Autonomous Morphology in Diachrony:

comparative evidence from the Romance languages


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Paul

Paul O'Neill

Research Student







Linacre College

paul.oneill [at] linacre.ox.ac.uk


Paul completed his undergraduate degree in Classics and Spanish at the University of Oxford (Brasenose College) before moving to Madrid to carry out the Spanish equivalent of a MPhil in Lingüística Teórica y sus Aplicaciones at the Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset affiliated to the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He wrote his MPhil thesis on the phonetics of the Andalusian variety of Spanish, concentrating specifically on the phonetic realisations of the sibilant /s/ in syllable final position and its phonological and morphological consequences. He is now back at Oxford (Linacre College) having been awarded a full grant from the AHRC in collaboration with a major Research Project entitled “Autonomous Morphology in Diachrony: comparative evidence from Romance Languages”. His research for his DPhil is primarily concerned with verbal stem allomorphy in the languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Portuguese, Galician, Asturian, Castilian, Aragonese, Catalan) from both a synchronic and diachronic point of view.

Amongst other things Paul has been the Co-editor of Cuadernos de Lingüística del Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Volume 11 (2004). He is also a researcher and collaborator in the Eastern Andalusian Spanish division of the AMPER Project (Atlas Multimedia de la Prosodia del Espacio Románico), a project concerning the intonation of the Romance languages.

Paul is also an associated member to the Centre de Dialectologie de l'Université Stendhal-Grenoble, The Philological Society, The Anglo-Catalan Society and La Sociedad Española de Lingüística.

 

Publications

Book Contributions

Pau O'Neill (to appear) 'Morphomes, Morphemes and Morphological Segmentation: Evidence from Ibero-Romance' in Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. Goldbach et al. (eds).

Paul O'Neill (to appear) 'Morfomos y morfemes nel asturianu' in Llingüística Asturiana: homenaxe a Xosé Lluis García Arias. Acaddemia de la Llingua Asturiana. (Title of book to be confirmed).

Maiden Martin & Paul O’Neill (2010) 'On morphomic defectiveness: evidence from the Romance languages of the Iberian peninsula'. In M. Baerman (ed.) Defective Paradigms. Londra: British Academy/OUP, pp. 103-24.

Maiden Martin, Paul O'Neill & Andrew Swearingen (2009) 'Imperative Morphology in Diachrony: evidence from the Romance languages'. In M. Dufresne, F. Dupuis and E. Vocaj (eds) Historical Linguistics 2007. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 99-108.

Pamies A., Mari Cruz Amorós & Paul O'Neill (2007) 'Esquemas entonativos declarativos en el habla de Almería'. In Dorta, J. (Ed.), La prosodía en el ámbito lingüístico románico, 299-311.


Conference Proceedings

O'Neill (2006) 'La resolución del elemento sibilante en el andaluz'. In Actas del V Congreso Andaluz de Lingüística General. Homenaje al Molina Redondo.


Journal Articles

Paul O'Neill (2009) 'S-Aspiration and Occlusives in Andalusian Spanish: Phonetics or Phonology?'. Oxford Working Papers in Linguistics 12: 73-85.

O'Neill (2009) 'La fonación murmurada y la preaspiración en andaluz'. Experimental Prosody. Special Issue (2) of Language Design.

Pamies A, Mari Cruz Amorós & Paul O'Neill (2009) 'Esquemas entonativos de frase declarativa en el habla de Jaén.' Language Design 8.

O'Neill (2009) 'El pretérito y tiempos averaos nel Dominiu Llingüísticu Ástur: formes diferentes pero non dixebraes'. Lletres Asturianes, 100: 27-41.

O’Neill (2005) 'Final /s/ in Western Andalusian Spanish: the phonetic neutralization of a phonological contrast'. Language design. University of Granada.

Conference Papers

Oct. 2010 'Morphomes and morphosyntactic features'. Paper presentedt at OxMorph 2, University of Oxford, Oxford 8-10/10/2010.

Feb. 2009 'Mind the Gap: defectivity in the verbal paradigm. A corpus based account'. Presented at the Language Research Seminar, University of Liverpool, U.K.

Sept. 2009  ‘La evolución del pretérito débil en el Ibero-Romance’ To be presented at the VIII Congreso de la Lengua Española, Santiago de Compostella, Spain.

March. 2009  ‘What do they speak in the South of Spain? Spanish? Andalusian Spanish? Just Andaluz’. Presented at the SOCLAS Romance Linguistics Seminar, University of Liverpool, U.K.

Feb. 2009 ‘Mind the Gap: defectivity in the verbal paradigm. A corpus based account’. Presented at the Language Research Seminar, University of Liverpool, U.K.

Nov. 2008  ‘Los verbos defectivos en el Ibero-Romance’. To be presented with Martin Maiden at the XIII Forum of Iberian Studies.

Nov. 2008  ‘El pretérito y tiempos afines en el dominio lingüístico astur: formas comunes pero una evolución diferente.’ To be presented at the Conceyu Internacional de la Llingua Asturiana.

Aug. 2008  ‘Morphomes, Morphemes and Morphological Segmentation: Evidence from Ibero-Romance’. To be presented at the XXX Oxford, U.K.

May 2008  ‘The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the Morphome in Ibero-Romance’ Presented at the Oxford Romance Linguistic Seminar, Oxford, U.K.

April 2008  ‘On Morphomic Defectiveness’. Presented with Martin Maiden at the ‘Defective Paradigms Workshop’ at the British Academy, London, U.K.

April 2008  ‘El origen y propagación del diptongo [je] en el pretérito y tiempos afines’. Presented at the VIII Congreso Nacional del AJHILE, Barcelona, Spain.

Feb 2008  ‘La fonética de la /s/ implosiva andaluza en el interior de palabra’. Presented at the IV Conferencia de Fonética Experimental, Granda, Spain.

Feb 2008  ‘Esquemas entonativos de frase declarativa en el habla de Jaén’. Presented with Antonio Pamiés and Mari Cruz Amorós at the IV Conferencia de Fonética Experimental, Granda, Spain

Jan 2008  ‘The Development of the Castilain Desinences for ‘el pretérito y tiempos afines’ a Comparative View from Ibero-Romance.’

Aug. 2007  ‘Imperative Morphology in Diachrony: evidence from the Romance languages’. Presented with Martin Maiden and Andrew Swearingen at the XVIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, Canada.

Dec. 2006  ‘La diptongación como un proceso morfológico’. Presented at the 36 Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Madrid, Spain.

Dec. 2004  ‘La resolución del elemento sibilante en el andaluz’. Presented at the V Congreso Andaluz de Lingüística General. Homenaje al Molina Redondo.


 

 

 

 

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