This Strong Sibilant:  on the Morphological Potential of the Phoneme s in Swedish

The phonetically strong whistling s is widely used in the inflectional morphology as well as in the word-formation patterns of the Swedish language that are connected with the former. In the noun paradigm -s is the agglutinative marker of the genitive case and derivatively a connective consonant found in a considerable number of compounds. In the verbal paradigm it is the marker of the synthetic form of the passive and of the deponent verbs with inactive voice semantics derived from nominal bases. The use of the final -s can be observed in some other morphological models too. A variant form of participle 1 that has developed by analogy with adverbs derived from nominal phrases with the genitive marker, has long existed in the language, though it failed to get the status of the literary norm. The final -s is widely represented in the word-formation structure of a number of other lexemes and fixed phrases with adverbial semantics. The ever-growing number of English nouns with the plural marker -s borrowed by Swedish suggests a tendency towards the formation of a new declension type. A number of lexemes have undergone the process of metanalysis, whereby -s has become the final sound of the Swedish lexeme. This contributes to prosodical assimilation, allowing to preserve the short vowel, protected by the final consonant +s. Thus phonomorphology reveals the complex intrasystemic links between inflection and word-formation, although there are cases where the boundaries become blurred.

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Swedish, phonomorphology, voiceless whistling, inflexional morpheme, word-formative pattern, prosodic assimilation

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16.01.2022

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25.04.2022

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GOST	Chekalina E. This Strong Sibilant: on the Morphological Potential of the Phoneme s in Swedish // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2022. – V. 81. – Issue 2 C. 71-77 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S160578800019460-2-1 (circulation date: 29.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S160578800019460-2
MLA	Chekalina, Elena M "This Strong Sibilant: on the Morphological Potential of the Phoneme s in Swedish." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 81.2 (2022):71-77. DOI: 10.31857/S160578800019460-2
APA	Chekalina E. (2022). This Strong Sibilant: on the Morphological Potential of the Phoneme s in Swedish. Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 81(2), pp.71-77 DOI: 10.31857/S160578800019460-2

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