How Animacy and Natural Gender Constrain Morphological Complexity: Evidence from Diachrony

In addition to its central role in the organization of gender systems and its numerous effects on different parts of the grammar, animacy reveals itself as a significant, sometimes even determinant factor in diachronic processes like the reduction of morphological complexity. Complexity in the realm...

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Published in:	Open Linguistics Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 438 - 452
Main Authors:	Igartua, Iván, Santazilia, Ekaitz
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	De Gruyter 01.11.2018
Subjects:	allomorphy Animacy diachronic change gender loss marginal gender morphological complexity natural gender
ISSN:	2300-9969, 2300-9969
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