Greek dialectal evidence for the role of the paradigm in inflectional change |
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Authors: | Brian D Joseph |
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Institution: | (1) The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
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Abstract: | Several dialectal variants of the inflectional ending for person, number, tense, and voice in the Modern Greek past imperfective
nonactive paradigm are presented here by way of showing the relevance of dialect material for linguistic theory. In this case,
the endings underwent reshapings based on other related endings (e.g., 3PL based on 1/2PL), providing a basis for understanding
the nature of interactions among different “cells” within a paradigm and the constructs that can be employed to model them.
As a result, both rules of referral and O–O correspondence relations are shown to have to take sub-word similarities into
consideration, and various constraints on such interactions are considered and rejected in favor of a liberal view that allows
for any cell to relate to any other cell. Finally, a distinction is motivated, based on cell-to-cell influences, between adventitious
and significant syncretism of form. |
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Keywords: | Dialect Inflectional ending Modern Greek O– O correspondence Paradigm Rule of referral Syncretism |
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