Ricorsività e paradigmi verbali nel sardo contemporaneo

This paper describes the role of recursion in the grammaticalisation and analogy phenomena underlying the genesis of some modern Sardinian verbal paradigms. My data show peculiar morphological features, including: (i) the formation of analogical past participles; (ii) new affixes generated by reanalysis; (iii) forms of the third plural person of the simple present of the verb ‘be’ with gender marks; (iv) the spreading of the third plural mark to the infinitive of ‘be’ whenever such infinitive is found in a future verbal periphrasis; (v) constructions with overcompound tenses opacified by restricted syntagmatic conditions. All these phenomena have been documented and carefully described through the field work carried out in the last decades.