1. Nego-tiating inequalities: SerBo-Croatian nego in comparatives and coordination : lecture at the Formal Description of Slavic Languages 17, Brno, November 21, 2024Madeleine Butschety, 2024, prispevek na konferenci brez natisa Ključne besede: comparatives, coordination, serbo-croatian, slovenian, equatives, multifunctionality, adversative coordination, adjective, preposition Objavljeno v RUNG: 27.11.2024; Ogledov: 140; Prenosov: 0 Povezava na datoteko Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
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, zaključena znanstvena zbirka raziskovalnih podatkov Ključne besede: Slavic, verb, Slovenian, BCMS, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, verbal morphology, derivation, prefix, sufix Objavljeno v RUNG: 27.07.2023; Ogledov: 2236; Prenosov: 19 Celotno besedilo (8,08 KB) Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
3. Licensing deverbal -lac/-lec nominalizations in Western South SlavicBoban Arsenijević, Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Franc Marušič, Stefan Milosavljević, Petra Mišmaš, Marko Simonović, 2022, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Ključne besede: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Slovenian, Slavic, nominalizations, participles, imperfective verbs, perfective verbs Objavljeno v RUNG: 26.09.2022; Ogledov: 1916; Prenosov: 0 Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
4. 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, zaključena znanstvena zbirka raziskovalnih podatkov Opis: Slavic, verb, Ključne besede: Slavic, verb, inflection, theme vowel, Slovenian, BCMS, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, verbal morphology, verbal stress pattern, verbal inflection Objavljeno v RUNG: 12.09.2022; Ogledov: 2496; Prenosov: 53 Povezava na celotno besedilo Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
5. Measuring free word order: Some empirical and modeling perspectivesArthur Stepanov, predavanje na tuji univerzi Opis: Languages manifesting flexibility of word order (within the sentence's compositional meaning) have always presented a challenge for modern theories of syntax requiring any deviation from the canonical word order to be grammatically motivated. Parasyntactic motivations such as information structural or stylistic requirements may account for some portion of this flexibility, but not all of it. In addition, native speakers do not necessarily accept canonical and non-canonical word orders to an equal extent. In fact, the latter typically receive lower acceptability scores than the former, albeit above the subjective threshold for what would count as "ungrammatical". Some of the combinatorially possible word orders are not acceptable at all. In this experimental study we scrutinize different word order sequences in a free word order language (Serbo-Croatian) and attempt to isolate independent displacement factors responsible for various elements of the sentence appearing away from their canonical structural positions. We explore differential and cumulative effects of these independent factors to predict speakers' acceptability scores. Ključne besede: Free word order, experimental syntax, Serbo-Croatian, sentence acceptability task Objavljeno v RUNG: 11.02.2021; Ogledov: 3320; Prenosov: 0 Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
6. Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 20172020, zbornik recenziranih znanstvenih prispevkov na mednarodni ali tuji konferenci Opis: 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. Ključne besede: 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 Objavljeno v RUNG: 02.06.2020; Ogledov: 3621; Prenosov: 193 Celotno besedilo (2,12 MB) |
7. Experimenting with Highest Conjunct Agreement under Left Branch ExtractionBoban Arsenijević, Franc Marušič, Jana Willer-Gold, 2020, objavljeni znanstveni prispevek na konferenci Opis: 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? Ključne besede: syntax, agreement, conjunct agrement, left branch extraction, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Objavljeno v RUNG: 18.05.2020; Ogledov: 3762; Prenosov: 0 Gradivo ima več datotek! Več... |
8. The importance of not belonging: Paradigmaticity and loan nominalizations in Serbo-CroatianMarko Simonović, Boban Arsenijević, 2018, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: 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. Ključne besede: nominalisation, borrowing, loanword, language contact, Serbo-Croatian Objavljeno v RUNG: 29.11.2018; Ogledov: 4133; Prenosov: 123 Celotno besedilo (378,27 KB) |
9. Prosody preservation and borrowing verbs as nouns in three systems with lexical prosodyMarko Simonović, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Opis: The claim by Moravcsik (1975) that “if verbs are borrowed, they seem to be borrowed as if they were
nouns” generated a long-standing discussion within language contact research (see e.g. Wohlgemuth
2009 for a recent summary). More precisely, the claim was that “the borrowing language employs its
own means of denominal verbalization to turn the borrowed forms into verbs”. This can be interpreted
either as a statement about the integration pattern (which may not be mentally represented in
monolinguals) or as a claim about the syntactic representation of borrowed verbs in general, whereby
borrowed verbs contain an nP embedded under the vP. Both interpretations constitute important
hypotheses, which can serve as useful windows into the relation between morphology and phonology.
The rst
interpretation is compatible with the claim by Simonović (2015) that the integration pattern
essentially gets selected by Lexical Conservatism (Steriade 1997): the pattern with most preservation of
the properties of the base and least stem allomorphy integrates loanwords. The second interpretation
makes important predictions whose implementation is highly dependent on the theory of morphology
employed. In this presentation I use a recent elaboration of Distributed Morphology in which the
separation between roots and categorial heads is extended to derivational suxes
(Lowenstamm 2015)
and put it to use in accounting for verb borrowing and denominal verbalisation in three Western South
Slavic varieties: Slovenian, Western Serbo-Croatian (henceforth Croatian) and Eastern Serbo-Croatian
(henceforth Serbian). All three varieties have lexical prosody. Slovenian has lexically determined stress.
