Advanced search
1 file | 209.09 KB Add to list

Watkins' Law and the development of agglutinative inflections in Asia Minor Greek

Mark Janse (UGent)
Author
Organization
Abstract
This paper interprets the agglutinative inflection of the copula and passive imperfect in Cappadocian and Bithynian as an adaptation of the Greek to the Turkish inflection on the basis of the third person singular in accordance with Watkins’ Law. The first and second person plural forms of these agglutinative inflections add the corresponding Turkish personal suffixes to the Greek ones in the Cappadocian dialect of Semenderé and the Lycaonian dialect of Sílli. It is argued that the Turkish personal suffixes have been added because of the superficial formal similarity of the Greek ones with the corresponding Turkish temporal suffixes. The addition of the Turkish personal suffixes is interpreted as a case of triggered code-switching and hence as a violation of Poplack’s Free Morpheme Constraint.
Keywords
reanalysis, Watkins’ Law, free-morpheme constraint, agglutination, contact-induced change, code-switching, analogy

Downloads

  • JGL9x.pdf
    • full text
    • |
    • open access
    • |
    • PDF
    • |
    • 209.09 KB

Citation

Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:

MLA
Janse, Mark. “Watkins’ Law and the Development of Agglutinative Inflections in Asia Minor Greek.” JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS, vol. 9, no. 1, 2009, pp. 32–48.
APA
Janse, M. (2009). Watkins’ Law and the development of agglutinative inflections in Asia Minor Greek. JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS, 9(1), 32–48.
Chicago author-date
Janse, Mark. 2009. “Watkins’ Law and the Development of Agglutinative Inflections in Asia Minor Greek.” JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS 9 (1): 32–48.
Chicago author-date (all authors)
Janse, Mark. 2009. “Watkins’ Law and the Development of Agglutinative Inflections in Asia Minor Greek.” JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS 9 (1): 32–48.
Vancouver
1.
Janse M. Watkins’ Law and the development of agglutinative inflections in Asia Minor Greek. JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS. 2009;9(1):32–48.
IEEE
[1]
M. Janse, “Watkins’ Law and the development of agglutinative inflections in Asia Minor Greek,” JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 32–48, 2009.
@article{741973,
  abstract     = {{This paper interprets the agglutinative inflection of the copula and passive imperfect in Cappadocian and Bithynian as an adaptation of the Greek to the Turkish inflection on the basis of the third person singular in accordance with Watkins’ Law. The first and second person plural forms of these agglutinative inflections add the corresponding Turkish personal suffixes to the Greek ones in the Cappadocian dialect of Semenderé and the Lycaonian dialect of Sílli. It is argued that the Turkish personal suffixes have been added because of the superficial formal similarity of the Greek ones with the corresponding Turkish temporal suffixes. The addition of the Turkish personal suffixes is interpreted as a case of triggered code-switching and hence as a violation of
Poplack’s Free Morpheme Constraint.}},
  author       = {{Janse, Mark}},
  issn         = {{1566-5844}},
  journal      = {{JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS}},
  keywords     = {{reanalysis,Watkins’ Law,free-morpheme constraint,agglutination,contact-induced change,code-switching,analogy}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{32--48}},
  title        = {{Watkins' Law and the development of agglutinative inflections in Asia Minor Greek}},
  volume       = {{9}},
  year         = {{2009}},
}