Sentential homophony: A case study of if-clauses in Russian

Steriopolo, Olga

doi:10.1007/s11185-016-9168-7

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“…In sum, the Oromo diminutive manifests stacked nPs where the highest n feature is the gender of the whole nominal. Cross-linguistically, this pattern has also previously been reported for Somali (Kramer 2015), German (Wiltschko 2007), Dutch (Dressler & Barbaresi 1994) and Russian (Steriopolo 2008).…”

Section: Gurbaasupporting

confidence: 80%

Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*

Feleke

Lohndal

2023

Studia Linguistica

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This study aims to (1) demonstrate the position of the Oromo gender system in Corbett's (1991) typology of gender; (2) illustrate major syntactic gender variation across the Oromo dialects; (3) identify factors that contributed to the gender variation, and (4) illustrate the morphosyntax of the Oromo gender system. The data obtained from the Oromo Speech Corpus shows a high degree of lexical and syntactic variation between the Western‐Northern dialects on the one hand, and the Eastern‐Southern dialects on the other hand. The Western and Northern dialects have shifted from the historically Cushitic phonology‐based gender assignment pattern to the semantic‐based assignment pattern. This shift has resulted in a widespread neutralization of feminine gender markers. The contact between Oromo and the neighboring non‐Cushitic languages contributed to these changes. The study also argues that Kramer's (2015) morphosyntactic approach can be extended to the analysis of Oromo gender system.

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Section: Gurbaasupporting

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Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*

Feleke

Lohndal

2023

Studia Linguistica

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“…Slavic languages display a range of morphologically distinct and lexically specified derivational morphemes expressing a diminutive-like meaning (see, for example, Steriopolo 2008, Wiltschko & Steriopolo 2007, Khrizman 2019. Here, we are only concerned with the default and fully productive form which appears to be derived by k as this is the only morpheme that feeds into the functional variability in the centre of our research investigation.…”

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“…West Slavic k does not yield augmentatives. There are other lexically specified derivational morphemes, some of them based on morphemes possibly related to k, such as -isko as in the Czech chlapisko 'a large dude' (derived from chlap 'dude'), that yield related meanings (Steriopolo 2008, Khrizman 2019. None of them, to our knowledge, feeds into a double augmentative formation.…”

Section: I M I N U T I V E S T H E I R D O U B L E S and F R I E N D Smentioning

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Underspecification of nominal functional categories in Arabic and West Slavic

Kučerová,

Szczegielniak

2022

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Assuming that features on functional heads are variables (Borer 2005), we expect to find syntactic operations and functional elements that target and manipulate these variables beyond matching and valuation in agree. We argue that such syntactic operations and functional elements exist. This paper presents such a functional element: a polarity operator manipulating features of a nominal functional head it modifies. The empirical motivation for our proposal comes from parallel systematic homophony over the same set of functional interpretations and features within the nominal extended projection in West Slavic (here, Czech and Polish) and Arabic dialects, primarily Levantine Arabic.

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“…The first work within the DM framework was a doctoral dissertation by Bonet (1991) on Catalan opaque clitics, followed by a well-known article by Halle & Marantz (1993) on DM and the pieces of inflection. The DM framework was further developed by Halle (1997), Marantz (1997Marantz ( , 2001, Harley & Noyer (1999, 2003, Bobaljik (2002), Lecarme (2002), Marvin (2002), Arad (2003), Halle & Matushansky (2006), Embick & Noyer (2007), Lowenstamm (2007), Embick & Marantz (2008), Steriopolo (2008Steriopolo ( , 2009, Acquaviva (2009), Kramer (2009Kramer ( , 2014, Steriopolo & Wiltschko (2010), Fábregas (2013, and Matushansky & Marantz (2013), among many others.…”

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“…A CASE STUDY OF RUSSIAN Steriopolo (2008Steriopolo ( , 2009 showed that there are two semantic types of Russian expressive suffixes: attitude and size. Attitude suffixes express attitudes and emotions.…”

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Expressives Across Languages: Form/Function Correlation

Steriopolo

2016

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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This article presents a review of works on expressive linguistic objects in the Principles and Parameters framework ( Chomsky 1995a , b ; 2001 ). It discusses case studies of expressives in Russian, German, Halkomelem, Maale, Walman (Valman), Kolyma Yukaghir, Itelmen, Tongan, and Spanish, as well as in Breton and Yiddish. The article demonstrates that two semantic types (size and attitude) of expressives correspond to a great variety of syntactic structures across languages, as well as within a single language (e.g., Russian). It shows that there is no direct one-to-one correlation between the form and function of expressives, which has important implications for the syntactic–semantic mapping of categorization ( Wiltschko 2008 , 2014 ). This review is of interest to theoretical linguists, language-area specialists, and language typologists. It is also relevant to the fields of education and endangered Aboriginal language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization, as one-third of languages investigated here are endangered and on the verge of extinction (e.g., Halkomelem, Itelmen, Kolyma Yukaghir, Walman).

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Sentential homophony: A case study of if-clauses in Russian

Cited by 3 publications

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Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*

Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*

Underspecification of nominal functional categories in Arabic and West Slavic

Expressives Across Languages: Form/Function Correlation

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