| Title: | Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? : an ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in Slovenian |
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| Authors: | Simonović, Marko (Author)
Mišmaš, Petra (Author) |
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| Files: |  https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5809/
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Unknown () |
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| Tipology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | UNG - University of Nova Gorica |
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| Abstract: | This paper focuses on the e/i theme vowel class of verbs in Slovenian to bring together two seemingly unrelated debates: (i) the debate on the correlation between theme-vowel classes and certain argument structures and (ii) the debate on the status of derivational affixes within the framework of Distributed Morphology. Our core data come from a list of 108 unaccusative verbs obtained using adjectival active l-participles as an unaccusativity diagnostic. We show that (i) no unaccusative verbs belong to the two largest theme-vowel classes in Slovenian (a/a and i/i), whereas (ii) the two big theme vowel classes tend to get accusative arguments quite frequently. Most importantly, (iii) the e/i class stands out since more than one half of the unaccusative sample falls into it. The e/i class is furthermore exceptional in that its theme vowel surfaces in adjectival l-participles, it is the theme-vowel class to which inchoatives in inchoative-causative pairs belong and it behaves uniformly with respect to stress. Based on this behavior, which sets the e/i-class apart from other theme-vowel classes, we argue that the morpheme e/i is better analyzed as a derivational affix. We further argue, following Lowenstamm (2014), that derivational affixes are transitive roots rather than categorizers and propose detailed PF and LF instructions for the root under consideration. |
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| Keywords: | theme vowels, derivational roots, unaccusatives, l-participles, Slovenian |
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| Year of publishing: | 2022 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 1–31 |
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| Numbering: | iss. 1, Vol. 7 |
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| COBISS_ID: | 98070787  |
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| UDC: | 81 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2397-1835 |
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| URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:H5NA4YGN |
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| DOI: | 10.16995/glossa.5809 |
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| Views: | 415 |
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