Lene Antonsen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lene Antonsen plays a role.
Article
2016 The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity Diachronica 33:3, pp. 330–366 | Article
North Saami is replacing the use of possessive suffixes on nouns with a morphologically simpler analytic construction. Our data (>2K examples culled from >.5M words) track this change through three generations, covering parameters of semantics, syntax and geography. Intense contact pressure on… read more