Normativity and transgression in the paradigmatic distribution of verbal romance suppletion

Vol.39,No.1(2018)

Abstract
The apparently irregular structure of verbal suppletive paradigms in Romance languages reveals in fact a well-established logic in the speakers' language behaviour that has been preserved with uniformity over time and space. Since the introduction of the concept of "morphome" (Aronoff 1994), it has been possible to assess these so-called anomalies as a central phenomenon both in the natural diachronic evolution and in the continuous reorganization of verbal paradigms realized by the speakers. Nevertheless, one of the main difficulties of such a perspective when applied to Romance languages stands in the impossibility of making absolute abstractions of general principles that are at the base of these distributions in verbal paradigms. However, it is possible to deal appropriately with this kind of problems, albeit not definitely solve them, if the research into this issue refers to theories, past and present, about the concept of "linguistic norm", where Romance verbal morphomes can be described as an expression of the freedom in a language system.

Keywords:
suppletion; ŕomance verb; morpheme; verbal paradigm; linguistic norm

Pages:
79–93
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