In Serbo-Croatian each word has a lexically determined H, and stress assignment follows from its
distribution: if the syllable with a H is initial, italso gets stress; if the syllable with a H is non-initial, the
stress goes to the preceding syllable, forming a disyllabic rising accent (Zsiga & Zec 2013).
Simonović (2018) discusses exceptional preservation of base prosody in Western South Slavic verbs,
showing that WSS verbsallow only two prosodic shapes: stress/H stem-nally
(1a)and stress/H on the
theme vowel (1b), analysed as the contrast between accented and accentless roots. The only verbs
which ever display more contrast are borrowed and denominal verbs (2). Since nouns generally allow
more prosodic contrast than verbs (Smith 2011), Simonović (2018)argues that verb prosody should be
viewed as the regular WSS prosody, whereas all the cases of additional contrast should beanalysed asa
consequence of special Faithfulness, and, at least for the classes discussed by Simonović (2018),asingle
type of special Faithfulness seems to be sucient:
NF
Smith
2001).
Against the sketched background, variation within WSS is analysed. All three varieties have two
patterns for denominal verbs which both allow for exceptional preservation of the base prosody: -a-ti
and -ov-a-ti (illustrated in 2a; a isatheme vowel in both cases, ti is the innitive
ending). Tellingly, each
variety now hasastabilised borrowing pattern in which one of the two suxes
is used for English verbs
(illustrated in 2b). The necessity ofa denominal verbalisation analysis is relatively limited for Slovenian
and Croatian, where a large majority of verbs (but not all) become reanalysable as verbalised accented
roots (all the verbs in 3 have a stem-nal
stress/H). For Serbian, however, virtually all borrowed verbs
from the modern contact with English display the intermediate root -ov-, which makes the denominal
verbalisation analysis very attractive. Completing the picture for all three varieties, we turn to older
borrowed verbs, especially those from the contact preceding the one with English, in which alarge class
of international verbs were integrated and in which no prosodic contrast is instantiated (4).
In sum, the deverbal nominalisation analysis seems to beastrong cross-linguistic tendency rather than
an absolute rule and its availability depends both on the phonological makeup of the available
denominal verbalisation patterns and on the amount of prosodic contrast in the source language.
(1) Slovenian Croatian Serbian
a. Accented √ gléd-a-ti ‘to look’ gléHd-a-ti ‘to look’ gléHd-a-ti ‘to look’
b. Unaccented √ kop-á-ti ‘to dig’ kóp-aH
-ti ‘to dig’ kóp-aH
-ti ‘to dig’
(2) Slovenian Croatian Serbian
a. Denominal verbs málic-a-ti ‘to snack’ úH
žin-a-ti úH
žin-a-ti
(cf. málica ‘snack’) (cf. úH
žin-a ‘snack’) (cf. úH
žin-a ‘snack’)
vér-ov-a-ti ‘to believe’ vjéH
r-ov-a-ti ‘to believe’ v(j)éH
r-ov-a-ti ‘to believe’
(cf. vér-a ‘faith’) (cf. vjéH
r-a ‘faith’) (cf. v(j)éH
r-a ‘faith’)
b. Borrowed verbs édit-a-ti ‘to edit’ rikvéH
st-a-ti ‘to request’ rikvéH
st-ov-a-ti ‘to request’
tríger-a-ti ‘to trigger’ inváH
jt-a-ti ‘to invite’ inváH
jt-ov-a-ti ‘to invite’
(3) Borrowed verbs which can be reanalysed as verbalised accented root
Slovenian Croatian
sénd-a-ti ‘to send’ séHnd-a-ti ‘to send’
submít-a-ti ‘to submit’ éHdiH
t-a-ti ‘to edit’
(4) International verbs
Slovenian Croatian Serbian
Innitive
asist-ír-a-ti asist-í:r-aH
-ti asist-í:r-aH
-ti
Present.1Pl asist-ír-a-mo asíst-i:H
r-a:-mo asíst-i:H
r-a:-mo
Innitive
fotograf-ír-a-ti fotograf-í:r-aH
-ti fotográf-iH
s-a-ti
Present.1Pl fotograf-ír-a-mo fotográf-i:H
r-a:-mo fotográf-iH
š-e:mo-mo
Innitive
protest-ír-a-ti protest-í:r-aH
-ti próteH
st-ov-a-ti
Present.1Pl protest-ír-a-mo protést-i:H
r-a:-mo próteH
st-uj-e:-mo
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10. There is Faith and Faith: prosodic contrast in Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian verb derivationMarko Simonović, 2018, objavljeni povzetek znanstvenega prispevka na konferenci Ključne besede: Verbs, Prosody, Optimality Theory, Distributed Morphology, Faithfulness, Theme vowels, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian Objavljeno v RUNG: 12.06.2018; Ogledov: 4750; Prenosov: 213 Celotno besedilo (28,54 KB) |