From prefixes to suffixes
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Harvey, M; Green, I; Nordlinger, RDate
2006-12-31Source Title
Diachronica: international journal for historical linguisticsPublisher
John Benjamins Publishing CompanyUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Nordlinger, RachelAffiliation
Languages and LinguisticsMetadata
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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.Access Status
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<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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