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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2009  
         
  Article:   LA THÉORIE DES COGNÈMES ET LES LANGUES ROMANES: L’ALTERNANCE I / A DANS LES MICROSYSTÈMES GRAMMATICAUX DE L’ESPAGNOL ET DE L’ITALIEN / THE COGNEMES THEORY AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES: THE „I/A” ALTERNATION IN THE GRAMMATICAL SYSTEMS OF SPANISH AND ITALIAN.

Authors:  DIDIER BOTTINEAU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  According to the Theory of Cognemes, in many typologically unrelated natural languages, the phonological form of grammatical morphemes is symptomatic of semantic dynamic processes executed by the interpreter in the course of meaning construction: the core value of the signified is structurally related with the sensitive experience of the articulatory gesture mobilized on the side of the signifier. This case study presents the role and workings of the i/a alternation in Spanish and Italian in several grammatical systems: adverbs of spatial location aquí / qui, acá / qua, allí / lì, allá / là and prepositions (Italian di et da).

Keywords: cognemes, meaning construction, Romance languages, vowel alternation. 		 
         
     
         
         
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