[Histling-l] Deflexion query

[Uni KN]

Cynthia,  are you really interested in terms for loss of inflection in general, by whatever means (‘deflexie’ in Dutch, ‘Flexionsschwund’ in German …), or more specifically for the rare case of the reananlysis/degrammaticalisation of inflectional (word-)affixes as clitics (or phrase affixes or what not).  Isn’t it just the latter that has latterly sometimes been called ‘deflection/deflexion’ in English?   

Frans  
 

> On 19. Mar 2021, at 08:48, Cynthia Allen <cynthia.allen at anu.edu.au <mailto:cynthia.allen at anu.edu.au>> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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