On Interpreting Morphological Change
Author | : Roger D Woodard |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2023-08-21 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9004674500 |
Download On Interpreting Morphological Change Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In classical Attic Greek of the fifth century B.C., there are found six distinct forms of the reflexive pronoun: one form for each of the three persons of the singular and of the plural. This morphologically elaborate system is eventually replaced, however, by one in which there is only a single reflexive pronominal stem (-auto- or its variant èuto-). In On Interpreting Morphological Change, Woodard traces the course of this linguistic development through a period of approxi-mately six cen-turies. An analysis of this pr-cess of morpho-logical replacement reveals that the change is motivated by morphological redundancy and is sensitive to a hierarchy of grammatical relations.