1. How departicipial are "L-participle" nominalisations in Western South SlavicMarko Simonović, Petra Mišmaš, Stefan Milosavljević, Boban Arsenijević, Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, 2025, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: We focus on nominalisations seemingly derived from l-participles, illustrated by lec-nominalisations in Slovenian, in order to establish the nature and position of the l-morpheme as well as the structure of these nominalisations in general. Our research is situated in the current debates on whether the item l in l-participles and l-nominalisations is the same morpheme or two different morphemes, and if the former, whether l-nominalisations are derived from l-participles. We argue that the l-morpheme is a root in both, but also show that it is not the case that lec-nominalisations contain l-participles. The lec-nominalisations are argued to contain a smaller structure than the corresponding l-participle, which is also reflected in the set of theme vowels possible in these nominalisations.
Keywords: Slovenian, participles, nominalisations, morphology, root, affix
Published in RUNG: 23.05.2025; Views: 43; Downloads: 0
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2. 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
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3. Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? : an ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in SlovenianMarko Simonović, Petra Mišmaš, 2022, original scientific article 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.
Keywords: theme vowels, derivational roots, unaccusatives, l-participles, Slovenian
Published in RUNG: 18.02.2022; Views: 3464; Downloads: 71
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