Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Morphological theories, the Autonomy of Morphology, and Romance data -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Autonomy of Morphology -- 3. Autonomous patterns in Romance inflectional morphology -- 3.1 Patterns of stem alternants in the Romance verb -- 3.2 Syncretism as an autonomous morphological pattern -- 3.3 Case study: The neutralization of Francoprovençal person prefixes -- 3.4 Inflectional classes -- 4. Lexical Phonology and Morphology as a non-autonomous model -- 5. Formal theories of inflectional morphology -- 5.1 Paradigm Function Morphology (PFM) -- 6. Autonomous morphology and word formation -- 7. Summary and structure of the present volume -- Bibliography -- A Paradox? -- 1. Emergence of the distinctive present subjunctive root -- 2. Two unexpected developments -- 2.1 Type A -- 2.2 Type B -- 3. A 'morphomic reaction'? -- 4. Type B as reinforcement of autonomous morphological structure -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Verb morphology gone astray -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syncretism patterns -- 2.1 Syncretism patterns in the Western Romance languages -- 2.2 Syncretism patterns in occitan varieties -- 2.3 Syncretism patterns in francoprovençal varieties -- 2.4 Syncretism patterns in oïl varieties -- 2.5 Results of the gallo-romance comparison and perspectives on the nature of syncretism -- 2.5.1 A typology of verb paradigms in Western Romance -- 2.5.2 Assumption of a system-structuring function of syncretism -- 3. Suppletion patterns -- 3.1 Romance distribution patterns: a 'morphomic' structure -- 3.2 Interaction of suppletion and syncretism: The verb 'to go' -- 3.3 Interaction of suppletion and syncretism: The verb 'to be' -- 4. Summary and perspectives on language change at the interface -- References.

The Friulian subject clitics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic description -- 2.1 Modern Friulian -- 2.2 The use of subject pronouns in modern Friulian -- 2.2.1 Realisation and non-realisation -- 2.2.2 Quantitative results for (non-)realisation and methodology -- 3. Analysis: Syntax, morphology, and phonology -- 3.1 The syntax of scls: Synchrony and diachrony -- 3.2 Syncretism and its avoidance in modern Friulian -- 3.3 Non-Realisation as the result of two distinct processes -- 3.4 The scl paradigms from a diachronic perspective -- 3.4.1 Feature-based extension -- 3.4.2 Morphomic analysis -- 4. Summary -- References -- Appendix -- Romance clitic pronouns in lexical paradigms -- 2. The grammatical status of clitics -- 3. Clitic paradigms -- 3.1 Agreement features -- 3.2 Features related to argument structure -- 3.3 Linear arrangement features -- 3.4 Paradigms for French and Italian -- 3.5 Clitic clusters -- 4. Mapping case features on grammatical functions -- 4.1 The partitive -- 4.2 Clitics with no grammatical function -- 4.3 The mapping from Case to grammatical function in Italian -- 4.4 Clitic paradigms in the architecture of grammar -- 5. Closing remarks and outlook -- References -- Hiatus resolution between function and lexical words in French and Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 3. Standard french -- 3.1 The function words analyzed -- 3.2 Patterns of application of the hiatus avoidance strategies -- 3.2.1 Elision -- 3.2.2 Liaison -- 3.2.3 The allomorphic alternations -- 3.3 Morphological structure of French function words -- 3.4 OT analysis -- 3.4.1 Elision -- 3.4.2 Liaison -- 3.4.3 Allomorphic alternations in singular function words -- 4. Florentine italian -- 4.1 The function words analyzed -- 4.2 Patterns of Italian elision -- 4.3 Morphological structure of Italian function words -- 4.4 OT Analysis.

