Contact-induced change in the languages of Europe: The rise and development of partitive cases and determiners in Finnic and Basque-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Contact-induced change in the languages of Europe: The rise and development of partitive cases and determiners in Finnic and Basque

Published:2020-05-01 Issue:3 Volume:58 Page:869-903
ISSN:0024-3949
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Author:

Luraghi Silvia¹,De Smit Merlijn²,Igartua Iván³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Humanities – Linguistic Section , University of Pavia , 27100 Pavia , Italy

2. Division of Finnish , Stockholm University , Universitetsvägen 10 E, plan 9 , Stockholm 106 91 , Sweden

3. Department of Classical Studies , University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) , Vitoria-Gasteiz 01006 , Spain

Abstract

Abstract This paper explores the hypothesis of contact-induced change for the rise of the partitive case in Finnic languages and of the partitive case/determiner in Basque. On the basis of the well-established Indo-European partitive-genitive case and taking into account the lack of such a basis on the Uralic side, we argue that the partitive case in Finnic languages has arisen as a result of Balto-Slavic influence. Concerning the Basque partitive determiner, we likewise suggest a contact scenario (with Romance languages) as being responsible for the development of an entire system of determiners, including the definite and possibly the indefinite article as well as the partitive marker, which originates in an old ablative ending but crucially lacks the morphological properties characteristic of Basque inflectional markers.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2020-0083/pdf

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