The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity
The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity
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北萨米语所有格后缀的持续消失：减少形态复杂性的案例研究
DOI：
10.1075/dia.33.3.02jan
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发表时间：
2016
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0.7
通讯作者：
Lene Antonsen
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作者：
L. Janda;Lene Antonsen
北萨米人正在用一种形态上更简单的分析结构来取代名词所有格后缀的使用。我们的数据(从150万个单词中挑选了2K个例子)跟踪了三代人的这种变化，涵盖了语义、句法和地理参数。对这一少数民族语言的强烈接触压力可能促进了形态的简化，从而为创新结构产生了优势。这种创新的结构还具有优势，因为它的句法和语义范围更广，是不可或缺的，而它的竞争对手总是可以被取代的。即使在最年轻的一代，所有格后缀也被保留得最多的一个环境是主格单数，我们在这里发现了所有格后缀被重新解释为职格标记的证据。
North Saami is replacing the use of possessive suffixes on nouns with a morphologically simpler analytic construction. Our data (>2K examples culled from >.5M words) track this change through three generations, covering parameters of semantics, syntax and geography. Intense contact pressure on this minority language probably promotes morphological simplification, yielding an advantage for the innovative construction. The innovative construction is additionally advantaged because it has a wider syntactic and semantic range and is indispensable, whereas its competitor can always be replaced. The one environment where the possessive suffix is most strongly retained even in the youngest generation is in the Nominative singular case, and here we find evidence that the possessive suffix is being reinterpreted as a Vocative case marker.