Comparative and Dialectal Approaches to Analogy

Xavier Bach is Associate Professor of Morphology and its Interface with Syntax at the Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, and a researcher in the CNRS research laboratory CLLE (Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie). He works on inflectional typology, particularly on inflection classes and non-canonical phenomena such as suppletion and heteroclisis, as well as gender, periphrasis, and negation. He specializes in (Gallo)-Romance varieties, as well as in Austronesian languages of West Papua.Louise Esher is a CNRS researcher based at LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique). Their research focuses on the relationships between inflectional change and the holistic structure of inflectional systems, with particular attention to analogical change and autonomous morphology. Louise is co-editor of the Manuel de linguistique occitane (with Jean Sibille; De Gruyter, 2024) and has contributed to works including The Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Linguistics and The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics.Sascha Gaglia is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. He works on morpho-phonological, syntactic, and pragmatic phenomena from both a diachronic and synchronic perspective, with a particular interest in clitics, politeness, and paradigmatic analogy. While his main language focus is on Italian and Italian dialects, he has also published work on French, Spanish, and Rhaeto-Romance.

• 1: Xavier Bach;Louise Esher;Sascha Gaglia: Introduction: Studying variation and change in inflectional analogy PART I Inflectional patterns and their interaction 2: Martin Maiden: Contamination as a cause of abnormal inflexion-class changes in 'Alpine' Romance, and what it tells us about word structure 3: Xavier Bach: Additive analogy maximizes left-edge identity of roots in Romance 4: Judith Meinschaefer: Analogical extension of stress patterns in artificial language learning PART II Directionality and frequency effects 5: Hans-Olav Enger: Modal verbs in Norwegian (and Swedish): Between analogical regularization and analogical irregularization? 6: Franck Floricic: The verbs dire 'say' and venire 'come' as 'leader words' in Italo-Romance 7: Louise Esher: Productive identities spanning recurrent partials and whole word forms PART III Processes and representations of analogy 8: Eugen Hill: Morphological analogy as whole-word replacement: Revisiting the counterevidence 9: Marc-Olivier Hinzelin: Take-over as analogical change in the creation and avoidance of syncretism and homonymy 10: John Charles Smith: Overabundance as an epiphenomenon: Competing forms or competing paradigms? 11: Erich Round: Morphomes, models, emergence, and the mind