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{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,16]],"date-time":"2023-12-16T17:15:48Z","timestamp":1702746948627},"reference-count":61,"publisher":"Walter de Gruyter GmbH","issue":"2","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,1]],"date-time":"2023-05-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1682899200000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,25]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title><jats:p>This paper investigates three morphosyntactic alternations in Estonian \u2013 those between the exterior locative cases allative, adessive and ablative and the corresponding postpositions<jats:italic>peale<\/jats:italic>\u2018onto\u2019,<jats:italic>peal<\/jats:italic>\u2018on\u2019 and<jats:italic>pealt<\/jats:italic>\u2018off\u2019. Based on the Complexity Principle (e.g., Rohdenburg, G\u00fcnter. 2002. Processing complexity and the variable use of prepositions in English. In Hubert Cuyckens &amp; G\u00fcnter Radden (eds.),<jats:italic>Perspectives on prepositions<\/jats:italic>, 79\u2013100. T\u00fcbingen: Niemeyer), we expect cognitively more complex constructions to use more explicit (i.e., morphologically more substantial) marking by means of a postposition. Further, we expect variation to be conditioned similarly in all three semantic categories. For each of the three alternations, a random sample of the two outcomes (case vs. postposition) from the Estonian National Corpus is used, resulting in 3,000 data points. Using properties of the Landmark phrase as independent variables in Bayesian mixed-effects logistic regression models, we predict the choice of postpositions over case-marked realisations. Of the patterns found, only the frequency-related one supports our complexity-related hypothesis. We conclude that the Complexity Principle, in its general form, has little explanatory power for the Estonian constructions at hand and, in particular, that the derived principle of \u2018analytic support\u2019 is not generally applicable. We show, however, that the grammatical knowledge of Estonian exterior locative cases and the corresponding postpositions is regulated by our three factors in a relatively uniform way.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1515\/cog-2021-0114","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,7]],"date-time":"2023-07-07T12:51:00Z","timestamp":1688734260000},"page":"297-331","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["The complexity principle and the morphosyntactic alternation between case affixes and postpositions in Estonian"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Jane","family":"Klavan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of English Studies , University of Tartu , Tartu , Estonia"}]},{"given":"Ole","family":"Sch\u00fctzler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universit\u00e4t Leipzig , Leipzig , Germany"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023081011515709626_j_cog-2021-0114_ref_001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Anttila, Arto, Matthew Adams & Michael Speriosu. 2010. The role of prosody in the English dative alternation. Language and Cognitive Processes 25(7\u20139). 946\u2013981. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01690960903525481.","DOI":"10.1080\/01690960903525481"},{"key":"2023081011515709626_j_cog-2021-0114_ref_002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues. 1997. Marking and hierarchy types and the grammaticalization of case-markers. Studies in Language 21(2). 313\u2013368. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1075\/sl.21.2.04ari.","DOI":"10.1075\/sl.21.2.04ari"},{"key":"2023081011515709626_j_cog-2021-0114_ref_003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Arnold, Jennifer E., Thomas Wasow, Anthony Losongco & Ryan Ginstrom. 2000. Heaviness vs. newness: The effects of complexity and