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- Title
Intraparadigmatic cyclic and roll-up derivations in the Old Norse reinforced demonstrative.
- Authors
Lander, Eric T.
- Abstract
This paper presents a case study in intraparadigmatic variation. It begins with a fine-grained morphological decomposition of the reinforced demonstrative pronoun in Old Norse. Five distinct morphemes are identified, and it is shown that there are three patterns into which these morphemes can be assembled within the paradigm. Applying Cinque's () U20 theory of movement, it is then shown that the three different structures observed in the reinforced demonstrative paradigm are derived from a single functional sequence of four syntactic heads. Interestingly, a morphological reflex of the cyclic/roll-up divide is identified in the process. Finally, an account is provided for why only these three structures appear in the paradigm in the first place. Overall the paper argues that Cinque's () theory of syntactic movement can be applied also at the morphological level and ultimately that syntax and morphology are governed by the same principles.
- Subjects
PRONOUNS (Grammar); OLD Norse language; MORPHEMICS; SYNTAX (Grammar); MORPHOLOGY (Grammar)
- Publication
Linguistic Review, 2015, Vol 32, Issue 4, p777
- ISSN
0167-6318
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/tlr-2015-0009