In PIE, quality modifiers were expressed by stative verbs and nominal epithets, rather than by special adjectival lexemes. Adjectives did not form a separate lexical class. This made the encoding of the NP constituency less explicit. If we consider what I suggest calling “second-generation IE languages” we can observe a general tendency to create new, more explicit morphological means of dependency marking within a NP. The exact outcomes of this diachronic process vary from one language to another. However, if we parametrise the variation, a common pattern becomes clearly observable. In all the languages analysed in the present paper, there is a pronoun undergoing grammaticalisation as a dependency marker. What varies is 1) the position of this element with respect to the nominal base (pre- vs. post- posed); 2) the degree of agglutination (bound morpheme vs. clitic vs. free morpheme); and 3) the locus of marking (head vs. modifier vs. double or alternant marking); 4) the source morpheme that undergoes grammaticalisation (relative vs. demonstrative pronoun).
Marking of quality modifiers in 2nd-generation IE languages / Keidan, Artemij. - In: POZNAN STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY LINGUISTICS. - ISSN 1897-7499. - STAMPA. - 56:3(2020), pp. 477-527. [10.1515/psicl-2020-0014]
Marking of quality modifiers in 2nd-generation IE languages
Artemij Keidan
2020
Abstract
In PIE, quality modifiers were expressed by stative verbs and nominal epithets, rather than by special adjectival lexemes. Adjectives did not form a separate lexical class. This made the encoding of the NP constituency less explicit. If we consider what I suggest calling “second-generation IE languages” we can observe a general tendency to create new, more explicit morphological means of dependency marking within a NP. The exact outcomes of this diachronic process vary from one language to another. However, if we parametrise the variation, a common pattern becomes clearly observable. In all the languages analysed in the present paper, there is a pronoun undergoing grammaticalisation as a dependency marker. What varies is 1) the position of this element with respect to the nominal base (pre- vs. post- posed); 2) the degree of agglutination (bound morpheme vs. clitic vs. free morpheme); and 3) the locus of marking (head vs. modifier vs. double or alternant marking); 4) the source morpheme that undergoes grammaticalisation (relative vs. demonstrative pronoun).File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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