1. Agreement switch in verb-echo answers : evidence for distributed ellipsisGesoel Mendes, Marta Ruda, Jana Willer-Gold, Boban Arsenijević, Bojana Ristić, Nermina Čordalija, Nedžad Leko, Frane Malenica, Franc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: In this article, we claim that syntactic objects undergoing ellipsis can be targeted by both narrow syntactic and PF operations. We base this conclusion on experimental evidence from the interaction between single conjunct agreement and verb-echo answers in South Slavic, which we show to be derived via verb-stranding VP ellipsis. Adopting the view that Vocabulary Insertion replaces Q-variables on lexical heads (Halle 1991) and ellipsis is a syntactic operation which deletes Q-variables (Saab 2022), we demonstrate that constituents properly included in the ellipsis site can undergo Internal Merge in the narrow syntax, and can participate in PF processes from the derived position. The interaction between ellipsis, Internal Merge and Agree-Copy that accounts for these patterns of data follows naturally within the Distributed Ellipsis approach.
Keywords: ellipsis, agreement, South Slavic, syntax, verb
Published in RUNG: 19.07.2024; Views: 680; Downloads: 14
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2. Database of the Western South Slavic Verb HyperVerb -- DerivationStefan Milosavljević, Petra Mišmaš, Marko Simonović, Boban Arsenijević, Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Franc Marušič, Jelena Simić, Rok Žaucer, complete scientific database of research data Keywords: Slavic, verb, Slovenian, BCMS, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, verbal morphology, derivation, prefix, sufix
Published in RUNG: 27.07.2023; Views: 1900; Downloads: 17
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3. Explaining the quantitative distribution of deverbal -lac/-lec nominalizations in Western South SlavicBoban Arsenijević, Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Franc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, Stefan Milosavljević, Rok Žaucer, 2022, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: Slavic, BCS, Slovenian, nominalizations, imperfectives, perfectives, aspect, verb, morphology
Published in RUNG: 10.10.2022; Views: 1601; Downloads: 0
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4. Licensing deverbal -lac/-lec nominalizations in Western South SlavicBoban Arsenijević, Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Franc Marušič, Stefan Milosavljević, Petra Mišmaš, Marko Simonović, 2022, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Slovenian, Slavic, nominalizations, participles, imperfective verbs, perfective verbs
Published in RUNG: 26.09.2022; Views: 1663; Downloads: 0
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5. Database of the Western South Slavic verb HyperVerb 1.0Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, Petra Mišmaš, Boban Arsenijević, Marko Simonović, Stefan Milosavljević, Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Jelena Simić, 2022, complete scientific database of research data Abstract: Slavic, verb,
Keywords: Slavic, verb, inflection, theme vowel, Slovenian, BCMS, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, verbal morphology, verbal stress pattern, verbal inflection
Published in RUNG: 12.09.2022; Views: 2244; Downloads: 50
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6. 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: 2542; Downloads: 63
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7. Plavanje da, zaplavanje ne? Obrazilo -je v glagolnikih in drugih okoljih v vseslovanskem kontekstuPetra Mišmaš, Marko Simonović, Boban Arsenijević, Stefan Milosavljević, Agnieszka Będkowska-Kopczyk, Petya Rogić, Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina, 2020, published scientific conference contribution Keywords: slovanski jeziki, slovenščina, morfologija, glagolnik, nedovršnost, dovršnost
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8. 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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9. Elided Clausal Conjunction Is Not the Only Source of Closest‐Conjunct Agreement: A Picture‐Matching StudyBoban Arsenijević, Jana Willer-Gold, Nadira Aljović, Nermina Čordalija, Marijana Kresić, Nedžad Leko, Frane Malenica, Franc Marušič, Tanja Milićev, Nataša Milićević, Petra Mišmaš, Ivana Mitić, Anita Peti-Stantić, Branimir Stanković, Jelena Tušek, Andrew Nevins, 2019, original scientific article Abstract: A recurring hypothesis about the agreement phenomena generalized as closest‐conjunct agreement takes this pattern to result from reduced clausal conjunction, simply displaying the agreement of the verb with the nonconjoined subject of the clause whose content survives ellipsis (Aoun, Benmamoun & Sportiche 1994, 1999; see also Wilder 1997). Closest‐conjunct agreement is the dominant agreement pattern in the South Slavic languages Slovenian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. A natural question is whether closest‐conjunct agreement in these varieties may indeed be analyzed as entirely derived from conjunction reduction. In this article, we report on two experiments conducted to test this. The results reject the hypothesis as far as these languages are concerned, thereby upholding the relevance of models developed to account for closest‐conjunct agreement within theories of agreement.
Keywords: Conjunct agreement, Clausal conjunction, Experimental syntax
Published in RUNG: 08.04.2019; Views: 12674; Downloads: 138
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10. The importance of not belonging: Paradigmaticity and loan nominalizations in Serbo-CroatianMarko Simonović, Boban Arsenijević, 2018, original scientific article Abstract: In a number of Slavic and Germanic languages, various derivational affixes and morphological patterns of Latin origin are relatively common, and bear effects as abstract as deriving event nouns from verbs and property nouns from adjectives. This seems to contradict the general observation that abstract morphology typically is not subject to borrowing. We discuss the status of two Serbo-Croatian (S-C) nominalizing Latinate suffixes, -cija and -itet, complemented by one Germanic suffix, -er. On our analysis, these are not borrowed suffixes and derivational patterns, in the sense that they were present in another language and got copied into S-C, but rather suffixes and patterns which emerged within S-C, more specifically in the borrowed stratum of the S-C lexicon. Crucial factors in their emergence were the shared semantic properties of the nouns ending in the respective sequences (-cija, -itet and -er), and the quantitative properties of these sequences closely matching those of native derivational suffixes. Pragmatic, phonological and prosodic constraints apply to these derivations to the effect that the suffixes that have emerged in the borrowed domain of the lexicon never enter a competition with the native nominalization patterns.
Keywords: nominalisation, borrowing, loanword, language contact, Serbo-Croatian
Published in RUNG: 29.11.2018; Views: 3917; Downloads: 122
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