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Targets and paradigmatic borrowing in Romantsch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

John Haiman
John Haiman*
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Australian National University
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Abstract

Recent work in generative grammar has demonstrated the relationship between surface structure constraints and transformational rules. In some cases, various unrelated rules have been found to interact, and, in so doing, to satisfy a given constraint, characterized as a target.

Evidence is presented that Vallader, a Romantsch dialect, has a phonological target, realized by a number of rules, some peculiar to that dialect. In addition, Vallader shares a syntactic deletion rule with the other Romantsch dialects. In order to satisfy both of these conditions at once, Vallader has resorted to paradigmatic borrowing for one form of the present indicative.

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Language , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , December 1971, pp. 797 - 809
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Copyright © 1971 by Linguistic Society of America

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