The superstable marker as an indicator of categorial weakness?
- In this article we examine and "exapt" Wurzel's concept of superstable markers in an innovative manner. We develop an extended view of superstability through a critical discussion of Wurzel's original definition and the status of marker-superstability versus allomorphy in Natural Morphology: As we understand it, superstability is - above and beyond a step towards uniformity - mainly a symptom for the weakening of the category affected (cf. 1.,2. and 4.). This view is exemplified in four short case studies on superstability in different grammatical categories of four Germanic languages: genitive case in Mainland Scandinavian and English (3.1), plural formation in Dutch (3.2), second person singular ending -st in German (3.3), and ablaut generalisation in Luxembourgish (3.4).
| Author: | Antje DammelGND, Damaris NüblingGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-81830 |
| URL: | http://www.germanistik.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/Nuebling_Dammel_2006c.PDF |
| Parent Title (German): | Folia Linguistica |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/10/12 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/10/12 |
| GND Keyword: | Morphologie |
| Volume: | 40 |
| First Page: | 97 |
| Last Page: | 113 |
| Source: | http://www.germanistik.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/Nuebling_Dammel_2006c.PDF ; (in:) Folia Linguistica XL/1-2, 2006, S. 97-113 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 267913591 |
| Institutes: | keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
| Linguistik | |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | 02.00.00 Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft (in Auswahl) / BDSL-Klassifikation: 02.00.00 Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft > 02.05.00 Grammatik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
