{"title":"Neo-Štokavian deverbal je-nominalisations contain passive participles","authors":"Marko Simonović","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2022.a923074","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<small>abstract</small>\n<p>An analysis is presented for the prosody of four groups of forms (infinitive, present tense, passive participle and the deverbal noun) of the most numerous theme-vowel class in Neo-Štokavian (characterised by the theme vowel <em>i</em>). A cyclic analysis of <em>en</em>-participles and <em>je</em>-nominalisations is proposed, showing that the latter contain the former. As noted in traditional grammars, this approach is challenged by the fact that <em>je</em>-nominalisations typically have the prosodic pattern of the infinitive, while the <em>en</em>-participle displays a neutralisation of lexical prosody. The analysis demonstrates that <em>en</em>-participles are indeed contained in <em>je</em>-nominalisations, but do not trigger a phonological cycle in them, which is why tonal contrasts survive.</p>","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2022.a923074","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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An analysis is presented for the prosody of four groups of forms (infinitive, present tense, passive participle and the deverbal noun) of the most numerous theme-vowel class in Neo-Štokavian (characterised by the theme vowel i). A cyclic analysis of en-participles and je-nominalisations is proposed, showing that the latter contain the former. As noted in traditional grammars, this approach is challenged by the fact that je-nominalisations typically have the prosodic pattern of the infinitive, while the en-participle displays a neutralisation of lexical prosody. The analysis demonstrates that en-participles are indeed contained in je-nominalisations, but do not trigger a phonological cycle in them, which is why tonal contrasts survive.
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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.