Explorations into variation across Slavic: Taking a bottom-up approach

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“…(RU translation) Notes 1 I say here 'almost exclusively' due to the occasional use of PF present tense forms in such contexts, which I briefly address in Section 3.2.2 and in Note 10. 2 Further differences between Russian and Czech (and sometimes also other Slavic languages) have been described for imperatives (Alvestad 2013(Alvestad , 2014Benacchio 2010;Dokulil 1948;Eckert 1984;von Waldenfels 2014), as well as coincidence, instructions, commentaries (Dickey 2000).…”

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Differences between Russian and Czech in the Use of Aspect in Narrative Discourse and Factual Contexts

Gehrke

2022

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The aims of the paper are twofold. First, it provides a systematic qualitative corpus study into differences between Russian and Czech in the use of aspect in chains of single, episodic events, as well as in habitual contexts, which takes into account the role of verb class, aspectual affixes, discourse relations, and other factors contributing to the overall aspectual interpretation in a given sentence. The findings suggest that while Russian makes narrative progression and habituality visible already on the verb forms, by employing exclusively perfective and imperfective verb forms, respectively, Czech relies more heavily on the context itself and uses (im)perfective verb forms mostly to signal duration vs. change of state. The second part of the paper addresses differences in aspect use between the two languages in so-called general-factual contexts (presuppositional and existential). Against the background of the empirical findings of the corpus study, I argue against the received view that Czech makes use of imperfective verb forms to mark existential readings. The presuppositional reading of imperfective forms, which I assume to be related to the process/durative reading of imperfectives, is argued to exist in both languages.

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Differences between Russian and Czech in the Use of Aspect in Narrative Discourse and Factual Contexts

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2022

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“…In both cases, similarity of contexts is determined through the relative Hamming distance. 15 As a reviewer points out, similarly, von Waldenfels (2014) compares grammatical labels rather than lexical forms. However, crucially, while van der Klis et al.…”

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“…However, crucially, while van der Klis et al. (2017) calculates distances between contexts, von Waldenfels (2014) instead measure the dissimilarity between languages. As a result, he uses another paradigm for visualization, i.e.…”

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“… 15 As a reviewer points out, similarly, von Waldenfels (2014) compares grammatical labels rather than lexical forms. However, crucially, while van der Klis et al.…”

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“…Recently, neighbor-nets has been put forward as a related method that also operates on the language level and has similar aims ( Bryant and Moulton 2004 ), and has been successfully applied to parallel corpus data (e.g. in Dahl 2014 ; Verkerk 2014 , 2017 ; von Waldenfels 2014 ).…”

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This paper reports on the state-of-the-art in application of multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques to create semantic maps in linguistic research. MDS refers to a statistical technique that represents objects (lexical items, linguistic contexts, languages, etc.) as points in a space so that close similarity between the objects corresponds to close distances between the corresponding points in the representation. We focus on the use of MDS in combination with parallel corpus data as used in research on cross-linguistic variation. We first introduce the mathematical foundations of MDS and then give an exhaustive overview of past research that employs MDS techniques in combination with parallel corpus data. We propose a set of terminology to succinctly describe the key parameters of a particular MDS application. We then show that this computational methodology is theory-neutral, i.e. it can be employed to answer research questions in a variety of linguistic theoretical frameworks. Finally, we show how this leads to two lines of future developments for MDS research in linguistics.

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The expansion of the preposition do+genitive in North Slavic

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Explorations into variation across Slavic: Taking a bottom-up approach

Cited by 6 publications

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Differences between Russian and Czech in the Use of Aspect in Narrative Discourse and Factual Contexts

Differences between Russian and Czech in the Use of Aspect in Narrative Discourse and Factual Contexts

Generating semantic maps through multidimensional scaling: linguistic applications and theory

The expansion of the preposition do+genitive in North Slavic

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