Hermit Crabs: Formal Renewal of Morphology by Phonologically Mediated Affix Substitution  

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Heath, Jeffrey

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 74 no. 4 (1998), page 728-759.
Fulltext: Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 728-759.pdf (4.51MB)

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A grammatical affix undergoing phonetic erosion is sometimes abruptly replaced by a conven- iently available lexical stem with which it shares one or more phonological segments. The new affix has the phonological shape of the old independent stem, but acquires the basic grammatical function of the old affix, though it may also bring in a portion of the stem's own morphological and semantic idiosyncrasies. Because the old affixal form is eliminated, the historical process can easily be misdiagnosed as reflecting the gradual compression of an original syntactic construc- tion which includes the relevant independent stem. Recognition of the system-renewing element in this particular type of stem-to-affix grammaticalization leads to awareness of the pivotal role of the inherited system in grammaticalizations, and to a general critique of historical models which see grammaticalization as a straightforward syntax-to-morphology compression.*

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