[Lingtyp] history of linguistics question: inflection versus derivation

[Peter Austin]

The distinction has been prominent in morphological description of
Australian Aboriginal languages, especially the wholly suffixing languages,
following Dixon 1972 and all his subsequent work. His criteria for the
contrast were (1) linearity — derivational suffixes precede inflections
(adopting an item-arrangement morphology model) and (2) one inflection per
word. Subsequent research has shown that both criteria are violated in
particular languages, e.g. Suffixaufnahme shows two or more case
“inflections” per word is not uncommon in Australia, and instances of
“derivation” after “inflection” have been shown to occur (e.g. Jiwarli
allows the privative ‘lacking’ “derivation” after both nominal cases and
verbal dependent clause “inflection”).

DM me if you want references or more information.

Best wishes
Peter

On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 07:10, TALLMAN Adam <Adam.TALLMAN at cnrs.fr> wrote:

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> I was wondering if anyone is aware of any works that discuss the history
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> linguistics. Is there a known grammatical tradition that these concepts /
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> oldest attestations of these concepts? Are they basically in Panini? If
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> My impression is that these concepts very much ascended to 'obvious'
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> Adam James Ross Tallman (PhD, UT Austin)
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