A comparative approach to verbal morphology in Transeurasian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23147785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martine Robbeets (0000-0002-2860-0230, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 511-521 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198804628.003.0031 |
| OpenAlex | W4237195104 |
| ISBN | 9780198804628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This chapter starts from a point of consensus in the Transeurasian debate, namely that common paradigmatic morphology could substantially help unravel the question. It aims at giving an overview of the verbal morphology shared by the Transeurasian languages. In addition to regular correspondences in form and function, it argues that the Transeurasian verb morphology displays a certain degree of paradigmaticity, based on relationships of grammatical patterning among different morphosyntactic subsystems. Moreover, shared irregularities such as peculiar allomorphies and functional idiosyncrasies are taken as a strong indication of affiliation of the languages concerned. The chapter concludes with an assessment of chance similarity, leading to the viewpoint that it is more sensible to attribute the correlations in the verbal morphology to inheritance than to take refuge in non-genealogical explanations.
Biology · Cognitive science · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Linguistics · Morphology (biology) · Similarity (geometry) · Verb · Zoology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |