{"id":291,"date":"2019-11-07T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/?p=291"},"modified":"2019-11-12T15:57:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:57:55","slug":"north-saami-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/2019\/11\/07\/north-saami-project\/","title":{"rendered":"North Saami Possessive Constructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Principal investigators:<\/strong> Laura A. Janda and Lene Antonsen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project title:<\/strong> North Saami Possessive Constructions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary of the project: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>North Saami is replacing the use of possessive suffixes on nouns with a morphologically simpler analytic construction. Our data (&gt;2K examples culled from &gt;.5M words) track this change through three generations, covering parameters of semantics, syntax and geography. Intense contact pressure on this minority language probably promotes morphological simplification, yielding an advantage for the innovative construction. The innovative construction is additionally advantaged because it has a wider syntactic and semantic range and is indispensable, whereas its competitor can always be replaced. The one environment where the possessive suffix is most strongly retained even in the youngest generation is in the Nominative singular case, and here we find evidence that the possessive suffix is being reinterpreted as a Vocative case marker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project duration: <\/strong>2015 \u2013 present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key publications: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Janda, Laura A., Lene Antonsen. \u201cThe ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity\u201d. <em>Diachronica<\/em> 33:3 (2016), 330-366. DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1075\/dia.33.3.02jan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1075\/dia.33.3.02jan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antonsen, Lene, Laura A. Janda. \u201c\u010cohkkejitgo bohccuideaset vai ie\u017easet bohccuid? \u2013 Oamastanr\u00e1hkadusat davvis\u00e1mi girjj\u00e1la\u0161vuo\u0111as [Do they collect their (marked with possessive suffix) reindeer or do they collect their (marked with genitive reflexive pronoun) reindeer? Possessive constructions in North Saami prose]\u201d. 2016 <em>S\u00e1mis<\/em> 21, 12-15.<\/p>\n<p>Antonsen, Lene, Laura A. Janda. \u201cOamastanr\u00e1hkadusat davvis\u00e1mi girjj\u00e1la\u0161vuo\u0111as [Possessive constructions in North Saami prose]\u201d. <em>Die<\/em><em>\u0111ut<\/em> 2(2015), 9-43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal investigators: Laura A. 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