology and Neology 319
- 15 Language and Education 335
- 16 Galician and the Media 353
- 17 Language and Emigration 373
- 18 Social History of the Galician Language 393
- 19 The Emergence of Galician as a Written Language 427
- 20 Historical Phonetics and Phonology 441
- 21 Historical Morphology 465
- 22 History of Galician Lexicon 493
- 23 Onomastics 517
- 24 Linguistic Historiography 537
- List of Contributors 559
- Index 561
