Hill, Eugen 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2252-0520
(2025).
Morphological analogy as whole-word replacement: Revisiting the counterevidence.
In:
Comparative and Dialectal Approaches to Analogy,
pp. 169-185.
Oxford University PressOxford.
ISBN 978-0-19-199523-1
Abstract
The chapter deals with morphological analogy in inflectional paradigms. It argues that the traditional concept of analogical change in inflection, which is assumed to replace whole word forms by word forms created anew on an existing model pattern, is correct. The chapter discusses recent claims, according to which analogy may (also) work by replacing only a part of an inflectional form, i.e. a morpheme or a part of a morpheme. Such observations—recently published for old English, old and middle High German, and ancient Greek—are examined on the background of what is securely established about these languages at the relevant time. It is shown that in all such cases the change is either not morphological or consistent with the traditional notion of analogy as whole-word replacement.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
| Creators: | Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-804654 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1093/9780191995231.003.0008 |
| Title of Book: | Comparative and Dialectal Approaches to Analogy |
| Series Name: | Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics |
| Volume: | 55 |
| Page Range: | pp. 169-185 |
| Number of Pages: | 17 |
| Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University PressOxford |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-199523-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, Digital Humanities > Institut für Linguistik (IfL) |
| Subjects: | Language, Linguistics |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Keywords Language language change ; inflection ; analogy ; levelling ; proportional analogy English |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/80465 |
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