ABSTRACT

This paper seeks to identify causal factors constraining the diachronic dynamics of particular morphosyntactic categories of Slavic. It is suggested that the modern inventory of Slavic languages is not a result of accumulation of historically accidental changes and non-changes. Instead, it is argued that macro-areal pressures constrained by the geographic location and the particular language-contact configuration determine the selection of inherited properties for either retention or loss and, subsequently, innovation. I primarily provide evidence from two categories: verbal person-number indexes (subject agreement markers) and partitivity markers and I also briefly discuss some other fusional categories.

 抽象的

本文旨在确定限制斯拉夫语特定形态句法类别历时动态的因果因素。有人认为，斯拉夫语言的现代编目并不是历史上偶然变化和不变的积累的结果。相反，有人认为，受地理位置和特定语言接触结构限制的宏观压力决定了保留或丢失的遗传属性的选择，以及随后的创新。我主要提供两个类别的证据：言语人数指数（主题一致性标记）和参与性标记，我还简要讨论了其他一些融合类别。