DiachronicaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1075/dia.18019.mai
T. Maisak
{"title":"Borrowing from an unrelated language in support of intragenetic tendencies","authors":"T. Maisak","doi":"10.1075/dia.18019.mai","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.18019.mai","url":null,"abstract":"Udi is a Nakh-Daghestanian (Lezgic) language spoken in northern Azerbaijan, which has undergone many contact-induced changes due to the influence of unrelated languages of the eastern Caucasus (Indo-European, Turkic). A recent change is the borrowing of the conditional enclitic =sa from Azerbaijani (Turkic). In Udi, this marker can combine with finite indicative tenses, resulting in a series of derived ‘realis’ conditional mood forms. The clitic is also used to create an indefiniteness marker, which derives indefinite pronouns from interrogative ones. Prior to the borrowing of the Azerbaijani morpheme there was no comparable marker in Udi available to fulfil these functions, while other Lezgic languages employ their own native grammatical means for the same functions (conditional clitics or auxiliaries). The acquisition of the borrowed clitic has thus made Udi more and not less structurally isomorphic with respect to the other languages of the Lezgic branch. This paper develops a description of functions related to the domain of conditional mood on various stages of the history of Udi, and suggests a diachronic scenario for the borrowing of the Azerbaijani marker =sa.","PeriodicalId":44637,"journal":{"name":"Diachronica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59396956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiachronicaPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.1075/DIA.16038.PRO
T. Pronk
{"title":"Language contact and prosodic change in Slavic and Baltic","authors":"T. Pronk","doi":"10.1075/DIA.16038.PRO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DIA.16038.PRO","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper discusses several Slavic and Baltic dialects which have undergone stress shifts as a result of language\u0000 contact. Two types of change are discussed: (1) stress retractions from the final syllable onto the initial syllable of a prosodic\u0000 word, and (2) the rise of fixed stress replacing earlier free stress. It is argued that in all cases discussed in the paper,\u0000 contact with a language with fixed initial stress caused a stress shift. Examples from Croatian and Lithuanian demonstrate that\u0000 pitch contours played an important role in these shifts. The results of the shifts are not always identical, but the underlying\u0000 mechanism is the same in each of these cases: the lexical pitch contour of the donor language was imposed on the target language,\u0000 thereby introducing constraints on the position of stress in the target language. It is argued that a similar mechanism operated\u0000 in West Slavic, where languages with free stress introduced fixed stress on the initial or penultimate syllable due to contact\u0000 with German and possibly Hungarian.","PeriodicalId":44637,"journal":{"name":"Diachronica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44455710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiachronicaPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.1075/DIA.17019.HES
Tyler Heston
{"title":"The evolution of word prosody in the Papuan languages of Eastern Timor","authors":"Tyler Heston","doi":"10.1075/DIA.17019.HES","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DIA.17019.HES","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Word prosody and sentence-level intonation undergo complex interactions through time. In this study, I focus on\u0000 the effects of intonation on the development of word prosody in two closely related Papuan languages, Makalero and Fataluku.\u0000 Though both are very similar segmentally, Makalero’s prosodic system is based on trochaic stress, while Fataluku is\u0000 characterized primarily by phrase-level intonational contours. On the basis of internal comparative evidence, I demonstrate that\u0000 the trochaic stress system of Makalero is older, and that a series of well-motivated sound changes has led to a dissociation of\u0000 stress and intonation in Fataluku. A disassociation between stress and intonation is typologically unexpected, and analysis of the\u0000 historical development of Fataluku’s system sheds light on how such a dissociation may have taken place.","PeriodicalId":44637,"journal":{"name":"Diachronica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45708011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiachronicaPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.1075/DIA.16040.BLA
T. Blaxter, David Willis
{"title":"Pragmatic differentiation of negative markers in the early stages of Jespersen’s cycle in North\u0000 Germanic","authors":"T. Blaxter, David Willis","doi":"10.1075/DIA.16040.BLA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DIA.16040.BLA","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article investigates the pragmatic function of new negative markers during incipient renewal of negation in\u0000 ‘Jespersen’s cycle’. We outline a typology of these markers, suggesting a pathway by which they begin as specialized for use with\u0000 discourse-old propositions and later expand to inferred propositions before finally becoming possible with discourse-new\u0000 propositions. This framework is applied to an overlooked case of Jespersen’s cycle in North Germanic: replacement of early\u0000 Norwegian ei(gi) “not” by ekki (originally “nothing”) from 1250 to 1550. We\u0000 document a sharp rise in frequency of ekki around 1425, suggesting that, until then, ekki had\u0000 been restricted to negating discourse-old propositions. Once this constraint was lifted, ei(gi)\u0000 and ekki competed directly, resulting in rapid replacement of ei(gi) by\u0000 ekki. This typologically unusual direct replacement of a negator with no intervening doubling stage can be\u0000 attributed to the new negator’s origin as a negative indefinite and the lack of negative concord in early Norwegian.","PeriodicalId":44637,"journal":{"name":"Diachronica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43963653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}