Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Roger D. Woodard -- One Greek Reflexive Morphology / Roger D. Woodard -- Two Data / Roger D. Woodard -- Three Analysis / Roger D. Woodard -- Four Interpretation / Roger D. Woodard -- Appendix / Roger D. Woodard -- Bibliography / Roger D. Woodard -- Index / Roger D. Woodard.

In classical Attic Greek of the fifth century B.C., there are found six distinct forms of the reflexive pronoun: one form for each of the three persons of the singular and of the plural. This morphologically elaborate system is eventually replaced, however, by one in which there is only a single reflexive pronominal stem (•auto- or its variant èuto-). In On Interpreting Morphological Change, Woodard traces the course of this linguistic development through a period of approxi-mately six cen-turies. An analysis of this pr-cess of morpho-logical replacement reveals that the change is motivated by morphological redundancy and is sensitive to a hierarchy of grammatical relations.

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