The Optional Use of Morphological Case

Lestrade, Sander

doi:10.1349/ps1.1537-0852.a.437

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“…The hypothesis that we formulate on that account and in line with LESTRADE's (2010LESTRADE's ( , 2013 and STOLZ et al's (2014) recent proposals is that the omission is the result of an informational load relief strategy that helps to produce more economical utterances by dropping that constituent which is formally and semantically most dispensable in the sense that it makes the smallest contribution to the spatial relational meaning. Recall from Sections 2 and 3 that very often Goal and Place are encoded by more than one of the constituents of motion event utterances.…”

Section: Without Postposition With Postpositionsupporting

confidence: 72%

“…Work by LESTRADE (2010LESTRADE ( , 2013 and STOLZ et al (2014) has recently drawn attention to the fact that the phenomenon of zero marking of spatial relations is widely found crosslinguistically. STOLZ et al identify two types of spatial zeroes, syntagmatic and paradigmatic, which they define thus:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In other words, the optional omission of overt spatial markers, which gives rise to syntagmatic zeroes, is contextually-conditioned. LESTRADE (2010LESTRADE ( , 2013 and STOLZ et al (2014) account for the (syntagmatic or paradigmatic) omission of spatial markers in terms of economy and predictability. They argue that the use of zero markers is driven by the speakers' preference to produce economical utterances while at the same time ensuring communicative success.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Section 4, we turn to Phloïtá Cappadocian and Silliot, the two dialects in which the zero marker first makes its appearance (Stage II dialects). Applying the diatopy-as-diachrony method, we analyse the distribution of se and zero and formulate a proposal as to the syntactic and semantic contexts that favoured the optional omission of se and offer a functional explanation drawing on LESTRADE's (2010LESTRADE's ( , 2013 and STOLZ et al's (2014) recent proposals. In Section 5, we examine Ulaghátsh Cappadocian, which has lost se altogether, focusing on the ramifications of this loss for the typological profile of this variety (Stage III dialect).…”

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confidence: 99%

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From syntagmatic to paradigmatic spatial zeroes: The loss of the prepositionsein inner Asia Minor Greek

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Georgakopoulos

2016

STUF - Language Typology and Universals

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We trace the diachronic development of the preposition se in inner Asia Minor Greek from its use to mark a range of spatial functions to its ultimate loss and replacement by zero. We propose that, before spreading to all syntactic and semantic contexts, zero marking was contextually-dependent on the presence/absence of a prenominal genitive modifying the head noun of Ground-encoding NPs and on the presence/absence of Region-encoding postpositions. We attribute these developments to an informational load relief strategy aimed at producing more economical utterances as well as to language contact with Turkish, which favoured structural convergence on the adpositional level between the two languages.

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Section: Without Postposition With Postpositionsupporting

confidence: 72%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From syntagmatic to paradigmatic spatial zeroes: The loss of the prepositionsein inner Asia Minor Greek

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Georgakopoulos

2016

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“…A few dialects are found at a more advanced stage. In Phloïtá Cappadocian and in Silliot, the preposition se is frequently omitted from CircumPs, which results in a novel means for the encoding of spatial region, namely (Dawkins 1916: 286) Drawing on recent work by Lestrade (2010Lestrade ( , 2013 and Stolz, Lestrade & Stolz (2014), Karatsareas & Georgakopoulos (2016) identify two driving forces behind the omission of se in these dialects: (a) a general speakers' preference for economic utterances; and, (b) the general tendency observed in Asia Minor Greek to achieve structural convergence with Turkish with respect to the position of heads and complements (see also the discussion in Section 5). The former refers to the fact that, in utterances such as (16) and (17), the Goal and Place relations that hold between the respective Figures and Grounds (in the sense of Talmy 1985Talmy , 2000-that is, between the third person singular and to xorʝo, and between mɲa xoʃasːa kori and tʃi siran=tu-are encoded by both se and the spatial verbs semen and eɲi.…”

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The Asia Minor Greek Adpositional Cycle

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2016

J Greek Linguist

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This paper examines the interplay of language-internal continuity and external influence in the cyclical development of the Asia Minor Greek adpositional system. The Modern Greek dialects of Asia Minor inherited an adpositional system of the Late Medieval Greek type whereby secondary adpositions regularly combined with primary adpositions to encode spatial region. Secondary adpositions could originally precede simple adpositions ([preposition + preposition + NP ACC ]) or follow the adpositional complement ([preposition + NP ACC + postposition]). Asia Minor Greek replicated the structure of Ottoman Turkish postpositional phrases to resolve this variability, fixing the position of secondary adpositions after the complement and thus developing circumpositions of the type [preposition + NP ACC + postposition]. Later, some varieties dropped the primary preposition se from circumpositional phrases, leaving (secondary) postpositions as the only overt relator ([NP ACC + postposition]) in some environments. In addition, a number of Turkish postpositions were borrowed wholesale, thus enriching the Greek adpositional inventory.

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Role-reference associations and the explanation of argument coding splits

Haspelmath

2020

Linguistics

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Argument coding splits such as differential (= split) object marking and split ergative marking have long been known to be universal tendencies, but the generalizations have not been formulated in their full generality before. In particular, ditransitive constructions have rarely been taken into account, and scenario splits have often been treated separately. Here I argue that all these patterns can be understood in terms of the usual association of role rank (highly ranked A and R, low-ranked P and T) and referential prominence (locuphoric person, animacy, definiteness, etc.). At the most general level, the role-reference association universal says that deviations from usual associations of role rank and referential prominence tend to be coded by longer grammatical forms. In other words, A and R tend to be referentially prominent in language use, while P and T are less prominent, and when less usual associations need to be expressed, languages often require special coding by means of additional flags (case-markers and adpositions) or additional verbal voice coding (e.g., inverse or passive markers). I argue that role-reference associations are an instance of the even more general pattern of form-frequency correspondences, and that the resulting coding asymmetries can all be explained by frequency-based predictability and coding efficiency.

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The Optional Use of Morphological Case

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

From syntagmatic to paradigmatic spatial zeroes: The loss of the prepositionsein inner Asia Minor Greek

From syntagmatic to paradigmatic spatial zeroes: The loss of the prepositionsein inner Asia Minor Greek

The Asia Minor Greek Adpositional Cycle

Role-reference associations and the explanation of argument coding splits

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