(Re-)lntroducing Suffixaufnahme

Abstract

Abstract Although not a household term (yet), Suffixaufnahme has a typological record that is astonishingly long for a rare and seemingly marginal phenomenon. This unsung record merits retracing. As will emerge from the historical narrative to follow (Section 2), the morphological and syntactic issues that Suffixaufnahme has now and then been seen to raise are not really so marginal, and indeed are issues that contemporary typology is increasingly recognizing as formidable challenges. They involve the limits on case marking and on agreement; the word-class distinction of nouns and adjectives, the difference between inflection and derivation, and the status of genitives and other possessive forms in these two respects; the nature of attribution; noun-phrase constituency and, generally, the depth or flatness of syntax; and systematic interdependencies among all kinds of further structural features. In the remaining sections the approach will be systematic rather than historical, presenting the comparative anatomy of Suffixaufnahme in broad outline, to be fleshed out in the rest of this volume.

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