This article examines the nominal inflectional system of a group of Asia Minor Greek dialects (Dawkins 1910, 1916), which developed, in parallel with the fusional inflectional system, an agglutinative one due to language contact with Turkish. We argue that the ‘old’ fusional ending or the theme vowel was reanalyzed as part of the nominal stem. This novel structure was actualized by means of two competing options: in some dialects, the reanalysis was actualized transparently in all inflectional forms rendering an agglutinative pattern of inflection, whereas in dialects with limited agglutination the actualization took the form of a special type of vowel assimilation. More specifically, as part of the nominal stem, the ‘old’ theme vowel signals its merge with the root by allowing it to absorb some or all of its features. Formally, the phonological process is treated as an instance of indirect licensing (Walker 2011), according to which the theme vowel acts as a trigger due to its privileged position as a segment of the categorizer n, i.e. the head of the stem.

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从融合到凝集：以小亚细亚希腊语为例

本文考察了一组小亚细亚希腊方言 (Dawkins 1910, 1916) 的名义屈折系统，这些方言与融合屈折系统并行发展，由于与土耳其语的语言接触而形成了粘连系统。我们认为“旧的”融合词尾或主题元音被重新分析为名义词干的一部分。这种新颖的结构是通过两个相互竞争的选项实现的：在某些方言中，重新分析在所有屈折形式中都透明地实现，呈现了一种粘着的屈折模式，而在具有有限粘着性的方言中，实现采取了一种特殊类型的元音同化的形式. 更具体地说，作为名义词干的一部分，“旧”主题元音通过允许它吸收部分或全部特征来表示它与词根的合并。正式地，