Email this article 
Post a Comment Case marking and definiteness in Slavic appositional constructions
Abstract
This paper is a corpus-based study of Slavic appositional constructions. Out of material taken from seven Slavic languages, two aspects of the morphosyntax of close appositions in Slavic are considered: case concord and definiteness marking. The first section of the paper considers the factors that affect case concord in appositions in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Polish, Croatian, and Slovenian. Based on the data of the corpora it is shown that in all seven languages, inherent plurality and frequency of proper names significantly affect the probability of concord being present. Moreover, it is shown that the likelihood of concord differs across cases, and almost all languages considered follow the case hierarchy GEN>DAT>LOC>INS. The second portion of the paper considers definiteness marking in Bulgarian and Macedonian appositional constructions. Based on the obtained data, it is argued that appositions with different lexemes can have different syntactic structures in these languages.
DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2022.11.1.11
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Acuña-Fariña J. C., On apposition, English Language and Linguistics, 3/1, 1999, 59–81.
Acuña-Fariña J. C., Aspects of the grammar of close apposition and the structure of the noun phrase, English Language and Linguistics, 13/3, 2009, 453–481.
Bauer B., Nominal apposition in Indo-European: Its forms and functions, and its evolution in Latin-Romance, Berlin, 2017.
Belaj B., Some notes on the head–modifier relation in certain types of apposition in Croatian, I. Palić, M. Drkić, eds., Sarajevski filološki susreti: zbornik radova, Sarajevo, 2014, 110–128.
Biryla M., Shuba P., eds., Belaruska hramatyka u dzviukh chastkakh, 1: Fanalohiia. Arfaėpiia. Marfalohiia. Slovoŭtvarėnne, Minsk, 1985.
Burton-Roberts N., Nominal apposition, Foundations of Language, 13, 1975, 391–419.
Chafe W., Discourse structure and human knowledge, J. Carroll, R. Freedle, eds., Language Comprehension and the Acquisition of Knowledge, Washington, 1972, 41–69.
Golub I., Stilistika russkogo iazyka, Moscow, 2016.
Graudina L., Grammaticheskaia pravil′nost′ russkoi rechi. Opyt stilisticheskogo slovaria variantov, Moscow, 1976.
Haugen E., On resolving the close apposition, American Speech, 28, 1953, 165–70.
Hockett C., Attribution and apposition in English, American Speech, 30, 1955, 99–102.
Keizer E., The English noun phrase. The nature of linguistics categorization, Cambridge, New York, 2007.
Kliuchkovs′kyi B., Do pytannia pro apozytsiiu i strukturno-hrammatychni sposoby ïï vyrazhennia v ukraïns′kiǐ movi, Problemi syntaksysu. Prytsi mizhvuzivs′koǐ naukovoï konferentsii z pytan′ syntaksysu, 74–84, Lviv, 1962.
Kopotev M., K postroeniiu chastotnoi grammatiki russkogo iazyka: padezhnaia sistema po korpusnym dannym, Slavica Helsingiensia, 34, 2008, 136–151.
Kulyk B., Kurs suchasnoï ukraïns′koï movy, 2: Syntaksys, Kyiv, 1961.
Laskowski R., Markedness and the category of case in Polish, Markedness in synchrony and diachrony, O. Miseska Tomić, ed., Berlin, New York, 1989, 207–227.
Lee D., Close apposition: an unresolved pattern, American Speech, 27/4, 1952, 268–275.
Marković I., Hrvatska apozitivna sintagma i sintaksa imenâ, Folia Onomastica Croatica, 17, 2008, 119–37.
Matushansky O., The case of close apposition. Talk at the symposium “(Ap)positive thinking in linguistics”, Groningen, January 20, 2012 (http://www.trees-and-lambdas.info/matushansky/; last access on: 01.08.2022).
Meyer C., Apposition in Contemporary English, Cambridge, New York, 1992.
Mizak A., Konstruktsii s prykladkoiu v anhlyǐskiǐ i krain′skiǐ movakh, Inozemna filolohyia, 7, Lviv, 1966, 13–17.
Mladenova O., Definiteness in Bulgarian: Modelling the Processes of Language Change, Berlin, 2007.
O’Connor K. M., Patin C., The syntax and prosody of apposition in Shingazidja, Phonology, 32/1, 2015, 111–145.
Pereira J. C., Pérez Gaztelu E., Aposizioa euskal hitz-elkarteetan, Anuario Del Seminario De Filología Vasca “Julio De Urquijo”, February, 2002, 467–478.
Pereltsvaig А., Small nominals, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 24, 2006, 433–500.
Quirk R., Greenbaum S., Leech G., Svartvik J., A comprehensive grammar of the English language, London, 1985.
Sesar D., Apozicija i predikatni atribut u sintaktičkoj raščlambi pojedinih slavenskih jezika, Eadem, ed., Slavenski jezici u usporedbi s hrvatskim, 3, Zagreb, 2013, 95–112.
Shvedova N. Yu., Bryzgunova E. A., Gabuchan K. V., Itskovich V. A., Russkaia grammatika, 2: Sintaksis, Moscow, 1980.
Stoianova D., Observații cu privire la apoziția nominală în limbile română și bulgară, Studii si cercetări linguistice, 2, 1993, 101–112.
Stojanov S., Gramatika na bălgarskija knizhoven ezik, Sofia, 1964.
Superanskaya А., Obshchaia teoriia imeni sobstvennogo, Moscow, 1973.
Usikova R., Grammatika makedonskogo literaturnogo iazyka, Moscow, 2003.
Zbróg P., Grupy apozycyjne w staropolszczyźnie, Warszawa, 2019.
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2022 Natalia N. Logvinova
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.