[Histling-l] Deflexion query

[Freek Van de Velde]

Hi Cynthia,
Not sure if the term really originated in these publications, but the earliest references to this term I have are:

  *   Nijen Twilhaar, Jan. 1992. 'Deflexie en genusverlies'. De Nieuwe Taalgids 85: 147-160.
  *   Weerman, Fred & Petra de Wit. 1999. 'The decline of the genitive in Dutch'. Linguistics 37(6): 1155-1192.
As Johanna says, could be a 'Dutch linguistics' thing. It also features in the work of Joop van der Horst, who was a member of the PhD jury of Muriel Norde, if I remember correctly, so there is a transmission link there as well.
Best regards,
Freek Van de Velde.

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Dear Cindy, dear Nigel,



This is a standard term in Dutch linguistics, which might explain why Muriel used it. You will find it in most if not all Dutch historical reference grammars.



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Dear Cindy,
I was intrigued by your query and took a quick look at the indexes of some volumes to hand on my shelves. I found nothing in the immediately obvious places but then came across multiple references (with the spelling 'deflection') in the index of Yakov Malkiel 'From Particular to General Linguistics. Essays 1965-1978'. This a collection of his papers and the earliest that uses the term there is from 1968. He treats it as an ordinary term with no special attempt to define it so I guess it was current well before that time.
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Nigel


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Subject: [Histling-l] Deflexion query


Greetings,

I've been trying to nail down the earliest use of 'deflexion'/'deflection' in reference to loss of inflection/inflectional categories. It is not a widely used term, but has been prominently used in the early 2000s by Muriel Norde and then myself, for example. The earliest reference I have found is in Trask's (2000) The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics. I would like to find out who first used this term, and would be grateful for any earlier references.



Dr Cynthia L. Allen FAHA

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