31. Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 20172020, proceedings of peer-reviewed scientific conference contributions (international and foreign conferences) Abstract: Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2017 is a collection of fifteen articles that were prepared on the basis of talks given at the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages 12.5, which was held on December 7-9, 2017, at the University of Nova Gorica. The volume covers a wide array of topics, such as control verbs, instrumental arguments, and perduratives in Russian, comparatives, negation, n-words, negative polarity items, and complementizer ellipsis in Czech, impersonal se-constructions and complementizer doubling in Slovenian, prosody and the morphology of multi-purpose suffixes in Serbo-Croatian, and indefinite numerals and the binding properties of dative arguments in Polish. Importantly, by exploring these phenomena in individual Slavic languages, the collection of articles in this volume makes a significant contribution to both Slavic linguistics and to linguistics in general.
Keywords: Slavic, linguistics, Formal Description of Slavic Languages, control verbs, instrumental arguments, perduratives, comparatives, negation, n-words, negative polarity items, complementizer ellipsis, impersonal se-constructions, complementizer doubling, indefinite numerals, binding, Russian, Czech, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish
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32. Experimenting with Highest Conjunct Agreement under Left Branch ExtractionBoban Arsenijević, Franc Marušič, Jana Willer-Gold, 2020, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: A debate has developed in the recent theoretical and experimental linguistic literature on the status and the locus of conjunct agreement in South Slavic (SS; Marušič et al. 2007, Bošković 2009, Franks & Willer Gold 2014, Murphy & Puškar 2015; Marušič et al. 2015 and Willer Gold et al. 2016). One of the pertinent issues of the debate is the status of Highest Conjunct Agreement – agreement with the hierarchically highest conjunct (NP1) – in sentences with a preverbal subject. The question around which the debate revolves is a basic one: Is there Highest Conjunct Agreement (HCA) in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), and how is it blocked, or derived, respectively?
Keywords: syntax, agreement, conjunct agrement, left branch extraction, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
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33. Distributed agreement in participial sandwiched configurationsFranc Marušič, Andrew Nevins, 2020, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: In recent years, several proposals have appeared that try to model the patterns
of agreement with coordinate noun phrases found in South Slavic Languages. We
investigate agreement in so-called sandwiched configurations, whereby a coordinated noun phrase sits between two agreeing participles. In such cases, the two
participles do not necessarily agree with each other, given a scenario in which the
first and the second conjunct have different phi-features. This means the two participles choose their target of agreement independently. We argue the results of our
experimental study favor an approach to agreement that places it partially in PF.
Keywords: Syntax, Agreement, Coordination, sandwiched agreement
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34. Do children use language structure to discover the recursive rules of counting?Rose M. Schneider, Jessica Sullivan, Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, Priyanka Biswas, Petra Mišmaš, Vesna Plesničar, David Barner, 2020, original scientific article Abstract: We test the hypothesis that children acquire knowledge of the successor function — a foundational principle stating that every natural number n has a successor n + 1 — by learning the productive linguistic rules that govern verbal counting. Previous studies report that speakers of languages with less complex count list morphology have greater counting and mathematical knowledge at earlier ages in comparison to speakers of more complex languages (e.g., Miller & Stigler, 1987). Here, we tested whether differences in count list transparency affected children’s acquisition of the successor function in three languages with relatively transparent count lists (Cantonese, Slovenian, and English) and two languages with relatively opaque count lists (Hindi and Gujarati). We measured 3.5- to 6.5-year-old children’s mastery of their count list’s recursive structure with two tasks assessing productive counting, which we then related to a measure of successor function knowledge. While the more opaque languages were associated with lower counting proficiency and successor function task performance in comparison to the more transparent languages, a unique within-language analytic approach revealed a robust relationship between measures of productive counting and successor knowledge in almost every language. We conclude that learning productive rules of counting is a critical step in acquiring knowledge of recursive successor function across languages, and that the timeline for this learning varies as a function of count list transparency.
