The Slavic Dual: Morphosyntactic Feature Economy as a Factor in Language Change
Dual number marked on personal pronouns and verbal agreement suffixes disappeared in the majority of Slavic languages except for three - Slovenian, Upper Sorbian, and Lower Sorbian. Previous studies do not provide a principled account why (i) the monomorphemic dual was reanalyzed as bimorphemic in S...
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The University of Arizona.
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297021 |