Reanalysis and beyond - topics in the development of Baltic inflection

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knygos dalis / Part of the book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Reanalysis and beyond - topics in the development of Baltic inflection
Authors:
Hill, Eugen
In the Book:
Contributions to morphology and syntax: proceedings of the Fourth Greifswald University Conference on Baltic Languages. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2015. P. 273-299
Subject Category:
LT
Baltų kalbos / Baltic languages; Morfologija / Morphology; Žodžių kaityba / Inflection.
Summary / Abstract:

ENAuthor of the article hopes to demonstrate that reorganisations we occasionally observe in inflectional patterns of natural languages are caused not by universal properties of human cognition but rather by structural influence of other inflectional patterns. In most cases, these model patterns can be identified within the grammar of the language in question. However, in several securely established cases a suitable model can be found only in the linguistic neighbourhood of a language. The concept of contact-induced reanalysis in inflectional patterns has the potential to satisfactorily resolve several old problems in the historical morphology of Bailtic languages.

ISBN:
9783832537524
Subject:
Kalbotyra / Linguistics
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2020-04-04 06:34:08
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