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{"title":"The Numerals Dva, Tri, Četyre in the Novgorod Birch Bark Letters: A Diachronic Perspective","authors":"Tatyana Slobodchikoff","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2022.a909905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2022.a909905","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article investigates the emergence of the cardinal numerals <i>dva</i> 'two', <i>tri</i> 'three', and <i>četyre</i> '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.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the Editors","authors":"Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; From the Editors &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Franc Marušič and Rok Žaucer &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is the second issue of volume 29. It is a special issue entitled &lt;em&gt;Exploring the impersonal domain: Empirical observations from Slavic&lt;/em&gt; and guest-edited by Katrin Schlund and Peter Kosta.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;With the completion of issue 29.1, Jordan Hussey-Andersen took over from Renata Uzzell as JSL managing editor; we thank Renata for her service, and we welcome Jordan to the team. We also thank Frank Gladney for continued help with language editing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;While this issue was in production, SLS issued a \"Position Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine\". The text is published as part of the front matter in this issue. This is an official statement of the Slavic Linguistics Society, unrelated to this special issue, and need not reflect the views of the contributors to this issue.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We welcome new submissions through our website: http://ojs.ung.si/index.php/JSL. &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 1]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;________&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;On February 24, 2022, at 05:55 Moscow time, after several weeks of military preparations along the eastern Ukrainian border, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, announced the initiation of what he referred to as a \"military operation\" in the Donbas region of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky swiftly enacted martial law and ordered a military response against the ingress of Russian troops. The combat continues to escalate; though mainly focused in the east, conflict has been reported in the major Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa. [British Broadcasting Corporation. (updated 24 February 2022). Ukraine conflict: what we know about the invasion. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60504334]&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In response to these events, the Slavic Linguistics Society issued the following statement:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Position Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;We, the Slavic Linguistics Society, are an international organization dedicated to scholarship of the Slavic languages and focused on encouraging research across a broad variety of domains in the field of Slavic Linguistics. A cornerstone of our organization and one of its founding principles is that, in contrast to other groups, the Slavic Linguistics Society maintains a panoptic approach to Slavic linguistic scholarship. We embrace research in all subfields, from various theoretical and analytical perspectives, and addressing any and all of the languages across the kaleidoscopic spectrum of Slavic. Truly, the single unifying feature of our multifaceted and diverse membership is that fundamentally we are all Slavists.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As Slavists, we are placed unequivocally within the sphere of Slavic culture and life, and therefore inevitably, politics. As such, we are not only in a position to address the ongoing situation in Ukraine, but we ar","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Morphosyntactic, Contextual, and Lexical Determinants of Non-Referentiality in Russian","authors":"Angelina Rubina, Stanley Dubinsky","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A body of previous research has established that DP structure of certain nominal expressions is optional in Russian, and that it correlates with referentiality (Longobardi 1994; Pereltsvaig 2006). This paper explores the optionality of DP projections in direct objects that are alternately marked with accusative (ACC) and genitive (GEN) case, claiming that the latter are not referential and lack a DP projection even though they are found in argument positions. Building on Longobardi's (1994) hypothesis that referentiality is encoded by DP, Pereltsvaig (2006) presents compelling evidence to show that the non-referentiality of some objects marked with non-canonical GEN is due to structure (i.e., the selection of small nominal QP complements) rather than case. Pereltsvaig (2006) shows that the apparent GEN case on bare NP non-referential objects of na-prefixed verbs is actually assigned by a null Q, with the object itself having ACC case. In this paper, we extend Pereltsvaig's account, showing that selection of non-referential QP objects can be induced by context, independently of any morphosyntactic restriction, such as compelled by a na- prefix. Here too the verbs assign ACC case to the overt or covert head of a complement QP. We also turn to lexically determined non-referentiality, such as with objects of weak intensional verbs like ždat′ 'wait for'. Non-referential objects of these verbs must also be QP projections. However, weak intensional verbs themselves turn out to assign GEN case to these non-referential QPs, in contrast with the two previous cases. We take up, in turn, the three different circumstances in which a non-referential \"small nominal\" (QP) might be introduced as an argument into the derivation: (i) morphosyntactically (objects of na-verbs), (ii) contextually (objects of non-na-verbs and non-agreeing subjects), and (iii) lexically (objects of weak intensional verbs).","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"109 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44451473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Temporal Versus Spectral Cues in L2 Perception of Vowels: A Study with Polish and Croatian Learners of English","authors":"Malgorzata E Ćavar, Emily M Rudman, Antonio Oštarić","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper reports results of an AXB perceptual test investigating participants' reliance on quality and/or duration cues in perception of English tense-lax distinction in L2 Polish and Croatian learners. Croatian participants, who have phonemic vowel length distinction in their L1, rely mainly on duration as a cue in categorization. In