{"title":"On the Morphosyntax of Russian Verbal Aspect","authors":"F. Gladney","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2019.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2019.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Aspect is a syntactic feature of the sentence predicate, the Infl head of which is generated +Pfv or –Pfv and +Past or –Past. Verb forms comply with these features or are Inflected for them. Prefix-verb compounds are not stored in the lexicon but are base-generated in the sentence. They provide the environment for the Secondary Imperfective Rule, which assigns the feature +Iter to V when it contains a prefix. This feature governs the introduction of themes between the verb root and the ending. The +Iter feature can also be generated with the verb independently of the SIR, thus yielding the so-called procedurals. With unprefixed verbs aspectual patterning is a matter of their form (thematization) and their meaning. Those that are grammatical in +Pfv predicates are +Telic (have a telos or goal). This depends on their formal and semantic properties and ultimately on the intention of the speaker.","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"137 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsl.2019.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42680432","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 prehistory of the Balto-Slavic accent by Jay H. Jasanoff (review)","authors":"Ronald F. Feldstein","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2019.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2019.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"221 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsl.2019.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47955621","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":"Studies in phonological theory and historical linguistics by Bill J. Darden (review)","authors":"R. Derksen","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2019.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2019.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"213 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsl.2019.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42873822","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":"Phonological Words in the Syntax and in the Lexicon: A Study of Russian Prepositions","authors":"M. Gouskova","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2019.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2019.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Phonological words play a crucial role in phonology, but where exactly they are produced in syntax is not clear. I propose a theory whereby the syntax issues phonological word diacritics to the complex constituents it creates. Additionally, certain morphemes can be specified in the lexicon as possessing these diacritics. The phonology then interprets the diacritics—sometimes it ignores them, and other times it makes phonological words to satisfy language-specific prosodic requirements. The resulting theory is demonstrated on the complex patterning of prepositions in Russian. The class of prepositions in Russian has certain syntactic traits in common, but there are many patterns where prepositions diverge according to their phonological word status. There are correlations between morphosyntactic structure and phonological word status: morphologically complex prepositions are always words. On the other hand, the presence of a morphological root, phonological size, and stress do not align with word status. The large range of phonological and morphosyntactic patterns involving prepositions in Russian demonstrates the need for an explicit and rich theory of word formation at the phonology-syntax interface.","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"161 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsl.2019.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48314050","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":"Struktura imennoj gruppy v bezartiklevom jazyke [Structure of the Noun Phrase in an articleless language] by Ekaterina A. Lyutikova (review)","authors":"Nerea Madariaga","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2019.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2019.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"227 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsl.2019.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44100922","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":"North Slavic -ě vs. South Slavic -ę: A Problem of Forward Reconstruction","authors":"Ronald I. Kim","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2019.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2019.0000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>The long problematic correspondence of North Slavic <i>-ě</i> ~ South Slavic <i>-ę</i> in the <i>jo</i>-stem accusative plural and <i>jā</i>-stem genitive singular and nominative and accusative plural is best explained by positing a Proto-Slavic contrast within the soft <i>jā</i>-stems between gen. sg., nom. pl. *<i>-ē</i> and acc. pl. *<i>-ę̄</i>, which was leveled in different directions as NSl <i>-ě</i> and SSl <i>-ę</i>. With its nasal vowel, the acc. pl. ending must go back to *<i>-jāns</i>, thereby demonstrating that the PIE <i>eh2</i>-stem desinence *<i>-eh2s</i> > *<i>-ās</i> was remade to *<i>-āns</i> after the other declensional classes in the early prehistory of Slavic. The Baltic facts are consistent with a Proto-Balto-Slavic date for this innovation.</p>","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsl.2019.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41688224","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 Effects of Animacy and Givenness on Object Order in Croatian Child Language","authors":"M. Velnić","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2019.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2019.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study investigates how givenness and animacy influence object order (IO-DO vs. DO-IO) in ditransitive constructions in Croatian child language. We have conducted an elicitation task with 59 monolingual Croatian children (mean age = 4;4) and 36 adult controls (mean age = 21), in which the participants were asked to describe images depicting ditransitive actions. These actions differed with regard to givenness (DO given, or IO given) and animacy (IO animate, or both IO and DO animate). Both groups demonstrated an animacy effect, manifested as a significant increase of DO-IO productions when both objects were animate, compared to when only the IO was; adults presented DO-IO preference at ceiling level. Givenness had a statistically significant effect (p-value < 0.01) only in adults, but both groups were affected by the givenness of the DO. This paper supplies arguments to support previous indications that (1) DO-IO is the underlying order in Croatian ditransitives, and (2) that children do not have an IO-DO preference as has been reported by previous studies conducted on case-marking languages.","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"125 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsl.2019.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46162960","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":"Clitic Pseudo-Climbing out of Dependent Infinitive Phrases in Serbian","authors":"Jasmina Milicevic","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2019.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2019.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The paper describes the linear placement of Serbian clitics syntactically depending on an infinitive in the role of verbal, nominal, or adjectival complement (for short, infinitive clitics). Two linear placement options are in principle available for the infinitive clitics: local placement (in the second linear position [2P] of the infinitive phrase, where they form a cluster of their own) and clause-level placement (in the 2P of the clause, where they join clause-level clitics). Syntactic and prosodic conditions licensing these placement options are discussed and the corresponding clitic linearization rules proposed within a Meaning-Text dependency-based approach to syntax (Mel′čuk 1988, 2013; Polguère and Mel′čuk 2009). It is shown that clause-level placement of 2P clitics (unlike that of ad-verbal clitics of the Romance type) does not require the change of the syntactic governor of the clitics and should therefore be set apart from genuine clitic climbing. This is why the corresponding phenomenon is termed \"clitic pseudo-climbing\".","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"27 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsl.2019.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46128224","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":"Heritage languages and their speakers by Maria Polinsky (review)","authors":"D. Šipka","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2019.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2019.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"127 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsl.2019.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41553055","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}