The paper deals with the irregular morphology in Italian perfect and past participle forms. In these forms, one observes a correlation between presence vs. absence of regular morphology and presence vs. absence of thematic vowels. The paper argues that athematic forms undergo a special operation… read more
Many Italian verbs display complex alternations involving regular/irregular stem forms in the simple past tense, the so-called Passato Remoto. Vogel (1994), Pirelli and Battista (2000), Maiden (2005, 2010) among many others, including traditional neo-grammarian and structuralist accounts, assume… read more