morphological? - KOPS - Universität Konstanz

L. Garrapa: Italian Vowel Deletion across Word Boundaries: Phonology or Morphology?
b) Optional and not frequent VD, phonologically conditioned, which is likely to apply to
lo/a/i/e, glielo/a/i/e as well as to mi/ci and gli followed by lexical verbs beginning, in their
turn, with unstressed vowels.
!" At the beginning, VD was a single postlexical phenomenon. Subsequently, VD applying to
determiners developped into a lexical phenomenon and underwent morphological leveling, while
VD applying to pronouns only lost productivity and underwent morphological leveling in some
respects.
Acknowledgements
I am indebted to Judith Meinschaefer, Mirko Grimaldi, Stefano Canalis, Lori Repetti and Anton Stasche
for helpful comments, suggestions and discussion on previous versions of this paper as well as for constant
encouragement. I am also grateful to Salvatore De Masi and Martin Schuetzner for helping me with the
statistical analysis. Needless to say, all remaining errors are mine.
This study was financially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through its research
project ‘Morphophonological variation at word edges: evidence from Romance’/ Sonderforschungsbereich
471 ‘Variation and development in the mental lexicon’ at the University of Konstanz (Germany).
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