Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: Content 1. Introduction & General research questions 2. Case study 1.The choice of suffix in Russian loan verbs 3. Case study 2. Morphological variation proper: multiple suffixes in Russian and Bosnian 4. Further steps • Leveling: One form ousts its rival over time (Old Norse ljúfr and kærr 'dear'; Bjorvand 2000, Blevins & Blevins 2009) • Sociolinguistic differentiation: The two rivals survive in different varieties of a language (kid and child in English, Harper 2001-2017) • Semantic differentiation: The rival forms develop different meanings over time (brethren and brothers in English; Croft 2000, Nesset and Makarova 2018)• Overabundance, on the other hand, suggests that doublets, functionally and semantically equivalent units, are possible (Thornton 2012).• Within morphological variation:• semantic and functional splits are mostly observed in the case of lexical morphemes (Lindsay & Aronoff 2013), • whereas overabundance is primarily attributed to variation in inflectional forms (Lečić 2016). Research questions:• Which suffixes serve as loan verb markers in which Slavic languages and what determines the suffix choice?• Do we attest variation patterns with the same stems and do they present a case of morphological competition or overabundance?Case study 1The choice of suffix in Russian loan verbs together with
DOI: 10.20378/irb-96034
Authors: Sandra Birzer, Svetlana Sokolova
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4401774361