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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460184903321

Titolo

Paradigm change : in the Transeurasian languages and beyond / / edited by Martine Robbeets, Walter Bisang ; contributors, Éva Á. Csató [and fifteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-272-6973-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

Studies in Language Companion Series, , 0165-7763 ; ; Volume 161

Disciplina

414/.01

Soggetti

Paradigm (Linguistics)

Altaic languages - Morphology

Altaic languages - Verb

Comparative linguistics - Eurasia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Paradigm Change; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of tables ; List of figures ; List of contributors ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1. When paradigms change ; 1. Changing research paradigms ; 1.1 Paradigm change in Transeurasian linguistics ; 1.2 Paradigm change in comparative historical morphology ; 2. Change in morphological paradigms ; 2.1 Definitions ; 2.2 Changes in paradigms and their stability ; 3. The organization of this volume ; References ; Part I. Paradigm change ; Chapter 2. On the strength of morphological paradigms

1. Introduction - the basic idea of this paper 2. Radical pro-drop - a comparison of West Africa and East and mainland Southeast Asia ; 2.1 West African languages ; 2.2 East and mainland Southeast Asian languages ; 3. Radical pro-drop and morphology from a theoretical perspective ; 4. Radical pro-drop and the strength of morphological paradigms ; 4.1 On frequency and the diffusion of language change ; 4.2 Inflectional paradigms in Niger-Congo and the absence of radical



pro-drop ; 4.3 East and mainland Southeast Asian languages and the lack of morphological paradigms

4.4 Factors that prevent the development of morphological paradigms at later stages 5. Conclusion ; Abbreviations ; References ; Chapter 3. Derivational paradigms in diachrony and comparison ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Wordlists and language sample ; 3. The causative alternation: Subgrouping ; 4. Posture verbs: Subgrouping ; 5. External comparison ; 5.1 Theoretical issues ; 5.2 A combined grammatical tree ; 5.3 Derivational type and lexical stability ; 6. Conclusions ; References ; Chapter 4. On arguing from diachrony for paradigms ; 1. Introduction ; 2. What is a paradigm?

3. Some non-evidence from language change 4. Positive evidence for paradigms from analogical change ; 5. An extended sense of 'Paradigm' and its value here ; 6. Conclusion - A cautionary note with further positive indications for the paradigm ; Abbreviations ; References ; Chapter 5. Reconstructing the Niger-Congo Verb Extension Paradigm ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Niger-Congo verb extensions ; 3. Verb extensions in Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and "Khoisan" ; 4. Renewed and borrowed extensions ; 5. Extension stacking ; 6. Verb extensions in Bantoid ; 7. Summary and conclusion ; Abbreviations

Languages Linguistic forms ; References ; Appendix: Table of Verb Extensions in Bantoid ; Part II. The continuation of paradigms; Chapter 6. Perceived formal and functional equivalence ; 1. Indirect insertion of West Old Turkic verb stems in Late Ancient Hungarian ; 2. Hungarian verbal conjugational paradigms ; 3. The cuckoo's nest: The ik-conjugation ; 4. Copied Turkic verbs in the ik-conjugation (Róna-Tas & Berta 2011) ; 5. The Turkic deverbal suffixes -(V)g and -(V)k ; 6. The Hungarian reflexive verbs ; 7. Carry over ; Abbreviation ; References

Chapter 7. Comparative consequences of the tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean

Sommario/riassunto

The paper reviews the data concerning the nominal inflectional morphology in the chain of languages comprising Uralic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic, collectively termed "Ural-Altaic". Although nominal morphology has traditionally been quoted in support of the hypothesis concerning the genetic relationship of these languages, a more detailed survey of the data shows that the extant parallels are in various ways secondary and/or accidental. This suggests that Ural-Altaic is an areal and typological complex of languages, but not a genetic entity. On the other hand, it is also