Epenthesis in Old French
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique
- Vol. 23 (1-2) , 66-83
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100008719
Abstract
This paper is structured in the following way: first, certain alternations involving consonantal insertion will be examined in order to motivate a synchronic epenthesis rule for Old French (OF) phonology. After details of this rule and some of its relationships with other rules are fixed, an interesting set of historical changes involving restructuring, analogy, and rule ordering will be investigated in an effort to clarify several complicated interactions between phonological and morphological factors in the evolution of the OF verb system.Keywords
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