Root, Thematic Vowels and Inflectional Exponents in Verbs: A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Author Response
We are revised English resorting to a colleague, native speaker
We have clarified and increased the discussion on the thematic vowel literature (p. 4)
Reviewer 2 Report
The paper discusses the interplay between thematic vowels and agreement morphology in Romance and pursues an analysis, in which all morphological elements have interpretative content.
To this end, it might be useful to look at recent work by Kastner & Martin on French /https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346565211_Dissolving_the_French_conjugation_classes)
I was puzzled by the fact that Oltra-Massuet's work, see also her 2020 contribution on conjugation classes in the oxford research encyclopedia of linguistics, was not mentioned by the authors, as it is one important attempt to deal with thematic vowels in distributed morphology.
The paper is dense and would benefit from some pointers as to what the main issues are and how this paper offers a novel view of thematic vowels. In parts it is also hard to read for researchers not familiar with Manzini and Savoia's earlier work, on which several arguments are based. For instance, it is not clear why the thematic vowel is a nominalizer.
Author Response
We have revised English resorting to a colleague, native speaker
We have carefully checked the indications of the reviewer and have introduced on p. 4 the discussion on suggested authors, which we introduced in bibliography
