Ordering towards disorder
Abstract In Athabascan languages, verbal morphological structure does not follow the cross-linguistically more common and stable ‘layered’ order: derivational and lexical affixes are not necessarily closer to the stem than inflectional affixes. While the emergence of the Athabascan order is understa...
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crjohnbenjaminsp:10.1075/sl.19030.den 2024-06-09T07:44:36+00:00 Ordering towards disorder Explaining the stability of non-layered morpheme structure in Athabascan languages Denk, Lukas 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.19030.den http://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/sl.19030.den.pdf en eng John Benjamins Publishing Company Studies in Language volume 43, issue 4, page 800-849 ISSN 0378-4177 1569-9978 journal-article 2019 crjohnbenjaminsp https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.19030.den 2024-05-15T13:26:45Z Abstract In Athabascan languages, verbal morphological structure does not follow the cross-linguistically more common and stable ‘layered’ order: derivational and lexical affixes are not necessarily closer to the stem than inflectional affixes. While the emergence of the Athabascan order is understandable through different layers of grammaticalization ( Mithun 2011 ), the question of why this order is relatively stable in the language family has not yet been satisfactorily answered. The distributional properties of cognate Athabascan morphemes reveal historical tendencies for fusion and reordering that suggest that affixes remain in or change their position depending on the semantic relevance to other affixes, not necessarily to the stem alone, as Bybee’s (1985) morphological theory would predict. An additional factor for the stability of non-layered structure of morphemes is the high degree of semantic generality found in affixes between the stem and other lexical and derivational affixes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Athabascan John Benjamins Publishing Company Mithun ENVELOPE(13.764,13.764,66.913,66.913) Studies in Language 43 4 800 849 |
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Abstract In Athabascan languages, verbal morphological structure does not follow the cross-linguistically more common and stable ‘layered’ order: derivational and lexical affixes are not necessarily closer to the stem than inflectional affixes. While the emergence of the Athabascan order is understandable through different layers of grammaticalization ( Mithun 2011 ), the question of why this order is relatively stable in the language family has not yet been satisfactorily answered. The distributional properties of cognate Athabascan morphemes reveal historical tendencies for fusion and reordering that suggest that affixes remain in or change their position depending on the semantic relevance to other affixes, not necessarily to the stem alone, as Bybee’s (1985) morphological theory would predict. An additional factor for the stability of non-layered structure of morphemes is the high degree of semantic generality found in affixes between the stem and other lexical and derivational affixes. |
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