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Yours, Mine & Ours: What Ancient Egyptian Possessives Can Tell Us About Language Change and Stable Variation.

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Title/Author:	Yours, Mine & Ours: What Ancient Egyptian Possessives Can Tell Us About Language Change and Stable Variation./
Author:	Gardiner, Shayna.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	188 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-05A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10621598
ISBN:	9780355531718

Yours, Mine & Ours: What Ancient Egyptian Possessives Can Tell Us About Language Change and Stable Variation.
Gardiner, Shayna.

Yours, Mine & Ours: What Ancient Egyptian Possessives Can Tell Us About Language Change and Stable Variation. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 188 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2017.

Natural language variation can be thought of as two or more variants competing for use (Kroch 2001,1989). Under this model, two outcomes are possible: language change or specialization. Specialization can be then broken down into specialization for different functions, and partial specialization -- stable variation (Wallenberg 2013; Fruehwald and Wallenberg 2013).

ISBN: 9780355531718Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

Yours, Mine & Ours: What Ancient Egyptian Possessives Can Tell Us About Language Change and Stable Variation.
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520 $a Natural language variation can be thought of as two or more variants competing for use (Kroch 2001,1989). Under this model, two outcomes are possible: language change or specialization. Specialization can be then broken down into specialization for different functions, and partial specialization -- stable variation (Wallenberg 2013; Fruehwald and Wallenberg 2013).
520 $a In this historical sociolinguistic investigation, I analyze differences between stable variation and language change in Ancient Egyptian. Observing two Egyptian possessive variables -- clitic possession and nominal possession -- I compare factors affecting variant choice in each, using a dataset with a total of 4,656 possessive tokens and 495 demonstrative tokens. I use a theoretical syntactic account to make testable predictions about language change and to inform my choice of continuous factor, which provides the mechanism for stable variation (Wallenberg 2013; Fruehwald and Wallenberg 2013) -- in this case, phrase complexity.
520 $a Using distributional results, logistic regression, and logistic curves, I find that clitic possession is an instance of language change. I then combine results for demonstrative tokens with a theoretical syntactic account to explain the emergence of the innovative variant in clitic possession, and use logistic regression and conditional inferences trees to illustrate the spread of this variant across Egypt over time. I also find that possessum and text type have an effect on clitic possessive variation, supporting Egyptology-based predictions of stigmatization of the innovative variant, but providing evidence against Egyptological claims of an alienability split for this variable. Phrase complexity has an effect on clitic possession as well, perhaps the reason for the slowness of this particular language change.
520 $a Conversely, I find that nominal possession is an instance of stable variation. Possessum and possessor interact in their effect on nominal possessive variation, an effect which provides an understanding of the social meaning attached to the nominal possessive variants: one for high-status nouns, one for other types of nouns. Effects of text type and location are also present in nominal possession, but minimal. Phrase complexity is a significant factor as well, constraining variation along a continuum and supporting the claim that a continuous factor is the reason for stable variation.
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