Karatsareas, P. 2019. The morphology of Silliot Greek: paradigmatic defectiveness, paradigmatic levelling, and affix pleonasm. in: Ralli, A. (ed.) The Morphology of Asia Minor Dialects: selected topics Leiden Brill. pp. 148-180
| Chapter title | The morphology of Silliot Greek: paradigmatic defectiveness, paradigmatic levelling, and affix pleonasm |
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| Authors | Karatsareas, P. |
| Editors | Ralli, A. |
| Abstract | In this chapter, I discuss the synchrony and diachrony of three morphological features of Silliot Greek: the defective inflection of the definite article; the levelling of the parisyllabic and imparisyllabic declensions in masculine and feminine nouns into two unified inflectional classes; and, the formation of the imperfective past by means of the pleonastic suffixes -inondʒisk- and -inosk-. I show that all three phenomena have sporadic parallels in the other dialects of the inner Asia Minor Greek group (Cappadocian, Pharasiot as well as in Pontic), which I take to suggest that their development must have been set in motion at some earlier point in the history of the Asia Minor Greek dialects. I also show that, in Silliot, these innovations exhibit an increased degree of systematicity and regularity, and that they provide evidence for a tendency to reduce morphological contrasts and material in the dialect. I argue that, with the exception of some aspects of the diachrony of the defective definite article, this has been achieved largely through language-internal processes of change. |
| Keywords | Silliot Greek |
| morphology | |
| paradigms | |
| defectiveness | |
| levelling | |
| affix | |
| pleonasm | |
| Book title | The Morphology of Asia Minor Dialects: selected topics |
| Page range | 148-180 |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 27 Jun 2019 |
| Place of publication | Leiden |
| ISBN | 9789004394490 |
| ISSN | 2210-6243 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004394506_006 |
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