The Numerals Dva, Tri, Četyre in the Novgorod Birch Bark Letters: A Diachronic Perspective

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Tatyana Slobodchikoff
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This article investigates the emergence of the cardinal numerals dva 'two', tri 'three', and četyre 'four' in nominal phrases in the Novgorod dialect during the 11th–15th centuries. An innovative approach presented here brings together three productive lines of inquiry—corpus analysis, historical linguistics, and diachronic generative syntax. A corpus analysis was conducted to identify 301 tokens of numeral-containing NPs and to trace the patterns of their diachronic development. The cardinal numerals 2, 3, 4 are shown to evolve from the adjectival "number" words through the process of grammaticalization, more specifically, numeralization. After the loss of dual number, the lower adjectival "number" words for 2, 3, and 4 turned into the cardinal numerals, as their lexically encoded numerosity became functionally encoded countability. The diachrony of the cardinal numerals in the Old Novgorod dialect has shown that the cognitive concepts of cardinality, individuality, and countability are inextricably connected. These concepts are grammatically encoded and subject to diachronic change. This study has demonstrated that a change in grammatical number (loss of the dual) led to the restructuring of countability and the rise of cardinal numerals.

数字Dva, Tri, Četyre在诺夫哥罗德桦树皮信件:历时的观点
摘要:本文研究了11 - 15世纪诺夫哥罗德方言中名义短语中基数数字dva“二”、tri“三”和 etyre“四”的出现情况。这里提出了一种创新的方法,汇集了三种富有成效的研究方法——语料库分析、历史语言学和历时生成语法。通过语料库分析,确定了301个包含数字的np符号,并追踪了它们的历时发展模式。基数数词2,3,4是由形容词“数词”演变而来的,经过了语法化的过程,更具体地说,是数字化的过程。在失去了对偶数之后,表示2、3和4的较低的形容词“数”词变成了基数数,因为它们的词汇编码的数量变成了功能编码的可数性。古诺夫哥罗德方言中基数数词的历时性表明,基数性、个体性和可数性的认知概念是密不可分的。这些概念在语法上进行了编码,并受到历时变化的影响。该研究表明,语法数的变化(失去对偶)导致可数性的重组和基数数字的增加。
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Journal of Slavic Linguistics
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期刊介绍: Journal of Slavic Linguistics, or JSL, is the official journal of the Slavic Linguistics Society. JSL publishes research articles and book reviews that address the description and analysis of Slavic languages and that are of general interest to linguists. Published papers deal with any aspect of synchronic or diachronic Slavic linguistics – phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics – which raises substantive problems of broad theoretical concern or proposes significant descriptive generalizations. Comparative studies and formal analyses are also published. Different theoretical orientations are represented in the journal. One volume (two issues) is published per year, ca. 360 pp.
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