On Interpreting Morphological Change: The Greek Reflexive Pronoun

By Roger D. Woodard

In classical Attic Greek of the fifth century B.C., there are found six distinct forms of the reflexive pronoun: one form for each of the three persons of the singular and of the plural. This morphologically elaborate system is eventually replaced, however, by one in which there is only a single reflexive pronominal stem (-auto- or its variant uto-). In On Interpreting Morphological Change, Woodard traces the course of this linguistic development through a period of approxi-mately six cen-turies. An analysis of this pr-cess of morpho-logical replacement reveals that the change is motivated by morphological redundancy and is sensitive to a hierarchy of grammatical relations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9050630499
• ISBN13: 9789050630498
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.4"