How animacy and natural gender constrain morphological complexity: evidence from diachrony

Igartua, Iván; Santazilia Salvador, Ekaitz

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How animacy and natural gender constrain morphological complexity: evidence from diachrony

dc.contributor.author	Igartua, Iván	es_ES
dc.contributor.author	Santazilia Salvador, Ekaitz
dc.contributor.department	Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación	es_ES
dc.contributor.department	Giza eta Hezkuntza Zientziak	eu
dc.date.accessioned	2019-08-14T11:21:25Z
dc.date.available	2019-08-14T11:21:25Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description.abstract	In addition to its central role in the organization of gender systems and its numerous effects on different parts of the grammar, animacy reveals itself as a significant, sometimes even determinant factor in diachronic processes like the reduction of morphological complexity. Complexity in the realm of inflection may be defined as the extent to which formal distinctions in paradigms are semantically or phonologically unmotivated and therefore largely unpredictable on extramorphological grounds. Animacy and natural (or sex-based) gender emerge in certain cases as features capable of constraining this kind of complexity by offering a transparent semantic criterion that helps substantiate several formal distinctions in languages, thereby reducing the amount of morphological complexity or unpredictability inherited from earlier stages in the evolution of different linguistic systems.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	The research for this article has been made possible by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2014−57260−P). Support given by the research group on linguistics (UFI11/14) at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the research group on historical linguistics (IT698−13) funded by the Basque Government is also gratefully acknowledged.	en
dc.format.extent	15 p.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/opli-2018-0022
dc.identifier.issn	2300-9969
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/34335
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	De Gruyter	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Open Linguistics, 4 (1), 438-452	en
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//FFI2014-57260-P/ES/	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0022
dc.rights	© by Iván Igartua, Ekaitz Santazilia. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.	en
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dc.subject	Allomorphy	en
dc.subject	Animacy	en
dc.subject	Diachronic change	en
dc.subject	Gender loss	en
dc.subject	Marginal gender	en
dc.subject	Morphological complexity	en
dc.subject	Natural gender	en
dc.title	How animacy and natural gender constrain morphological complexity: evidence from diachrony	en
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