What is it about?
We trace the diachronic development of the goal-marking preposition ‘se’ from its use to mark a range of spatial functions to its ultimate loss and replacement by zero based on Cappadocian texts. We examine the role of language contact with Turkish as well as the wider dialectological context of the phenomenon.
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We provide empirical support to the idea that the diachronic emergence of paradigmatic zeroes in a language that did not originally display them is preceded by a stage characterised by the presence of syntagmatic zeroes.
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This page is a summary of: From syntagmatic to paradigmatic spatial zeroes: The loss of the preposition se in inner Asia Minor Greek, Language Typology and Universals, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/stuf-2016-0014.
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