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Morphologization, morphological change, and demorphologization

Henning Andersen

The presentation will offer a moderately systematic overview of types of change in inflectional morphology and highlight a few topics in this field, illustrating the importance of an analytical approach both to morphology and to the conceptual tools with which it is investigated.
1. Grammaticalization and grammatical change.
2. Morphology. (i) Synchrony and diachrony. (ii) Syntax and morphosyntax. (iii) Morphological signs. (iv) 'Morphological processes'. (v) Change: Reanalysis, extension and curtailment. Metanalysis, univerbation. Gradualness and order.
3.1. Morphologization. (i) Morphologization from syntax. (ii) The contingency of morphosyntactic and expression changes. (iii) Morphologization from below. (iv) Grammaticalization of indexes.
3.2. Change in inflectional morphology. (i) Paradigm elaboration, simplification. (ii) New synthetic combinations. (iii) Typological drift. (iv) Expressions: differentiation vs. syncretism vs. homonymy. (v) Grammatical indexes.
3.3. Demorphologization. (i) Morphosyntactic emancipation, host change. (ii) Degrammation: loss of inflectional categories. (iii) Regrammation. (v) Typological shift.

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