%0 Journal Article
%T Slavic Morphosyntax is Primarily Determined by its Geographic Location and Contact Configuration.
%A Seržant IA
%J Scando Slav
%V 67
%N 1
%D 2021
%M 35153341
暂无%R 10.1080/00806765.2021.1901244
%X 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.