Article published In: Issues in Diachronic Construction Morphology
Edited by Muriel Norde and Graeme Trousdale
[Constructions and Frames 15:2] 2023
► pp. 211–233
The development of heterosemous inflection and derivation
Norwegian abundance plurals and distributive adjectives
Published online: 8 January 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.00073.kin
https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.00073.kin
Abstract
In Norwegian, the noun vis ‘manner’ is commonly used to head compounds. It is the historical
source of several suffixes: derivational suffixes in adverbs and adjectives and an inflectional suffix on measure nouns. Thus,
compounding has given rise to both derivation and inflection. These developments are analysed and compared with respect to how
they affect the network of constructions, with a focus on differences between derivation and inflection. The main difference is
that links of similarity and contrast have been centrally involved in the development of inflection, but not of derivation.
Keywords: adjective, adverb, analogy, grammaticalization, measure noun, paradigm, reanalysis
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The earliest adverbial constructions
- 3.Inflectional constructions
- 3.1Abundance adverbials
- 3.2Postnominal modifiers
- 3.3Pseudopartitive constructions
- 3.4Inflectional paradigms
- 3.5Summary on inflectional constructions
- 4.Derivational constructions
- 4.1Distributive adverbials
- 4.2Prenominal modifiers
- 4.3Derivational paradigms?
- 4.4Summary on derivational constructions
- 5.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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