From syntagmatic to paradigmatic spatial zeroes: The loss of the prepositionsein inner Asia Minor Greek
| Autor: | Thanasis Georgakopoulos, Petros Karatsareas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Syntagmatic analysis Communication Turkish business.industry Minor (linear algebra) 06 humanities and the arts Inner Asia Trace (linguistics) language.human_language Linguistics Zero (linguistics) 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Genitive case Geography 0602 languages and literature Language contact language 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 69:309-340 |
| ISSN: | 2196-7148 1867-8319 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/stuf-2016-0014 |
| Popis: | We trace the diachronic development of the prepositionsein inner Asia Minor Greek from its use to mark a range of spatial functions to its ultimate loss and replacement by zero. We propose that, before spreading to all syntactic and semantic contexts, zero-marking was contextually-dependent on the presence/absence of a prenominal genitive modifying the head noun of Ground-encoding NPs and on the presence/absence of Region-encoding postpositions. We attribute these developments to an informational load relief strategy aimed at producing more economical utterances, as well as to language contact with Turkish, which favored structural convergence on the adpositional level between the two languages. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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