Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie

Overabundance, wherein two inflectional affixes can express the same functional meaning is a well attested phenomenon in both Czech and Slovak declension, yet its historic origins remain understudied. This talk charts the development of overabundance from the earliest stages of Czech and Slovak to the present day and shows how a diachronic analysis of the distribution of variant forms can be used to answer wider questions both about the grammatical structure of Czech and Slovak and wider morphological theory.