Morphosyntactic realignment and markedness change in Late Latin: Evidence from charter texts

This paper discusses how the Latin accusative became the unmarked default case and how this markedness turn is related to the morphosyntactic realignment of the grammatical relations in Late Latin. In Classical Latin, the nominative was the unmarked default case, as is typical of nominative/accusati...

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Main Author: Timo Korkiakangas
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Presses universitaires du Midi 2016-11-01
Series:Pallas
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/3763