Keywords: Cross-linguistic
Count list
Successor function
Natural number concepts
Number acquisition
Conceptual development
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37. Looking for Cognitive Foundations of Functional SequencesFranc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, Rok Žaucer, 2019, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: With the multiplication of various functional projections, syntactic structures became very complex entities. Approaches like Cartography (e.g. Cinque and Rizzi 2008) went one step further than most other approaches, proposing that each sentence comprises of a number of universal, strictly ordered functional projections. In the noun phrase, the strictly ordered functional projections are said to be responsible not only for the relative order of numerals, demonstratives and nouns (cf. Cinque 2005), but also for the universal order of various types of adjectives (cf. Hetzron 1978; Sproat and Shih 1991; Cinque 1994; Scott 2002, etc.). Cinque and Rizzi (2008) discuss possible origins of the many hierarchies of functional projections and suggest that they might derive from general cognition. If cognition and its restrictions are behind the hierarchy of functional projections, then the order of projections hosting adjectives should be reflected in various non-linguistic cognitive processes. We designed several experiments to test this hypothesis. Our experiments did not confirm our hypothesis; but as we have also identified problems in the design of our experiments, our results do not warrant a clear rejection
of the hypothesis either.
Keywords: noun phrase, adjective ordering restrictions, functional hierarchy, experimental syntax, cognitive foundations of syntax
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38. On the nature of prenumeral adjectivesFranc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, 2019, published scientific conference contribution (invited lecture) Abstract: Following Greenberg’s generalization 20 prenominal adjectives follow numerals. In
this paper we discuss a group of adjectives that appear in unexpected positions: adjectives
preceding numerals prenominally. We argue that these adjectives violate cross-linguistic
generalizations only apparently, as the noun phrases with such adjectives actually contain
additional covert structure – structure that is not realized phonologically/phonetically.
Keywords: Greenberg’s generalization 20, adjectives, numerals, noun phrase, Slovenian syntax
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39. Tvorbeno jezikoslovje o slovenščiniFranc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, Rok Žaucer, other performed works Abstract: Tvorbeno jezikoslovje je nastalo v petdesetih letih prejšnjega stoletja in se hitro razširilo po Severni Ameriki in drugod po svetu. Spodbudilo je tudi nastanek številnih variacij osnovne ideje ter tudi tako pripomoglo k prepoznavnosti splošnega jezikoslovja. V Sloveniji je bilo tvorbeno jezikoslovje dolgo časa obrobno, četudi smo imeli s tvorbenim jezikoslovje stik že vsaj od šestdesetih let. V zadnjih letih je število tvorbenih objav o slovenščini skokovito naraslo, zaradi česar se zdi primerno narediti pregled nekaj najodmevnejših objav, ki vključujejo slovenske podatke.
Keywords: jezikoslovje, tvorbeno jezikoslovje, slovenščina, skladnja, pregled
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40. Potujoča jezikovna svetovalnica Fakultete za humanistiko (Nova Gorica)Franc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, Rok Žaucer, other performed works Abstract: Potujoča jezikovna svetovalnica Fakultete za humanistiko je bila izvedena v okviru Tedna Univerze v Novi Gorici. Prvi del svetovalnice je bil izveden v sredo, 16. oktobra 2019, od 14.30 do 16.00 na Klubu goriških študentov v Novi Gorici (Trg Edvarda Kardelja 1, Nova Gorica).
V dogodku, namenjenem predvsem dijakom, smo obiskovalcem odgovorili na vprašanja o jeziku in jim predstavili orodja, s katerimi si bodo v prihodnje pri podobnih vprašanjih lahko pomagali tudi sami. Svoja vprašanja so lahko obiskovalci posredovali tudi vnaprej, največ vprašanj pa je bilo namenjenih prevzemanju in pregibanju lastnih zemljepisnih imen.
Keywords: jezikoslovje, jezikovno svetovanje, slovenščina, pregibanje prevzemanje
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