[Lingtyp] Cases of loss of goal markers

[Vladimir Panov]

Dear Ponrawee,

actually, not only in Asia Minor, but also in colloquial standard Modern
Greek goal and location markers are often dropped, e.g.

ime athina / pao athina
cop.1sg athens / go-1sg athens
'I am in Athens' / 'I am going to Athens'

Concerning Viktor Friedman's comment on Macedonian, it makes sense to test
if it might be a Balkan areal feature.

Vladimir

пт, 11 янв. 2019 г. в 20:53, Ponrawee Prasertsom <ponrawee.pra at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> --
> Ponrawee Prasertsom
>
> Graduate Student
> Department of Linguistics
> Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
> Bangkok, Thailand
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