syntax of Slavic predicate case

Abstract

In this article I provide a syntactic framework for case patterns found in Slavic secondary predicates.

Argument structure of mental predicates in Russian: interaction of semantic, syntactic and discourse factors

“…Дж. Бейлин (Bailyn 2001) Другой же вариант состоит в том, чтобы считать прономинализацию семантическим процессом: она заменяет клаузу при глаголе считать во второй части высказывания, но не требует такой же модели управления в первой части предложения.…”

Raising and control in non-finite clausal complementation

“…Bailyn (1995Bailyn ( , 2012 attempts to apply the binding test and the depictive tests, initially proposed by Barss and Lasnik (1986), and argues that their results support the Accusative above Dative configuration. However, as later noted by Dyakonova (2009) Second, Bailyn notes that indirect objects of ditranstive verbs are never visible for instrumental depictives (ii) (adjunct PredPs with a controlled PRO subject, see Bailyn and Citko (1998), Bailyn (1995Bailyn ( , 2001, Franks and Hornstein (1992), and Richardson (2001Richardson ( , 2003, a.o. ), and assumes this to be evidence for the low structural position of dative DPs.…”

“…The former includes, for instance, object movement to the Spec,TP, followed by rightward movement of the nominative subject, which results in OVS word order (Bailyn 2018;Pereltsvaig 2019); compare, for instance, (34a) and (34b), where an argument in the Spec,TP c-commands and binds a reciprocal within the lower argument, regardless of its thematic roles and syntactic functions. For detailed discussions of scrambling in Russian I refer the reader to Bailyn (1995Bailyn ( , 2003Bailyn ( , 2012 and Dyakonova (2009).…”

“…Kiss (1998), a.o., assumes that there are dedicated TopP, topP, FocP projections above the TP (36). The adjunction approach, advocated by Bailyn (1995Bailyn ( , 2012, Junghanns and Zybatow (1997), Pereltsvaig (2004), Slioussar (2007), and Scott (2012), rejects the idea of the 'fixed' left periphery and tentatively suggests that topic and focus constituents occupy adjunct positions / multiple specifiers at the CP/TP levels (37). Both frameworks, however, agree on one particular type of fronted construction -namely, contrastive -to topics.…”

“…Short adjectives have been extensively discussed in the literature in comparison with long forms (see Siegel 1976;Babby 1973Babby , 1994Bailyn 1994;Zaliznjak 2002;Halle and Matushansky 2006;Grashchenkov and Grashchenkova 2007;Geist 2010, andBorik 2014, a.o). Recall that short adjectives and predicatives are prohibited in the attributive function and are always used as primary predicates; furthermore, they are never marked for case.…”