[Lingtyp] Cases of loss of goal markers

Fri Jan 11 22:53:10 UTC 2019

Dear Ponrawee,

There are several examples in:
Thomas Stolz, Nataliya Levkovych and Aina Urdze. 2017. When zero is just enough … In support of a Special Toponymic Grammar in Maltese. Folia Linguistica 51(2): 453–482
Here’s the abstract
This study provides evidence in favor of a Special Toponymic Grammar by discussing instances of zero-marking of spatial relations in selected languages, with special focus on Maltese. It is shown that zero-marking is often a privilege of toponyms, which sets them apart from common nouns. Special attention is paid to the differential behavior of sub-classes of toponyms and their (dis)similarity to common nouns. The most appropriate way of capturing the observed structural variation within and across languages is that of the continuum.

Best
Greville Corbett

On 11 Jan 2019, at 22:28, Viktor Elšík <viktor_elsik at hotmail.com<mailto:viktor_elsik at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Dear Ponrawee,

some varieties of Romani (Indo-Aryan) of Slovakia and Hungary (and some Romani varieties possibly of other regions, too) allow the omission of spatial goal (and sometimes also stative location) marking.

In Kisbajom Romani (spoken in a village in southwestern Hungary), the preposition /ande/ "in, to"may be omitted when it encodes goal or location with named inhabited localities, i.e. towns and villages (Bodnárová 2015: 237).
https://www.academia.edu/37054094/Vend_Romani_a_Grammatical_Description_and_Sociolinguistic_Situation_of_the_so-called_Vend_dialects_of_Romani

In Selice Romani (spoken in a village in southwestern Slovakia; my fieldwork), zero marking may occur with common institutional goals, e.g. /džas (andi) búti?/ [go.PRES.2SS # into.DEF.F.SG # work] "are you going to (your) work(place)?" or /džav (andi) iškola/ [go.PRES.1SG # into.DEF.F.SG # school] "I'm going to school". (Names of localities require overt locative case marking in this variety, e.g. /džav Požomate/ [go.PRES.1SG # Bratislava.LOC] "I am going to Bratislava".)

Best regards,

Viktor Elšík
Department of Linguistics
Charles University, Prague
Czech Republic

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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Cases of loss of goal markers

In southwestern Macedonian (and increasingly in colloquial Macedonian in general)
goal & location, which in the standard language are realized by the same preposition (v/vo 'in, to' na 'on/at, onto/to' depending on the noun)
& the preposition can be realzied as Ø
e.g. odam vo Bitola 'I'm going to Bitola' > odam Bitola
and also jas sum vo Tetovo [na teren] 'I'm in Tetovo' [in the field] > Jas sum Tetovo [na teren]
NB teren 'field' as in 'field work', i.e. a place one goes to for professional reasons.

Victor A. Friedman
Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, University of Chicago
Research Professor, La Trobe University
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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Cases of loss of goal markers

Dear colleague,

Something like that happened in quite a few Northern Chinese dialects. Generally, however, while the goal marker (you could say it's a suffix on the verb) in itself disappeared, it generally leaves a trace on the verb root, in terms of tone change (something like ablaut in Indo-European languages).

A couple of accessible references on this:
https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01283726/document (by C. Lamarre)
https://brill.com/view/journals/bcl/8/1/article-p5_3.xml (by myself).

Best,

Giorgio

Il giorno ven 11 gen 2019 alle ore 19:53 Ponrawee Prasertsom <ponrawee.pra at gmail.com<mailto:ponrawee.pra at gmail.com><mailto:ponrawee.pra at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
Dear all,

I am looking for languages where goal markers (case affixes, prepositions, etc. corresponding to English to) developed into zero, i.e. are lost. That is, from something like I go to school to I go school. Does anyone know of such cases?

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/∅ > ∅).

Ideally, I would like cases with attested historical data, but reconstruction or any other relevant data such as ongoing change etc. is also welcome.

Reference:

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.

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Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
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