description: In classical Attic Greek of the fifth century B.C., there are found six distinct forms of the reflexive 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 èuto-). 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.
language: English
title: On Interpreting Morphological Change: The Greek Reflexive Pronoun
titlecomplete: On Interpreting Morphological Change: The Greek Reflexive Pronoun
publisher: Brill