Chapter 7. The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in Old North Russian

Kwon, Kyongjoon

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“…The fact that AUX and pronouns share the same kind of features suggests a possibility that they may shift to each other. Kwon (2009:164–165) cites a pronoun‐to‐copula change in Polish (Citko 2008) and a copula‐to‐pronoun shift in Turkish (Katz 1996), arguing that this kind of shift is also observed in Old North Russian. I partially share Kwon's view by arguing that AUX was reanalyzed as a subject pronoun, but unlike his proposal, I suggest that this change was not a dialectally limited phenomenon.…”

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“…In the case of the Old North Russian AUX in patterns (17a) and (17b), the strict complementary distribution between AUX and overt subject pronouns even more clearly indicates that they are essentially the same category, i.e., subject pronoun (Zaliznjak 2004, 2008; Kwon 2009; Meyer 2011; Jung & Migdalski 2015). The difference between Old North Russian and other dialects such as Old Central Russian lies in whether two different DPs may be utilized to meet subject condition and fill the topic position or a single argument must do the both.…”

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“…In (22), the AUX jesmĭ triggers person agreement on the finite verb xoščü in the same way as the strong pronoun azŭ ‘I’ would do (Zaliznjak 2004:179; Kwon 2009). Examples such as in (22) are not limited to texts in Old North Russian, which again shows that the subject reanalysis of AUX is not a dialectally limited phenomenon.…”

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Thebe‐auxiliary's categorial status in Old Russian1

Jung

2020

Studia Linguistica

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This article proposes that the present tense forms of the be-auxiliary byti (AUX) in Old Russian should be identified as weak pronouns, based on their prosodic, morphological, and syntactic properties. The loss of AUX in Old Russian, which distinguishes East Slavic from West and South Slavic languages, is ascribed to the competition between AUX and strong subject pronouns as a consequence of the reanalysis of AUX as a weak subject pronoun. This reanalysis was triggered by the early loss of synthetic past tenses in Old Russian. The AUX's position to the right of pronominal clitics indicates that the AUX remains in its initial merge position either as an auxiliary verb or as a subject pronoun. The co-occurrence of AUX in situ and a null subject in Old Russian implies that rich verbal agreement and null subjects are unrelated with verb raising to I 0. *I thank Henning Andersen, Wayles Browne, Steven Franks, Ora Matushansky, Krzysztof Migdalski, and many others, who gave me helpful comments while I developed this project. Some parts of this work have been presented at conferences including Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 23 (UC Berkeley, 2014). 1 Zaliznjak (2008:248, 260-262) observes that the auxiliary system began to visibly change during the second half of the 16 th century and that the auxiliary was practically out of use in spoken language in the 17 th century.

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Section: The Categorical Status Of or Auxmentioning

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Thebe‐auxiliary's categorial status in Old Russian1

Jung

2020

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“…In this representation, elided elements (for discourse-motivated purposes, see further Kwon (2009) for the omission of a personal pronoun in the presence of an auxiliary verb in Old Novgorod dialect) are marked in angle brackets and the nominal phrase including what for is in square brackets. The surface order in (6a) would follow the nominal phrase [cto za klucka] at the initial state splits via wh-word fronting.…”

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Reanimating voices from the past: an alternative reading of Novgorod Birch Bark Letter N370

Kwon

2016

Russ Linguist

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The present paper offers an alternative reading of the Novgorodian birch bark letter N370. As a čelobitie 'petition', this letter contains the peasants' angry voice, which may at the same time be subdued due to their social status. This paper aims to uncover its undertone. I suggest that cto 'what' and za klucka (lit.) 'for steward' should form an idiomatic čto za phrase and the pragmatic nature of the letter comports well with the proposed reading. Then, I argue that the word ležini is not a verb in the imperative mood combined with a negative particle (leži imp.sg ne) but rather a noun that means a person lying down, capitalizing highly on the punctuation and other linguistic clues. I address the interpolation issues in otъje(z)de 'go away' and (o)kradoni 'robbed', restructuring hidden intentions. Finally, I suggest that N370 contains two sets of distinct voices, one antagonistic and the other propitiative. I will argue that the concept of collective writing as displayed in N370 is reflected in the parallelism that exists in the composition and the nuanced tone of the different voices in the letter.Аннотация Статья предполагает альтернативное истолкование новгородской бере-стяной грамоты 370. Являясь челобитной, данная грамота выражает возмущенный голос крестьян, который, в то же время, может быть приглушен из-за их социального статуса. В статье делается попытка обнаружить эту скрытую окраску. Предполагает-ся, что цто и за клvцка формируют идиоматическую фразу что за, и прагматический характер этого письма хорошо подходит к предложенной интерпретации. Принимая в расчет пунктуацию и другие языковые маркеры, мы считаем, что лjжини-это не

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“…For detailed discussions of the categorial status of the auxiliary byti in Old Russian, seeKwon (2009) andJung (2020).journal of slavic linguistics[44.224.250.200] ProjectMUSE (2024-06-03 22:56 GMT) …”

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Toward a four-way pronoun hierarchy: A view from Slavic

Jung,

Migdalski

2022

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This paper examines how grammatical categories are structured in classes with different degrees of syntactic deficiency, paying special attention to pronouns. We take Cardinaletti & Starke's (1999) tripartite classification of pronouns as a starting point of our discussion and show that their three-way distinction is not sufficient to fully capture the phenomenon, based on old and modern Slavic data. We also demonstrate that their "Minimize Structure" principle is challenged by diachronic data from Slavic.

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Chapter 7. The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in Old North Russian

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Thebe‐auxiliary's categorial status in Old Russian1

Thebe‐auxiliary's categorial status in Old Russian1

Reanimating voices from the past: an alternative reading of Novgorod Birch Bark Letter N370

Toward a four-way pronoun hierarchy: A view from Slavic

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