Abstract
AbstractMost varieties of Occitan (Gallo‐Romance) present a synthetic future and conditional derived from Latin periphrases cantare habeo/habebam ‘I have/had to sing’, etc. In contrast to cognate forms in other Romance languages, and the expected pattern in Occitan, the future and conditional of many varieties do not invariably share a stem. In this study, I present a typology of cases of stem asymmetry between the future and conditional recorded in a linguistic atlas survey of the western Languedoc. I argue that asymmetry initially arises through regular sound change acting differentially on the future and conditional, and is later morphologised as a novel morphomic template for paradigmatic stem distribution.
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