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    From prefixes to suffixes

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    Author
    Harvey, M; Green, I; Nordlinger, R
    Date
    2006-12-31
    Source Title
    Diachronica: international journal for historical linguistics
    Publisher
    John Benjamins Publishing Company
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Nordlinger, Rachel
    Affiliation
    Languages and Linguistics
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    Harvey, M., Green, I. & Nordlinger, R. (2006). From prefixes to suffixes. Diachronica, 23 (2), pp.289-311. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23.2.04har.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/31248
    DOI
    10.1075/dia.23.2.04har
    Abstract
    <jats:p>This article provides a counterexample to the commonly held, if unexamined, proposition that morphemes reconstructed as affixes do not change their position with respect to the root. We do not expect to find that a proto-prefix has suffix reflexes, nor that a proto-suffix has prefix reflexes. In this paper we show, through detailed reconstruction, that paradigms of class/case suffixes in a number of Northern Australian languages derive historically from a paradigm of proto-prefixes, through the encliticization and reduction of prefixed demonstratives to nominals. This process has only left a few traces of the demonstrative stems in the synchronic forms.</jats:p>
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    Linguistics

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