Iconicity and diachrony: Ancient Greek /i-/stem
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https://doi.org/10.12795/PH.2023.v37.i01.04Keywords:
Iconicity, Diachrony, Morphosemantics, Child Language, Proper NameAbstract
The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of the Ancient Greek /i-/stem noun category from a semantic, diachronic and interlinguistic point of view, employing the main advances in categorization, phonetic iconicity, linguistic acquisition and proper name theory, focusing, unlike other precedent papers (Monzó 2016; 2017; 2019), on the role of phonetic iconicity of [i] in the historical development of the category. This approach shows, as a result, the semantic nature of Ancient Greek noun stems and suggests a close correlation between the palatal phoneme /i/ and the expression of affection in this language, which is understood as the iconic origin of the emergence of the /-i/ suffix, the main morphological feature of the category.
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