How animacy and natural gender constrain morphological complexity: evidence from diachrony
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Date
2018
Version
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Type
Artículo / Artikulua
Version
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Project Identifier
MINECO//FFI2014-57260-P/ES/ 
Impact
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 semantica ...
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Subject
Allomorphy,
Animacy,
Diachronic change,
Gender loss,
Marginal gender,
Morphological complexity,
Natural gender
Publisher
De Gruyter
Published in
Open Linguistics, 4 (1), 438-452
Departament
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Giza eta Hezkuntza Zientziak Saila
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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.
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