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De Smet, Hendrik – Language, 2012
Actualization is traditionally seen as the process following syntactic reanalysis whereby an item's new syntactic status manifests itself in new syntactic behavior. The process is gradual in that some new uses of the reanalyzed item appear earlier or more readily than others. This article accounts for the order in which new uses appear during…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Indo European Languages
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Garrett, Andrew – Language, 1990
Discusses ergative case marking system in Anatolian branch of Indo-European in which neuters inflect ergatively and common-gender nouns inflect accusatively. Development from instrumental to ergative that occurred in prehistory of Gorokan languages of Papua New Guinea is also discussed. It is suggested that this process is a general mechanism for…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Diachronic Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Morphology (Languages)
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Kiparsky, Paul – Language, 1973
Research supported by grants from the National Institute of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health. (DD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)