From syntagmatic to paradigmatic spatial zeroes: the loss of the preposition se in inner Asia Minor Greek


Autoria(s): Karatsareas, P.; Georgakopoulos, T.
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15/06/2016

Resumo

We trace the diachronic development of the preposition se in inner Asia Minor Greek from its use to mark a range of spatial functions to its ultimate loss and replacement by zero. We propose that, before spreading to all syntactic and semantic contexts, zero marking was contextually-dependent on the presence/absence of a prenominal genitive modifying the head noun of Ground-encoding NPs and on the presence/absence of Region-encoding postpositions. We attribute these developments to an informational load relief strategy aimed at producing more economical utterances as well as to language contact with Turkish, which favoured structural convergence on the adpositional level between the two languages.

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http://westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk/16468/1/From%2520syntagmatic%2520to%2520paradigmatic%2520spatial%2520zeroes%253A%2520the%2520loss%2520of%2520the%2520preposition%2520se%2520in%2520inner%2520Asia%2520Minor%2520Greek.pdf

http://westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk/16468/2/From%2520syntagmatic%2520to%2520paradigmatic%2520spatial%2520zeroes%253A%2520the%2520loss%2520of%2520the%2520preposition%2520se%2520in%2520inner%2520Asia%2520Minor%2520Greek.pdf

Karatsareas, P. and Georgakopoulos, T. (2016) From syntagmatic to paradigmatic spatial zeroes: the loss of the preposition se in inner Asia Minor Greek. STUF – Language Typology and Universals, 69 (2). 309–340. ISSN 2196-7148

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De Grutyer

Relação

http://westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk/16468/

https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2016-0014

10.1515/stuf-2016-0014

Palavras-Chave #Social Sciences and Humanities
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Article

PeerReviewed

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en

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