On Interpreting Morphological Change

On Interpreting Morphological Change
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9789004674509
ISBN-13 : 9004674500
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Book Synopsis On Interpreting Morphological Change by : Roger D Woodard

Download or read book On Interpreting Morphological Change written by Roger D Woodard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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