caa a22 4500 378924400 CHVBK 20180305123613.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040607xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/zfgl.2004.32.2.233 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zfgl.2004.32.2.233 Leiss Elisabeth Submorphematische Motiviertheit als Grammatikalisierungsergebnis: zur Grammatikalisierung von Reflexivpronomen [Submorphematic motivatedness as a result of grammaticalization: on the grammaticalization of reflexive pronouns] [Elektronische Daten] [Elisabeth Leiss] Grammaticization theory gives a lot of evidence that grammatical polysemy is the normal case whereas grammatical homonymy is more and more seen to be just a case of undetected polysemy. Identical forms are linked together by a common path of grammaticization. They are therefore necessarily related in meaning. Due to this insight Grammaticization theory has completely undermined an important part of the axiomatics of linguistics: The so-called arbitrariness of the relation between meaning and form may be nothing more than a yet undetected motivated relation between different stages of grammaticizational processes. The present paper aims at finding undetected polysemy even at a submorphematic level. In order to exemplify this approach the German reflexive pronoun sich is splitted into the segments s- and -ich. It is suggested that the homonymy of the second segment with the first personal pronoun ich   is just a case of undetected polysemy. The intention of this at first glance donquijotical approach to morphology is to provoke believers in homonymy to make more efforts to prove their own approach. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure nationallicence Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik Walter de Gruyter 32/2(2004-06-07), 233-244 0301-3294 32:2<233 2004 32 zfgl https://doi.org/10.1515/zfgl.2004.32.2.233 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zfgl.2004.32.2.233 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Leiss Elisabeth NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik Walter de Gruyter 32/2(2004-06-07), 233-244 0301-3294 32:2<233 2004 32 zfgl CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter