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Perhaps “loss” — what Ponrawee was asking about -- should also be taken to include fossilisation, rather than only literal zeroing/omission of segmental marking. Especially when they are rigid, designations of places, by means of whatever lexical material,
have a tendency, often observed at least in Indo-European case languages, to have their local and directional case-marked forms reanalysed as basic forms:
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<div class="">Italian Firenze < Florenti-ae LOC.SG, </div>
<div class="">French Aix < aqu-is water-ABL.PL </div>
<div class="">German Buchen < Buch-en beech-DAT.PL</div>
<div class="">German Neunkirchen < MHG niuw-en kirch-en new-DAT.SG church-DAT.SG</div>
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<div class="">(Toponomasiologists will correct me if I’ve got my examples wrong, and they will provide correct ones galore.)</div>
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<div class="">This may create interesting problems for case-number-gender agreement with such nouns. But such reanalyses don’t usually entail the omission of adpositional local and directional markers. There would seem to be some similarity of “functional”
motivations, though, between such inflectional reanalyses and adposition omissions — notwithstanding the superficial impression of double rather than zero marking as a result of such reanalysis. Clearly, synchronically, Fahren wir
<u class="">nach</u> Neu<u class="">n</u>kirche<u class="">n</u>! ‘Let’s go to Neunkirchen!’ and the like are not double- (or triple-) marked for direction/location. </div>
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<div class="">On 11. Jan 2019, at 19:52, Ponrawee Prasertsom <<a href="mailto:ponrawee.pra@gmail.com" class="">ponrawee.pra@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">I am looking for languages where goal markers (case affixes, prepositions, etc. corresponding to English
<i class="">to</i>) developed into zero, i.e. are lost. That is, from something like
<i class="">I go to school </i>to <i class="">I go school. </i>Does anyone know of such cases?</div>
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<div class="">Currently, I am aware of only one such case: goal preposition loss on Asia Minor Greek (Karatsareas and Georgakopoulos 2016), which reconstructs history from variation among dialects (se > se/<span style="color:rgb(84,84,84);font-family:arial,sans-serif" class="">∅
> </span><span style="color:rgb(84,84,84);font-family:arial,sans-serif" class="">∅).</span></div>
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<div class="">Ideally, I would like cases with attested historical data, but reconstruction or any other relevant data such as ongoing change etc. is also welcome. </div>
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<div class="">Reference:</div>
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<div class="">Karatsareas, Petros and Thanasis Georgakopoulos. 2016. From syntagmatic to paradigmatic spatial zeroes: The loss of the preposition se in inner Asia Minor Greek. STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 69(2), 309-340.<br class="">
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<div class="">Department of Linguistics</div>
<div class=""><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px" class="">Faculty of Arts, </span>Chulalongkorn University</div>
<div class="">Bangkok, Thailand</div>
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