21. Gender agreement with exclusive disjunction in SlovenianFranc Marušič, Zheng Shen, 2021, original scientific article Abstract: This paper addresses two issues: 1. Empirically, we report novel experimental data on agreement with exclusively disjoined subjects in Slovenian; 2. Theoretically, we look into the nature of attested agreement strategies with coordinated NPs. In particular, we investigate how these strategies behave under coordinators with different semantics, i.e. exclusive disjunction and conjunction. Based on the elicitation results, we argue that closest conjunct agreement, resolved agreement, and highest conjunct agreement are all present under exclusive disjunction to different extents, which suggests a uniform set of agreement strategies under disjunction and conjunction despite the semantic difference. Further, we argue against the presence of default agreement under both disjunction and conjunction in Slovenian, and argue for a particular set of gender resolution rules.
Keywords: Slovenian, conjunct agreement, exclisuve disjunction, resolution, default agreement
Published in RUNG: 15.11.2021; Views: 1623; Downloads: 0
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22. Razvoj slovničnih in kognitivnih zmožnosti večjezičnih otrok v primerjavi z enojezičnimi : magistrsko deloFranc Vaupotič, 2021, master's thesis Abstract: Magistrsko delo se osredotoča na primerjavo med enojezičnimi in dvojezičnimi otroki, ne da bi se ozirali na njihovo jezikovno zmožnost in delovni spomin. Predstavljam rezultate eksperimentalne študije, ki obsega dve vrsti testov. Glavni cilj raziskave je odgovoriti na vprašanje, ali obstaja povezava med jezikovnim razvojem in delovnim spominom ter ovrednotiti vlogo dvojezičnosti v tem kontekstu. Zanima me, ali obstaja razlika v slovničnih in kognitivnih sposobnostih med enojezičnimi govorci slovenskega in zgodnje slovensko-italijanskega dvojezičnega jezika. V eksperimentu so sodelovali otroci, stari 10, 12 in 14 let. V tem delu sem sledil modelu preučevanja dvojezičnega razvoja otrok, uporabljenega v štirih študijah: Bialystok in drugi (2010), ki primerjajo besedišče večjezičnih govorcev z enojezičnimi; Stateva in drugi (2021), ki preiskujejo vpliv dvojezičnosti na pragmatične sposobnosti; Antonio in Katzos (2017), ki raziskujeta potencialni vpliv večjezičnosti na razumevanje posledic ter Stepanov in drugi (2020), ki proučujejo vpliv dvojezičnosti na delovni spomin. Rezultati dela kljub nekaterim dvomom kažejo številne prednosti večjezičnosti.
Keywords: večjezičnost, enojezičnost, usvajanje jezika, pragmatika
Published in RUNG: 19.10.2021; Views: 2464; Downloads: 98
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23. Dual in SlovenianFranc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, 2021, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: Slovenian is one of only three contemporary Slavic languages that productively uses the dual. The other two are Upper and Lower Sorbian. In this chapter, we will outline the present-day use of the dual in Slovenian, generally ignoring historical aspects, for which see, i.a., Tesnière (1925a), Belić (1934), Jakop (2008), Olander (2015). Also, the description will primarily be based on standard Slovenian as described/prescribed in Toporišič et al. (2001), mainly ignoring the great variation across different varieties
of Slovenian (cf. Tesnière 1925a,b, Jakop 2008) in the actual forms of dual marking and the extent to which dual forms are distinct from the plural. The paradigms presented in the next section exist in entirety only in few dialects and in the prescribed standard variety. A small number of dialects of the South West, along the border between Italy and Slovenia, and the dialects of the South, along the border with Croatia, are without most of the dual forms and in some cases without the dual altogether, but for the most part, different dialects exhibit different amounts of dual
forms. Central Slovenian dialects and dialects of the North and North-East use dual fully productively (cf. Jakop 2008 and Marušič et al. 2016 for a comprehensive map of the distribution of dual in Slovenian dialects).
Keywords: Slovenian, grammatical number, dual, meaning of dual
Published in RUNG: 13.08.2021; Views: 1729; Downloads: 0
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25. Do Slavic secondary imperfectives contain multiple theme vowels?Stefan Milosavljević, Marko Simonović, Boban Arsenijević, Petra Mišmaš, Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, 2021, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: Slavic, morphology, secondary imperfectives, theme vowels
Published in RUNG: 17.05.2021; Views: 2056; Downloads: 62
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26. Adjective ordering and extralinguistic cognitionFranc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, Rok Žaucer, Luka Komidar, Gregor Sočan, 2021, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: adjectives, general cognition, experimental syntax, cognitive foundations, syntax
Published in RUNG: 14.05.2021; Views: 2099; Downloads: 57
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28. Do children derive exact meanings pragmatically? Evidence from a dual morphology languageFranc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, Amanda Saksida, Jessica Sullivan, Dimitrios Skordos, Longlong Wang, David Barner, 2021, original scientific article Abstract: Number words allow us to describe exact quantities like sixty-three and (exactly) one. How do we derive exact interpretations? By some views, these words are lexically exact, and are therefore unlike other grammatical forms in language. Other theories, however, argue that numbers are not special and that their exact interpretation arises from pragmatic enrichment, rather than lexically. For example, the word one may gain its exact interpretation because the presence of the immediate successor two licenses the pragmatic inference that one implies “one, and not two”. To investigate the possible role of pragmatic enrichment in the development of exact representations, we looked outside the test case of number to grammatical morphological markers of quantity. In particular, we asked whether children can derive an exact interpretation of singular noun phrases (e.g., “a button”) when their language features an immediate “successor” that encodes sets of two. To do this, we used a series of tasks to compare English-speaking children who have only singular and plural morphology to Slovenian-speaking children who have singular and plural forms, but also dual morphology, that is used when describing sets of two. Replicating previous work, we found that English-speaking preschoolers failed to enrich their interpretation of the singular and did not treat it as exact. New to the present study, we found that 4- and 5-year-old Slovenian-speakers who comprehended the dual treated the singular form as exact, while younger Slovenian children who were still learning the dual did not, providing evidence that young children may derive exact meanings pragmatically.
Keywords: Acquisition of quantity expressions, Acquisition of exactness, Pragmatics of grammatical number, Inferences on quantity, Dual, Slovenian
Published in RUNG: 13.12.2020; Views: 2459; Downloads: 0
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