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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | From prefixes to suffixes: Typological change in Northern Australia |
Author: | Harvey, M. Green, I. Nordlinger, R. |
Citation: | Diachronica: international journal for historical linguistics, 2006; 23(2):289-311 |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co. |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
ISSN: | 0176-4225 1569-9714 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Harvey, Mark; Green, Ian; Nordlinger, Rachel |
Abstract: | This article provides a counterexample to the commonly held, if unexamined, proposition that morphemes reconstructed as affixes do not change their position with respect to the root. We do not expect to find that a proto-prefix has suffix reflexes, nor that a proto-suffix has prefix reflexes. In this paper we show, through detailed reconstruction, that paradigms of class/case suffixes in a number of Northern Australian languages derive historically from a paradigm of proto-prefixes, through the encliticization and reduction of prefixed demonstratives to nominals. This process has only left a few traces of the demonstrative stems in the synchronic forms. |
Keywords: | Australian languages diachronic morphology Mirndi languages nominal suffixes prefixes reconstruction |
Description: | © Copyright 2006 John Benjamins. |
DOI: | 10.1075/dia.23.2.04har |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.23.2.04har |
Appears in Collections: | Adelaide Graduate Centre publications Aurora harvest 6 |
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