4.4.1 Elision in determiners -- 4.4.2 Elision in proclitics -- 5. Hiatus avoidance strategies in French and Italian: phonology or morphology? -- References -- Occitan plurals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Typology -- 2.1 Romance -- 2.2 Occitan -- 3. Patterns for change -- 4. The double shift case -- 5. Theoretical considerations -- 6. Plural of contracted articles and conclusions -- References -- Appendix: ALF 991: A problematic case -- Partial or complete lack of plural agreement: the role of morphology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lack of plural marking or plural agreement within the DP: the data -- 3. The role of morphology -- 3.1 Lack of plural marking due to morphological constraints (Ortmann 2000, 2004) -- 3.2 The Split-Concord Hypothesis (Bonet, Lloret & Mascaró 2009) -- 3.3 A syntactic account of phrasal plural marking -- 3.4 Plural marking within the DP and phrasal suffixes -- 3.5 A syntactic account: percolation restriction (Rasom 2008) -- 3.6 A post-syntactic morphological account: deletion of the plural marker (Taraldsen 2009) -- 4. Conclusion and further discussion -- References -- Noun inflectional classes in Maceratese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Framework and data -- 2.1 Analysing (canonical) inflectional classes -- 2.2 Data sources -- 2.3 Background -- 3. Noun inflection classes in modern maceratese -- 3.1 Inflectional class features: affixal -- 3.2 Inflectional class features: stem alternations -- 3.3 Describing inflectional classes -- 3.3.1 The -a/-e class -- 3.3.2 The -u/-i class -- 3.3.3 The -e/-i class -- 3.3.4 The -a/-i class -- 3.3.5 The -u/-e class -- 3.3.6 The uninflected class -- 3.3.7 The -o/-Ø class -- 3.3.8 The -ó/-ú class -- 3.4 Evaluation of Maceratese inflectional classes in terms of canonicity -- 3.5 The relationship between inflectional class, gender and phonological form -- 4. Diachrony -- 4.1 Oldest documents: 13th century.

4.2 14th century -- 4.3 Late 14th to mid 15th century -- 4.4 19th century -- 4.5 Late 19th - 1st half of 20th century -- 4.6 20th century: 1940-1980 -- 4.7 Historical outline -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Participles and nominal aspect -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Diachronic aspects -- 2.1 The origin of the Latin participles -- 2.2 The meaning of the PPart and the FPart -- 2.3 A comparison of PPart and FPart -- 3. Synchronic studies: the state of the art -- 3.1 Matthews 1972 -- 3.2 Aronoff 1994 -- 3.3 Embick & Halle 2005 -- 3.4 Ippolito 1999 -- 3.5 Vincent 2008 -- 4. Alternative analyses in DM -- 4.1 Alternative segmentation -- 4.2 Attribution of alternative values -- 5. Conclusion and further research -- 5.1 Results -- 5.2 Further perspective I: Participles from Latin to Romance -- 5.3 Further perspective II: A Romance derivational pattern -- References -- Modifying suffixes in Italian and the autonomy of morphology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphological modification -- 2.1 The LIP corpus -- 3. Restrictions -- 3.1 Morphological Restrictions -- 3.1.1 Bases with -ità -- 3.1.2 Bases with -ismo -- 3.2 Nevertheless, bloggers do it -- 4. Double access to words and relative frequency -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- SE-verbs, SE-forms or SE-constructions? SE and its transitional stages between morphology and syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Functions of the SE+verb sequences -- 3. Status of SE -- 3.1 Categorial status -- 3.2 Affix or clitic? -- 3.3 Derivational formative or "inflectional" formative? -- 3.4 SE+verb sequence: lexical valence change or grammatical diathetic operation? -- 4. Diachronic change of the SE+verb sequence -- 5. A short look at the French-based creoles -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The lexicalist hypothesis and the semantics of event nominalization suffixes -- 1. Introduction.

2. Lexicalist versus syntactic treatments of event nominalizations: Basic lines of the debate -- 3. The semantic viewpoint and the significance of the nominalizing suffixes -- 4. The semantic analysis of the French nominalization suffixes -age and -ment -- 4.1 Recent contrastive analysis of new French -age and -ment -- 4.2 The semantics of the French -age derivation -- 4.3 The semantics of the French -ment suffixation -- 4.4 The semantics of French -age and -ment and the several differences between -ment and -age nominalizations -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Italian brand names - morphological categorisation and the autonomy of morphology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brand names between derivation and compounding -- 3. Productivity of suffixation in italian brand name creation -- 3.1 Modification -- 3.2 The superlative suffix -issimo -- 4. Brand names and the autonomy of morphology -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Author index -- Index of subjects and languages.