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Paradigmatic dependencies in Semitic and Romance Maltese verbal paradigms

Discussions on the integration of non-Semitic verbs in the inflectional verbal paradigm of (Semitic) Maltese highlights what Owens (2010) refers to as the ‘miracle paradigm’, with which he illustrates the stability of the inflectional paradigm in Semitic. Discussions in Mifsud (1995) and Hoberman & Aronoff (2003) have illustrated how the Romance are vs. ere/ire inflectional class distinction was redundantly maintained when these loan verbs integrated in the Semitic Maltese inflectional pattern, such that the morphological integration was not random. We here provide another set of data illustrating how the are vs. ere/ire inflectional class split is disrupted and not maintained at times, in the Imperfective verbal sub-paradigm. We observe that when this is the case, the distinct behaviours that result out of the inflectional pattern employed, correlate with argument-structure alternations.