TY  - JOUR
AU  - Harvey, M
AU  - Green, I
AU  - Nordlinger, R
Y2  - 2014/05/22
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 0176-4225
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/31248
AB  - <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>
LA  - en
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Linguistics
T1  - From prefixes to suffixes: Typological change in Northern Australia
DO  - 10.1075/dia.23.2.04har
IS  - Diachronica International Journal for Historical Linguistics. Founded by E.F.K. Koerner, General Editor, 1984–2001
VL  - 23
IS  - 2
SP  - 289-311
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/31248/280662_52599.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=n
ER  -