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Título del libro: Routledge Handbook Of Spanish Morphology
Título del capítulo: The basic infectional structure of verbs (I) Aspect, tense, mood and agreement

Autores UNAM:
RAMON FELIPE ZACARIAS PONCE DE LEON;
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Año de publicación:
2021
Palabras clave:

verbal infection; grammatical categories; morpheme segmentation; verbal paradigms; infectional structure


Resumen:

The infectional structure of the Spanish verb is complex due to the confuence of several grammatical categories: tense, aspect and mood on the one hand, number and person on the other. Spanish, however, is not a language with concatenative infectional morphology and does not present specifc morphemes for each of these categories. Because of this, there are mismatches between the semantic categories and the morphs that represent them; in other words, there is less phonological material than semantic categories. This problem means that segmentation in morphemes is not systematic and that there are various ways to analyse the structure of the verbal word, depending on the analytical model or the methodological posture assumed. In this chapter I will show, briefy, the problems that come with segmentation into morphemes, the most common generalizations that have been found and the diferent solutions proposed. Also, after careful analysis of the behaviour of verbal paradigms, I will propose a split of the tenses according to the way of representing grammatical categories in infectional morphemes: on the one hand, tenses where a homogeneous and diferentiated segmentation of infectional marks is possible; on the other, those where it is not possible to segment those categories. This analysis allows identifcation of the regularities that exist in verbal infection and explains, to some extent, the exceptions.


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