1. Modeling gender variation in Russian indeclinable nouns : optimality over structuralism, hierarchical MaxEnt, and degrees of idiosyncrasyVarvara Magomedova, Kirill Chuprinko, Natalia Slioussar, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: In this paper, we provide an analysis of the grammatical gender of 131 inanimate
indeclinable Russian nouns based on the data from the General Internet Corpus
of the Russian Language. We demonstrate that most nouns show substantial variation,
being used in two or even in all three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter.
We identify several factors affecting this, primarily the gender of the semantic analogy
noun and the root-final vowel. We argue that these data can be used to compare
several major morphological frameworks and conclude that some approaches, namely
optimality-theoretic probabilistic ones, are better suited to account for them. We also
compare different models within the chosen set of approaches and show that the hierarchical
Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) models are superior to the classical MaxEnt
models.
Keywords: gender, MaxEnt, indeclinable nouns, gender agreement, gender variation, Russian, corpus data
Published in RUNG: 16.05.2025; Views: 114; Downloads: 1
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2. On complex adjectival phrases in Standard ArabicYahya Aldholmi, Hamid Ouali, Tue Trinh, 2019, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: Natural language differs from artificial ones in having the “displacement property,” allowing expressions to “move” from one position to another in the sentence. The mapping from syntax to phonology, therefore, must include rules specifying how objects created by movement are pronounced, or in technical jargon, how chains are linearized. One of these rules is Copy Deletion. The present study investigates the structural description of Copy Deletion. Specifically, it proposes a phrase geometric constraint on its application. The proposal is corroborated by empirical arguments based on distributional and interpretational facts concerning predicate clefts, NP-Splits, and head ordering patterns. The data are drawn from languages of different types and families including Chinese, English, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Norwegian, Swedish, and Vietnamese. The book, thus, contributes to our understanding of a crucial property of natural language and should be of relevance to readers who are interested in the cross-linguistic approach to Universal Grammar research.
Keywords: adjectives, case, agreement, definiteness, resumption
Published in RUNG: 13.01.2025; Views: 544; Downloads: 4
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3. 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: 1679; Downloads: 19
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5. Feature assignment errors in the Bulgarian quantified noun phraseDanil Khristov, Arthur Stepanov, Julie Franck, Penka Stateva, 2022, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: feature assignment, agreement, attraction, errors, linear distance, structural distance, plural forms, count forms
Published in RUNG: 17.08.2022; Views: 2562; Downloads: 12
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6. Investigation of Slovenian copular agreementFranc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, 2021, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: This paper reports on a detailed investigation of agreement inside simple predicative sentences. In this type of sentence, both noun phrases are in the nominative, so in principle
either one can trigger agreement on the copular verb. We examine various types of copular
contructions and show that regardless of the type of predicative sentence, when a plural
is combined with a singular, it is always the plural that agrees. Similarly, when a dual is
combined with a singular, the dual wins out. But when we combine a dual and a plural, the
copula can agree with either of the two noun phrases, with a preference for the noun phrase
following the copula. We discuss the relevance of these findings for recent literature on
predication.
Keywords: agreement, copula, number, singular, dual, plural, Slovenian
Published in RUNG: 31.01.2022; Views: 2987; Downloads: 0
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7. Experimental syntax and Slavic languagesArthur Stepanov, 2021, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: The chapter reviews a number of empirical domains that recently came into the focus of research in Slavic experimental syntax, including island phenomena, syntactic Superiority effects, various types of agreement, word order, and scope interaction, among others. This research mostly relies on sentence acceptability experiments applied across larger pools of participants, but the chapter also reviews selected studies using related experimental methods (e.g. elicited production and sentence–picture verification). The chapter concludes by identifying a number of conceptual issues in syntactic theory, for which we believe Slavic experimental syntax has a potential to make a particularly strong contribution.
Keywords: experimental syntax, Slavic language, syntactic island, unaccusativity, information structure, superiority effect, case matching, agreement, numeral phrase
Published in RUNG: 20.12.2021; Views: 4072; Downloads: 18
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8. 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: 2939; Downloads: 0
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