Paradigm Change

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In the Transeurasian languages and beyond

Martine Robbeets Walter Bisang(Editor)

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Published on 8. October 2014

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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
1. Introduction
2. The argument for reconstructing [RTR] harmony in KMT
2.1 Vowel harmony in languages deemed Altaic
2.2 Basic vowel correspondences in Tungusic, Mongolic, and Korean
2.3 PH to- RTRH Shifts in Mongolic and Korean?
2.4 Reconstructing a harmonic contrast for proto-Altaic
3. A non-argument for secondary [RTR] harmony in proto-Tungusic
3.1 Starostin et al. (2003: 156-163)
3.2 Starostin et al.'s hypothesized stem-internal co-occurrence constraints
3.3 Failures of the stipulations
3.4 Superficially successful predictions of "front" ([NonRTR]) vocalism
3.5 The Distribution of Starostin et al.'s proto-Tungusic *ü
4. [RTR] harmony as an inherited feature
5. [RTR] harmony as an areal feature
5.1 RTR/height harmony in NE Asia outside KTM
5.2 The behavior of TRH in contact
5.3 Reconciling the Korean vowels
6. Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Chapter 8. Old Japanese bigrade paradigms and Korean passives and causatives
1. Introduction
2. Internal reconstruction
2.1 Whitman's theory
2.2 Frellesvig's theory
2.3 Monosyllabic roots
3. Bigrade verbs as early passives and inchoatives
3.1 Causatives and -s-
3.2 LB monosyllables other than e- 'get, be able'
4. Implications for proto-Korean-Japanese and Transeurasian
Abbreviations
Languages
Verb paradigms
Other
Terminology
References
Chapter 9. The Japanese inflectional paradigm in a Transeurasian perspective
1. Introduction
2. The importance of paradigms in establishing relatedness
2.1 Paradigm and paradigmaticity
2.2 Inherited paradigms
2.3 Copied paradigms
2.4 Coincidentally matching paradigms
3. The basic inflectional paradigm of Japanese verbs in a comparative perspective
3.1 The copula pTEA *a- as the origin of the mizenkei or surface-stem
3.2 The nominalizer pTEA *-rA as the origin of the rentaikei (adnominal form)
3.3 The substantivized adnominal pTEA *-rA-i as the origin of the izenkei (subjunctive form)
3.4 The nominalizer pTEA *-mA as the origin of the shushikei (finite indicative form)
3.5 The nominalizer pTEA *-i ~ ø as the origin of the renyokei (conjunctive form)
3.6 The Transeurasian zero imperative as the origin of the meireikei (imperative form)
4. Paradigmaticity of the evidence
4.1 Is the evidence paradigmatic?
4.2 Are the paradigms copied?
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
Linguistic forms
Languages
Primary sources
References
Part III. The innovation of paradigms
Chapter 10. A Yakut copy of a Tungusic viewpoint aspect paradigm
1. Introduction
2. Two imperfect paradigms
3. Viewpoint aspect categories
4. Intraterminals
5. Past intraterminals
6. Explanations
7. Possible carry-over influence
8. Reasons for copying
Abbreviations
References
Chapter 11. Amdo Altaic directives and comparatives based on the verb 'to see'
1. Introduction
2. Inherited case inventories
3. New markers based on the verb 'to see'
3.1 Convergence of the new Monguor markers: -?´i and -?´i?´i
3.2 Allatives/directives based on the verb 'to see'
3.3 Comparatives based on the verb 'to see'
4. Conclusion
Abbreviations
Nonstandard symbols
References
Chapter 12. Innovations and archaisms in Siberian Turkic spatial case paradigms
1. Introductory remarks
2. Siberian Turkic case paradigms: An overview
3. Case studies: Static Dative
3.1 The Locative case
3.2 The Dative case
3.3 The "static" Dative in Tuvan
3.4 The "static" Dative in Shor
3.5 The "static" Dative in Tofa
3.6 The "static" Dative in Altay
3.7 Discussion of the "static Dative" data
4. Siberian Turkic new and old Directives
4.1 The Directive case in Old Turkic
4.2 The Directive case in modern languages
4.3 Directive postpositions in Altay
4.4 Directive meaning in Tuvan
4.5 Comparative analysis
5. Case studies: New and old Prolatives
5.1 The Equative-Prolative case marker
5.2 Other expressions for the space one moves through
5.3 Prolative semantics of the Instrumental case
6. Locative and Ablative to Partitive in Siberian Turkic
6.1 The Yakut Partitive case marker -DA
6.2 Partitive semantics in other South Siberian languages
6.3 Innovation or preservation?
6.4 Partitive location
7. Dative to Locative in Yakut
8. Discussion and conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Chapter 13. Paradigm copying in Tungusic
1. Introduction
2. Known paradigm copies: Ucur Evenki and Lamunkhin Even
3. Factors facilitating paradigm copying: a survey of Evenki and Even dialects
3.1 Degree of contact: Presence of lexical copies
3.2 Degree of contact: Intermarriage
3.3 Structural congruence between lects in contact
4. Sakha TAM morphology and its role in paradigm copying
5. Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Chapter 14. Ural-Altaic
1. Conceptualizing Ural-Altaic
2. Verifying linguistic relationships
3. Nominal morphology in Ural-Altaic typology
4. Factors underlying morphological similarities
5. Parallels in Ural-Altaic nominal morphology
5.1 Plural *T
5.2 Plural *s
5.3 Genitive *n
5.4 Accusative *i and *g
5.5 Accusative *BV
5.6 Locative *TV
5.7 Locative *nV
5.8 Dative *k(V) and *A
5.9 Nominative *Ka
5.10 Nominative *ki
6. General conclusions concerning Ural-Altaic
A note on the sources
Abbreviations
References
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