DAVID FERTIG
Biographic Data
| ID | 5900795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | DAVID FERTIG |
| GIVEN NAMES | DAVID |
| FAMILY NAME | FERTIG |
| SIGNATURE | FERTIG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Morphological Change Through Phonological Analogy
Almost all existing accounts of the change of the 2nd person singular verbal agreement ending - s to - st in Old English and Old High German attribute the development to some combination of reanalysis of forms with enclitic subject pronouns ending in - stu and analogy based on a handful of mainly preterite-present verbs that already had 2nd person singular - st in the present indicative in Proto-(West)-Germanic. These factors retain a role in the…
Mechanisms of paradigm leveling and the role of universal preferences in morphophonological change
Historical linguists have long been divided in their views about the mechanisms behind paradigm leveling, with many invoking a special mechanism related to a universal preference for paradigm uniformity while others attribute leveling to the same mechanism responsible for other types of analogical change. I argue that although ‘proportional’ analogical innovation plays a major role in paradigm leveling, it cannot account for all cases, and that s…
Hermann Paul's 'Principles of Language History' Revisited
Hermann Paul's Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte served as the most important codification and development of Neogrammarian thought for more than four decades. Four well-known linguists have translated specially selected chapters of the Prinzipien into English and provide their reflections on Hermann Paul's contribution on a range of topics.
Morphological Change Up Close
Analogical 'Leveling' from Outside the Paradigm
Among the many changes that have occurred in the stem vowels of the German modal verbs is one set that has led to the partial or complete elimination of morphophonemic alternations between present and preterite in five of the modals in modern times. Analogical leveling is usually seen as playing an important role in the motivation for these changes. By examining the details of the changes in the standard language and in a large number of dialects…
Suppletion, natural morphology, and diagrammaticity
This paper challenges the widespread view of suppletion as nothing but morphologically nonfunctional diachronic residue. Within natural morphology suppletion has generally been treated as an unnatural' phenomenon that must be accounted for in extragrammatical terms. A richer notion of diagrammatic iconicity, however, inspired largely by Bybee's work, leads to an analysis in which suppletion in semantically generic, grammaticalized or grammaticali…
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Suppletion, natural morphology, and diagrammaticity
This paper challenges the widespread view of suppletion as nothing but morphologically nonfunctional diachronic residue. Within natural morphology suppletion has generally been treated as an unnatural' phenomenon that must be accounted for in extragrammatical terms. A richer notion of diagrammatic iconicity, however, inspired largely by Bybee's work, leads to an analysis in which suppletion in semantically generic, grammaticalized or grammaticali…
Analogical 'Leveling' from Outside the Paradigm
Among the many changes that have occurred in the stem vowels of the German modal verbs is one set that has led to the partial or complete elimination of morphophonemic alternations between present and preterite in five of the modals in modern times. Analogical leveling is usually seen as playing an important role in the motivation for these changes. By examining the details of the changes in the standard language and in a large number of dialects…
Morphological Change Up Close
Hermann Paul's 'Principles of Language History' Revisited
Hermann Paul's Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte served as the most important codification and development of Neogrammarian thought for more than four decades. Four well-known linguists have translated specially selected chapters of the Prinzipien into English and provide their reflections on Hermann Paul's contribution on a range of topics.
Mechanisms of paradigm leveling and the role of universal preferences in morphophonological change
Historical linguists have long been divided in their views about the mechanisms behind paradigm leveling, with many invoking a special mechanism related to a universal preference for paradigm uniformity while others attribute leveling to the same mechanism responsible for other types of analogical change. I argue that although ‘proportional’ analogical innovation plays a major role in paradigm leveling, it cannot account for all cases, and that s…
Morphological Change Through Phonological Analogy
Almost all existing accounts of the change of the 2nd person singular verbal agreement ending - s to - st in Old English and Old High German attribute the development to some combination of reanalysis of forms with enclitic subject pronouns ending in - stu and analogy based on a handful of mainly preterite-present verbs that already had 2nd person singular - st in the present indicative in Proto-(West)-Germanic. These factors retain a role in the…
Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Analogy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · German (2 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (2 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (2 works)