Historical Linguistics 2011 : selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011 / edited by Ritsuko Kikusawa, Lawrence A. Reid.

Starting from Sapir's (1921) concept of linguistic "drift", this chapter explores long-term morphosyntactic change in Ancient Egyptian, with particular attention to the typological shift from agglutinative-synthetic to largely analytic morphological structure. The momentum for the con...

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Corporate Author: International Conference on Historical Linguistics Osaka, Japan
Other Authors: Kikusawa, Ritsuko, Reid, Lawrence Andrew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 326.
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