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2021
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Slavic Morphosyntax is Primarily Determined by its Geographic Location and Contact Configuration
Ilja A. Seržant
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ABSTRACT This paper seeks to identify causal factors constraining the diachronic dynamics of particular morphosyntactic categories of Slavic. It is suggested that the modern inventory of Slavic languages is not a result of accumulation of historically accidental changes and non-changes. Instead, it is argued that macro-areal pressures constrained by the geographic location and the particular language-contact configuration determine the selection of inherited properties for either retention or loss and, subsequently, innovation. I primarily provide evidence from two categories: verbal person-number indexes (subject agreement markers) and partitivity markers and I also briefly discuss some other fusional categories.
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Ilja A. Seržant
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Informasi Jurnal
- Tahun Terbit
- 2021
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 11×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1080/00806765.2021.1901244
- Akses
- Open Access ✓