On morphological internalization
The origin of the Old Irish oblique relative conjunct particle -(s)aN-
This paper deals with the creation of the Old Irish oblique relative conjunct particle -(s)aN- (e.g., dianepir “for which he says” = do-(s)aN-epir) as the outcome of the internalization of a demonstrative form used as a light head, which initially stood as a morphologically independent form. The initial step of this change was the grammaticalization of that demonstrative as the oblique element of a paradigm of relative-clause type forms in which the subject and object functions of the antecedent of the relative are also distinguished. Internalization is defined as an abrupt morphological change creating grammatical elements; its specific mechanism is the mirror image of externalization and must be distinguished from other morphological changes such as incorporation.
Article outline
- 1.General and specific goals and structure of the paper
- 2.Old Irish and the definition of a morphological change
- 2.1Old Irish and its contribution to the diachrony of complex morphological structures
- 2.2Internalization in Old Irish
- 3.The Old Irish oblique relative conjunct particle -(s)aN-
- 3.1The notation -(s)aN-: Formal aspects of the particle
- 3.2What is a ‘conjunct particle’ in Old Irish?
- 3.3The particle -(s)aN- and other verbal complexes expressing relative-clause type
- 3.4Interim summary
- 4.The diachronic problem of the conjunct particle -(s)aN-
- 4.1Old Irish cognates of the conjunct particle -(s)aN- and the notion of ‘light head’
- 4.2Previous scholarship on the diachronic process leading to Old Irish -(s)aN
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- 5.Internalization as a morphological change
- 5.1Internalization and univerbation
- 5.2Internalization and incorporation
- 5.3Morphological externalization in the Old Irish verbal complex
- 5.4Interim summary: Internalization as a morphological change
- 6.Morphological internalization of the oblique relative independent conjunction *-(s)aN
- 6.1Internalization of the oblique relative independent conjunction *-(s)aN
- 6.2Favoring contexts for the internalization of *-(s)aN
- 7.Conclusions
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Acknowledgements
- Notes
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