Replication data for: The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexitydoi:10.18710/4XTXMHDataverseNO2016-04-062Janda, Laura A.; Antonsen, Lene, 2016, "Replication data for: The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity", https://doi.org/10.18710/4XTXMH, DataverseNO, V2Replication data for: The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexitydoi:10.18710/4XTXMHJanda, Laura A.Antonsen, LeneUiT The Arctic University of Norway2016DataverseNOThe Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)Janda, Laura2016-04-012016Arts and HumanitiesNorth Saamipossessive suffixUralicS-curvevocativepossessionlanguage changecomplexityMorphologydiachronicaffixesNorth Saami is replacing the use of possessive suffixes on nouns with a morphologically simpler analytic construction. Our data (>2K examples culled from >.5M words) track this change through three generations and parameters of semantics, syntax, and geography. Intense contact pressure on this minority language probably promotes morphological simplification, yielding an advantage for the innovative construction. The innovative construction is additionally advantaged because it has a wider syntactic and semantic range and is indispensable, whereas its competitor can always be replaced. The one environment where the possessive suffix is most strongly retained even in the youngest generation is in the Nominative singular case, and here we find evidence that the possessive suffix is being reinterpreted as a vocative case marker. The files make it possible to see all of our data and to do the statistical analysis and plots in R.NorwaySwedenFinlandNorthern ScandinaviaSápmicorpusAntonsen, Lene; Janda, Laura A., 2015, "Replication data for: Possessive constructions in North Saami prose", https://doi.org/10.18710/SE00DS, DataverseNO, V2Janda, L. A., & Antonsen, L. (2016). The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity. Diachronica, 33(3), 330–366. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.33.3.02jan10.1075/dia.33.3.02janJanda, L. A., & Antonsen, L. (2016). The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity. Diachronica, 33(3), 330–366. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.33.3.02janAnnotatedSentences.txtThis file contains the sentences that constitute our database, along with their annotations. Most of the annotations are explained in the Readme file for Diachronica CART. This file additionally cites the works of the authors that the sentences are taken from and gives some additional details concerning the semantic classes of possessums.text/plain; charset=UTF-8DiachronicaCART.csvThis file contains the input data for the CART analysistext/plain; charset=US-ASCIIDiachronicaCode.RThis is the R code for the CART analysis.text/plain; charset=UTF-8DiachronicaRcode.txtThis is the code from the R script in .txt format.text/plain; charset=UTF-8Figure2.pdfThis is the classification tree generated by the R code and presented as Figure 2application/pdfFigure3.pdfThis is the diagram of variable importance that is represented in Figure 3application/pdfReadme file for DiachronicaCART.txtThis is the readme file that explains the columns and values for the .csv file.text/plain; charset=UTF-8Scurve.csvThis file contains the data used to generate Figure 1, showing the proportion of the ReflN (innovative possessive construction) plotted against year of birth for authors of literary works. The file has eleven rows, one for each author in our database. Column A shows the name of each author. Column B shows the year each author was born. Column C shows the number of NPx (possessive suffix) constructions used by that author in our database. Column D shows the number of ReflN (analytic) constructions used by that author in our database. Column E = Column D / Column C, or the proportion of ReflN for each author.text/plain; charset=US-ASCIIScurve.pdfThis is a pdf of Figure 1.application/pdfScurveCode.txtThis file contains the R code used to generate Figure 1.text/plain; charset=US-ASCII