On the utility of the concepts of markedness and prototypes in understanding the development of morphological systems
- In attempting to understand the history of the morphology of a language or group of languages, we occasionally face a problem of isomorphy, where two or more semantic categories evince the same formal marking. We then must decide which use of that particular form of marking is the oldest, and also determine the possible source and path of development of the marking. In languages with written documents of great time depth this is often not a problem, but in unwritten languages it can be quite difficult. This paper discusses two tools that can be used for this purpose: the concepts of markedness and prototypes.
| Author: | Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157905 |
| URL: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/mkpr.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/19 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1995 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/07/19 |
| GND Keyword: | Tibetobirmanische Sprachen ; Sinotibetische Sprachen |
| Volume: | 66 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Page Number: | 37 |
| First Page: | 1149 |
| Last Page: | 1185 |
| Source: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/mkpr.pdf ; (in:) Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 66, 4, 1995, S. 1149-1185 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 246710764 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
