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  • Spanish Plural Formation: Apocope or Epenthesis?

  • Mario Saltarelli
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 46 / Issue 1 / March 1970
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 April 2026, pp. 89-96

  • This paper presents and motivates a novel ‘epenthesis’ theory of Spanish plural formation as opposed to a recently proposed ‘apocope’ theory. Whereas the apocope theory provides a lexical explanation adding to the complexity of the lexicon and adds a rule, the epenthesis theory provides a phonetic explanation of the phenomenon by generalizing the independently needed rule of prothesis without adding any new rules to the grammar. Simplicity considerations appear to support the epenthesis solution, synchronically as well as diachronically.

  • Mutation in Gaulish

  • Louis H. Gray
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 20 / Issue 4-Part1 / December 1944
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 April 2026, pp. 223-230

  • [Despite the paucity of material, and notwithstanding the conflicting evidence, it would appear that Gaulish possessed a system of mutation like that of the other Celtic languages; and that this system resembled the Brythonic rather than the Goidelic. Certain analogous phenomena occur in French (and Engadine); but whether these are Gaulish survivals is a question, rather, for Romance scholars.]

  • The Pitfalls of Polarity

  • E. A. Speiser
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 14 / Issue 3 / September 1938
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 April 2026, pp. 187-202

  • The term ‘polarity’ was adopted for linguistic purposes by Carl Meinhof, who introduced it in his comparative account of the Hamitic languages, published in 1912. Slow at first in gaining currency, this designation has steadily been increasing in popularity; today it stands for a widely recognized principle said to be operative alike in the Hamitic and Semitic languages.

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