Why do languages lose grammatical categories? Latin and romance evidence.(Report)

Romance Quarterly | January 1, 2009| | Copyright

Historical accounts of the loss of inflectional categories typically address the aftermath of the loss without adequately treating the reasons for the loss. For instance, Robertson (174-77) points out certain significant consequences of the loss of the particle wal in the history of the Mayan verb but does not address the reasons for the loss of wal.

In this article, I explore the loss of grammatical categories via two case studies on the future and passive in Latin and Romance. Some analyses of the former focus on the later corresponding periphrases, rather than ...

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