Paradigm change : in the Transeurasian languages and beyond / edited by Martine Robbeets, Walter Bisang ; contributors, Éva Á. Csató [and fifteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robbeets, Martine Irma, editor.

Bisang, Walter, editor.

Csató, Éva Ágnes, contributor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; Volume 161.

Studies in Language Companion Series, 0165-7763 ; Volume 161

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paradigm (Linguistics).

Altaic languages--Morphology.

Altaic languages.

Altaic languages--Verb.

Comparative linguistics--Eurasia.

Comparative linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The paper reviews the data concerning the nominal inflectional morphology in the chain of languages comprising Uralic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic, collectively termed "Ural-Altaic". Although nominal morphology has traditionally been quoted in support of the hypothesis concerning the genetic relationship of these languages, a more detailed survey of the data shows that the extant parallels are in various ways secondary and/or accidental. This suggests that Ural-Altaic is an areal and typological complex of languages, but not a genetic entity. On the other hand, it is also

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-272-6973-4

OCLC:

891449133