A Reconsideration and Elaboration of a Previously Proposed Hypothesis for the Origin of the —y of Spanish soy, doy, voy, estoy

Autor:	Joel Rini
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory media_common.quotation_subject Art Humanities Language and Linguistics Elaboration media_common
Zdroj:	Iberoromania. 2021:137-155
ISSN:	1865-9039 0019-0993
DOI:	10.1515/iber-2021-0010
Popis:	The origin of –y of Sp. soy, doy, voy, estoy remains unresolved to date. The present study reconsiders and elaborates the ‘post-verbal yo hypothesis’, originally proposed by Ford (1911), which has been rejected by most scholars because they have misunderstood it to suggest that the post-verbal subject pronoun yo became atonic and agglutinated to the verb, subsequently reducing to –y. It is suggested here that the phenomenon of ‘leftward palatal spreading’ from the post-verbal subject pronoun yo, with no agglutination nor reduction in form, first produced phonetic variants, e.g., so yo > ['soi̯-'yo], which were later morphologized and raised to allomorphic status before becoming full-fledged morphological variants upon extraction from the new syntagms, e.g., soy yo > soy (yo) > soy.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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