Paradigm Change

In the Transeurasian languages and beyond

Editors

Martine Robbeets

| Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

Walter Bisang

| Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

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This book is concerned with comparing morphological paradigms between languages in order to establish areal and genealogical relationships. The languages in focus are the Transeurasian languages: Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages. World-eminent experts in diachronic morphology and typology interact with specialists on Transeurasian languages, presenting innovative theoretical analyses and new empirical facts. The stress on the importance of paradigmatic morphology in historical linguistics contrasts sharply with the paucity of existing literature on the topic. This volume partially fills this gap, by shifting focus from Indo-European to other language families. “Paradigm change” will appeal to scholars and advanced students concerned with linguistic reconstruction, language contact, morphology and typology, and to anyone interested in the Transeurasian languages.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 161] 2014. xix, 345 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.161

Table of Contents

List of tables	ix–xiv
List of figures	xv–xvi
List of contributors	xvii–xviii
Acknowledgements	xix–xx
Chapter 1. When paradigms change Martine Robbeets and Walter Bisang	1–20
Part I. Paradigm change
Chapter 2. On the strength of morphological paradigms: A historical account of radical pro-drop Walter Bisang	23–60
Chapter 3. Derivational paradigms in diachrony  and comparison Johanna Nichols	61–88
Chapter 4. On arguing from diachrony for paradigms Brian D. Joseph	89–102
Chapter 5. Reconstructing the Niger-Congo Verb Extension Paradigm: What’s Cognate, Copied or Renewed? Larry M. Hyman	103–126
Part II. The continuation of paradigms
Chapter 6. Perceived formal and functional equivalence: The Hungarian ik-conjugation Éva Ágnes Csató	129–140
Chapter 7. Comparative consequences of the tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean Seongyeon Ko, Andrew Joseph and John Whitman	141–176
Chapter 8. Old Japanese bigrade paradigms and Korean passives and causatives J. Marshall Unger	177–196
Chapter 9. The Japanese inflectional paradigm in a Transeurasian perspective Martine Robbeets	197–232
Part III. The innovation of paradigms
Chapter 10. A Yakut copy of a Tungusic viewpoint  aspect paradigm Lars Johanson	235–242
Chapter 11. Amdo Altaic directives and comparatives based on the verb ‘to see’ Hans Nugteren	243–256
Chapter 12. Innovations and archaisms in Siberian Turkic spatial case paradigms: A Transeurasian historical and areal perspective Irina Nevskaya	257–286
Chapter 13. Paradigm copying in Tungusic: The Lamunkhin dialect of Ėven and beyond Brigitte Pakendorf	287–310
Chapter 14. Ural-Altaic: The Polygenetic Origins of Nominal Morphology  in the Transeurasian Zone Juha A. Janhunen	311–336
Language index	337–342
Subject index	343–346

Subjects

Linguistics

Morphology

Syntax

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2014020748 | Marc record