Replication data for: The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity ...
North Saami is replacing the use of possessive suffixes on nouns with a morphologically simpler analytic construction. Our data (>2K examples culled from >.5M words) track this change through three generations and parameters of semantics, syntax, and geography. Intense contact pressure on this...
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ftdatacite:10.18710/4xtxmh 2023-11-05T03:44:47+01:00 Replication data for: The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity ... Janda, Laura A. Antonsen, Lene 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.18710/4xtxmh https://dataverse.no/citation?persistentId=doi:10.18710/4XTXMH unknown DataverseNO Dataset dataset 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.18710/4xtxmh 2023-10-09T11:09:14Z North Saami is replacing the use of possessive suffixes on nouns with a morphologically simpler analytic construction. Our data (>2K examples culled from >.5M words) track this change through three generations and parameters of semantics, syntax, and geography. Intense contact pressure on this minority language probably promotes morphological simplification, yielding an advantage for the innovative construction. The innovative construction is additionally advantaged because it has a wider syntactic and semantic range and is indispensable, whereas its competitor can always be replaced. The one environment where the possessive suffix is most strongly retained even in the youngest generation is in the Nominative singular case, and here we find evidence that the possessive suffix is being reinterpreted as a vocative case marker. The files make it possible to see all of our data and to do the statistical analysis and plots in R. ... Dataset saami DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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North Saami is replacing the use of possessive suffixes on nouns with a morphologically simpler analytic construction. Our data (>2K examples culled from >.5M words) track this change through three generations and parameters of semantics, syntax, and geography. Intense contact pressure on this minority language probably promotes morphological simplification, yielding an advantage for the innovative construction. The innovative construction is additionally advantaged because it has a wider syntactic and semantic range and is indispensable, whereas its competitor can always be replaced. The one environment where the possessive suffix is most strongly retained even in the youngest generation is in the Nominative singular case, and here we find evidence that the possessive suffix is being reinterpreted as a vocative case marker. The files make it possible to see all of our data and to do the statistical analysis and plots in R. ... |
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Replication data for: The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity ... |
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Replication data for: The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity ... |
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