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Morphological change and paradigmatic structure
Jens Nørgård-Sørensen
In this presentation I will present a model for morphological analysis in terms of paradigmatic structure and provide examples of reanalyses whereby morphological paradigms are introduced or restructured. The point of departure will be a number of examples from Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, some of them well-known from the literature on historical linguistics, others only known to specialists.
Key concepts that will be introduced, defined and commented on in connection with the examples are - besides morphology - grammatical distinction (grammaticality), paradigm, reanalysis, markedness and productivity. I will argue that these concepts are all substantial in a description of morphology and morphological change and, indeed, grammatical change in general.
The examples to be discussed illustrate (i) transformation from a case distinction to a lexical-grammatical distinction (formation of Italian adverbs on -mente), (ii) morphologization of a regular sound distinction (Old High German Umlaut), (iii) morphologization of a lexical-derivational distinction (number of Russian nouns denoting young ones of animals) and (iv) remorphologization by resegmentation (Russian verbal suffix -iva-).
The talk introduces a view on grammaticalization as paradigmatization that will be followed up in the presentations by Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler on word order and constructions.
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Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens 2008. "Grammaticalisation waves: The Russian subjunctive mood and person/number marking:" Seoane, Elena & María José López-Couso (eds.), Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization (Typological Studies in Language). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins 2008, 253-68.