Las formas reducidas de facĕre en el noroeste de la península ibérica. Convergencia y divergencia geolingüísticas
ISSN: 2663-9815
Year of publication: 2021
Issue Title: The interlinguistic space in the Romance continuum: convergences and divergences between the Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance areas
Issue: 6
Pages: 163-191
Type: Article
More publications in: Studia linguistica romanica
Abstract
Asturian, Galician as well as some dialects of Northeast Portuguese characteristically present the root fa- in the 2SG, 3SG and 3PL of the present of indicative and in the 2SG of the imper-ative of the verb facer/fazer/faer/fer. These forms also appear in the same persons of the present ofindicative of Aragonese and Catalan (although not in the 2SG of their Imperative). This paper takesthe stance that all these forms have a common origin in an Italo-Gallic variety of vulgar Latin. To explain their dispersion in the verbal paradigm, the notion of morphome is used. The contribution shows how history (in this case, linguistic and geographical contact) can help us to identify a possible diachronic explanation.