Background
Rini, Joel was born on December 4, 1957 in Cleveland. Son of Joseph Charles and Virginia Ann Rini.
(After a brief survey of the perception of morphological c...)
After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult problems of Spanish historical grammar and explores the extent to which various types of morphological processes may have operated in a given change. Selected problems are examined in light of abundant textual evidence. Some include: the resistance to change of Sp. dormir ‘to sleep’, morir ‘to die’, the vocalic sequence /ee/, the reduction of the OSp. verbal suffixes -ades, -edes, -ides, -odes, and the uncertain origin of Sp. eres ‘you are’. Important notions such as the directionality of leveling, phonological vs. morphological change in the nominal and verbal paradigms, the morphological spread of sound change, and the role of morphological factors in apparent syntactic change are discussed.
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Rini, Joel was born on December 4, 1957 in Cleveland. Son of Joseph Charles and Virginia Ann Rini.
Bachelor of Science in Education, Kent State University, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1987.
Assistant professor Spanish linguistics University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1987—1993, associate professor Spanish linguistics, 1993—2000, professor Spanish linguistics, since 2000, chairman Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, 1998—2004.
(After a brief survey of the perception of morphological c...)
Married Pamela Jean De Vries. Children: Christopher Michael, Marcus Joel.