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COMPLEXITY DEVELOPMENT AND SIMPLIFICATION IN 
SYSTEMIC TYPOLOGY: TYPES OF 
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Publication date: 06.06.2018

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2018, Volume 135, Issue 2, pp. 113 - 129

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.18.010.8469

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Andrii Danylenko
Pace University, New York
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COMPLEXITY DEVELOPMENT AND SIMPLIFICATION IN 
SYSTEMIC TYPOLOGY: 
TYPES OF CHANGES IN THE INTERNAL
DETERMINANT

Abstract

The article deals with a developmental cline of the ego-et-nunc communicative scope in Slavic versus Germanic and Romance. The author posits a two pathway grammaticaliza­tion for the Indo-European ego-et-nunc communicative scope progressing along the axis of syntheticity and the axis of analyticity respectively. The prospective perspective (aspect) is typical of Slavic while the retrospective perspective is observed in the analytic Western European languages. Each of the two grammaticalization pathways is characterized by four possible changes as determined by particular configurations of the societal factors (synthetic complexification, synthetic simplification, analytic simplification, analytic complexification). The author places the systematic typology of Mel’nikov in a wider context of areal-typological and genealogical research.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2018, Volume 135, Issue 2, pp. 113 - 129

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

COMPLEXITY DEVELOPMENT AND SIMPLIFICATION IN 
SYSTEMIC TYPOLOGY: 
TYPES OF CHANGES IN THE INTERNAL
DETERMINANT

English:

COMPLEXITY DEVELOPMENT AND SIMPLIFICATION IN 
SYSTEMIC TYPOLOGY: TYPES OF 
CHANGES IN THE INTERNAL 
DETERMINANT

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Pace University, New York

Published at: 06.06.2018

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