The relationship between inflectional case marking and the emergence of definite and indefinite articles has been widely invoked but rarely tested quantitatively. This study provides a large-scale statistical evaluation across 94 Indo-European …
The synchronic distribution and diachronic trajectory of Homeric -phi(n) have been the source of long-standing debate, with the result that scholarly opinion has yet to settle on a consensus regarding the morphosyntax of forms realized by this …