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Submorphematische Motiviertheit als Grammatikalisierungsergebnis: zur Grammatikalisierung von Reflexivpronomen [Submorphematic motivatedness as a result of grammaticalization: on the grammaticalization of reflexive pronouns]

  • Elisabeth Leiss
Published/Copyright: December 9, 2005
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Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik
From the journal Volume 32 Issue 2

Abstract

Grammaticization theory gives a lot of evidence that grammatical polysemy is the normal case whereas grammatical homonymy is more and more seen to be just a case of undetected polysemy. Identical forms are linked together by a common path of grammaticization. They are therefore necessarily related in meaning. Due to this insight Grammaticization theory has completely undermined an important part of the axiomatics of linguistics: The so-called arbitrariness of the relation between meaning and form may be nothing more than a yet undetected motivated relation between different stages of grammaticizational processes. The present paper aims at finding undetected polysemy even at a submorphematic level. In order to exemplify this approach the German reflexive pronoun sich is splitted into the segments s- and –ich. It is suggested that the homonymy of the second segment with the first personal pronoun ich   is just a case of undetected polysemy. The intention of this at first glance donquijotical approach to morphology is to provoke believers in homonymy to make more efforts to prove their own approach.

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Online erschienen: 2005-12-09
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