From Fusion to Agglutination: The Case of Asia Minor Greek
Autor: | Anthi Revithiadou, Giorgos Markopoulos, Vassilios Spyropoulos |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
Agglutinative language Linguistics and Language History Turkish 06 humanities and the arts Language and Linguistics Linguistics language.human_language 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Vowel 0602 languages and literature Language contact Inflection language 0305 other medical science |
Zdroj: | Transactions of the Philological Society. 115:297-335 |
ISSN: | 0079-1636 |
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-968x.12091 |
Popis: | This article examines the nominal inflectional system of a group of Asia Minor Greek dialects (Dawkins 1910, 1916), which developed, in parallel with the fusional inflectional system, an agglutinative one due to language contact with Turkish. We argue that the ‘old’ fusional ending or the theme vowel was reanalyzed as part of the nominal stem. This novel structure was actualized by means of two competing options: in some dialects, the reanalysis was actualized transparently in all inflectional forms rendering an agglutinative pattern of inflection, whereas in dialects with limited agglutination the actualization took the form of a special type of vowel assimilation. More specifically, as part of the nominal stem, the ‘old’ theme vowel signals its merge with the root by allowing it to absorb some or all of its features. Formally, the phonological process is treated as an instance of indirect licensing (Walker 2011), according to which the theme vowel acts as a trigger due to its privileged position as a segment of the categorizer n, i.e. the head of the stem. |
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