contrast, Polish learners rely predominantly on quality in both front and back vowels, although there is no quality contrast in back vowels in Polish that would be parallel to the tenseness contrast in English. The findings do not contradict Bohn's Desensitization Hypothesis as long as one assumes that it is contrasts and not phonemes (categories) that trigger desensitization and that L1 dominant perceptual strategies may be generalized to be used for categorization of L2 categories that have no obvious counterparts in L1. We have found that learners' strategies evolve with level of proficiency. Learners improve in the use of the dominant cues. They also improve on the contribution of cues, that is, they achieve a more native-like reliance on spectral cues. No support was found for Escudero's (2000) hypothesis that all L2 learners first go through a phase of overreliance on durational cues irrespective of the phonemic contrasts of L1.","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"107 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49142552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crnogorski jezik i nacionalizam [Montenegrin language and nationalism] by Rajka Glušica (review)","authors":"Ljiljana Đurašković","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"149 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47084079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Prosody of Ø-Suffixed Deverbal Nouns in Ukrainian","authors":"C. Y. Bethin, Maria Bloch-Trojnar, Malgorzata E Ćavar, Emily M Rudman, Antonio Oštarić, Angelina Rubina, Stanley Dubinsky, R. Cleminson, Ljiljana Đurašković","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Ukrainian Ø-suffixed deverbal nouns such as perépyt 'repeated inquiry' are derived from perfective and/or imperfective verbs (< perepytátyPFV 'to ask again, re-interrogate', perepýtuvatyIPFV 'to ask repeatedly'). In some nouns, a complete match in segments and prosody between a base and the derivative is found in the infinitival stem of either or both aspects, as in nadríz 'cut, incision', nadrízatyPFV, nadrízuvatyIPFV 'to make a slight cut'. For other nouns, a segmental match is found in the infinitival stem, but another verb form would be needed to provide the prosodic match, as in rozrýv 'rupture, break', rozryvátyIPFV, rozirvátyPFV 'to tear, rend, break apart', with a stress match only in rozrývanyjPPP. But for many nouns with stress on the prefix, as in perépyt, there simply is no derivational base available for a prosodic match. The proposal is that stress on the prefix in deverbal nouns is a morphosemantic innovation in Ukrainian motivated by hypostasis, i.e., the process of a noun becoming more concrete, designating a result or product of the action rather than nominalizing the action itself (Townsend 1980). The derivation of deverbal nouns can be seen as a stem-level process subject to a grammar with some version of Base-Derivative faithfulness (Stress Faith >> Stress Prefix). But in hypostatic masculine deverbal nouns, the prosodic adjustment takes place on words and here stress is (re)assigned to the prefix by Stress Prefix >> Stress Faith. Ukrainian thus presents a notable case of prosodically marked semantic change.","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"1 - 107 - 109 - 144 - 145 - 147 - 149 - 155 - 49 - 51 - 83 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46199230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Neo-Constructionist Account of Morphologically Null Deverbal Nominals with Argument Structure in Polish","authors":"Maria Bloch-Trojnar","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The data from Polish leaves no doubt as to the licensing of argument structure (AS) by morphologically null deverbal nominals and therefore presents a challenge to the widely held view that argument structure in nominals can only be licensed by an overt nominalizer (Alexiadou 2001, 2009; Alexiadou and Grimshaw 2008; Borer 2003, 2005, 2013). The aim of this paper is twofold: to contribute to the discussion of AS-licensing in nominals by broadening its empirical scope and to demonstrate that syntax-based approaches such as Borer's exoskeletal model can account for the data in question, providing that we allow for the possibility of synthetic spell-out of nominalized verbal stems as put forward in Fábregas 2014 for Spanish. It is demonstrated that his analysis can be extended to Polish notwithstanding its more complex verb morphology, which includes three types of prefixes (lexical, aspectual, and superlexical), secondary imperfective markers, and theme vowels.","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"51 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46828651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The development of the Bulgarian literary language: From incunabula to first grammars, late fifteenth–early seventeenth century by Ivan N. Petrov (review)","authors":"R. Cleminson","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"145 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43023309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language Loyalty and Language Purity in a Language Contact Situation: South Australian Czech","authors":"Chloe Castle","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper is a parallel study to “Czeching Out a Language Contact Situation: Grammatical Replication and Shift in South Australian Czech” (Castle forthcoming) and investigates the reasons why grammatical borrowing and attrition processes occur within the South Australian Czech community. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with six participants, yielding results including reports of cognitive pressure, structural influence and similarity, and outside societal pressure to speak English. Utilizing Thomason and Kaufman’s (1988) framework, it was found that Czech Australian participant speech was marked by characteristics placing it at level three on the borrowing scale: function words and sentence structure are borrowed from English, which correlates with participant experience with a more intense level of contact and social pressure from the larger Australian majority. Additionally, “need” (van Coetsem 2000: 215), comprising social pressure, structural similarity, and cognitive pressure, is the key factor in grammatical borrowing, transfer, and attrition processes in the Czech South Australian community.","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"1 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46351800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond emotions in language: Psychological verbs at the interfaces ed. by Bożena Rozwadowska and Anna Bondaruk (review)","authors":"J. Linde-Usiekniewicz","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"101 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45604725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}