In:The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity: Typology, history, syntax and semantics
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal
[Typological Studies in Language 127] 2020
► pp. 61–92
Chapter 2The diachronic development from a two-unit to a one-unit construction
Published online: 4 March 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.127.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.127.c2
Article outline
- 2.1Introduction
- 2.2Previous proposals for the emergence of the one-unit construction
- 2.3Syntactic differences between the one- and the two-unit construction
- 2.4The diachronic development within the NP-strategy
- 2.4.1Stage I
- 2.4.2Stage II
- 2.4.3Stage III
- 2.4.3.1The basic changes
- 2.4.3.2Univerbation
- 2.4.3.3Insertion of an agreement marker
- 2.4.3.4A change of grammatical case
- Lack of grammatical case on one of the elements:
- Frozen nominative:
- All elements take the same case:
- 2.5An interim summary and the significance of the observations
- 2.6From one- to two-unit constructions
- 2.7Conclusions and extrapolations
- 2.7.1Diachronic developments, syntax and semantics
- 2.7.2The nature of the change from two- to one-unit constructions
- 2.7.3Future typological study
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