Transitivity pairs in Baltic: between Finnic and Slavic

Nau, Nicole; Pakerys, Jurgis

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“…When Finnic, Baltic, and Slavic languages are contrasted, morphological causatives in Baltic are not as common as in Finnic, but still much more frequent than in Slavic . It is tempting to explain this tendency as reflecting the influence of neighboring Finnic languages (Nau & Pakerys 2016) . I begin by tracing the development of causatives from Proto-Indo-European to Balto-Slavic and discuss the parallels found outside the Circum-Baltic area when languages with productive morphological causatives may have stimulated the use of such causatives in the contacting languages, cf .…”

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58. Linguistisches Kolloquium: Sprachenvielfalt in der Welt und für die Welt

Volungevičienė,

Šinkūnienė,

Valiukienė

2023

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The thematic area of this year’s Conference is linguistic diversity, which we understand as diversity of cultures, diversity of attitudes and values reflected in language, and opportunities for mutual understanding and cultural enrichment. Linguistic diversity is exciting not only as a phenomenon by itself, but also as an object of research, which makes it possible to draw interesting parallels from typological and comparative perspectives as well as to investigate individual languages and viewpoints expressed in them. Linguistic diversity is also closely connected with multilingualism, which emphasises the individual and communicative aspects of linguistic diversity. In many everyday situations people communicate in several languages. Multilingual individuals or groups are more the rule than the exception, which is especially relevant in the context of small countries and small languages. Multilingualism is a way to deal with linguistic diversity on an individual level, as linguistic diversity highlights the necessity of speaking more than one language in order to understand the world and human beings better. Therefore, the topic of linguistic diversity also embraces the possibilities of learning several languages.

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58. Linguistisches Kolloquium: Sprachenvielfalt in der Welt und für die Welt

Volungevičienė,

Šinkūnienė,

Valiukienė

2023

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Labile anticausatives in Jordanian Arabic

Mashaqba

Huneety

Zuraiq

et al. 2020

Lingua Posnaniensis

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This study examines the morpho-syntax of labile anticausative structures in Jordanian Arabic (JA). Although the transitive counterpart of anticausatives is marked via morphological affixes that reflect structural and lexical components in Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, a number of verbs involving causative alternation exhibit identical forms in JA (e.g., ġala [+T] ‘to CAUSE boil something’ vs ġala [–T] ‘to BECOME boil’). Such variation poses challenges for mapping between verb morphology and its lexical semantics. To handle such variation, which is also observed cross-linguistically, we argue in favour of Schäfer (2008; 2012), Schäfer & Vivanco (2015), and Ramchand’s (2008) “causer-less” analysis over Koontz-Garboden’s (2009) “reflexive” analysis. This work further assumes the existence of a Voice phrase lacking a specifier (external argument) and assumes that Voice projection is headed by an implied Voice head (vcauser) that syntactically assigns the accusative case to its new subject and semantically encodes the internal argument and describes the resultant subevent of the verb. The work also provides an alternative solution for voice projection that lacks an explicit specifier bearing [+agent] or [+causer] feature specification. The work assumes the presence of an inchoative Voice head [vinch] introducing the Spec Voice Phrase, which encodes an inchoative resultant state of an event achieved over its theme. Contrary to Al-Qadi (2015), the present model assumes that such verbs constitute a middle position between transitive and intransitive verbs in JA but do not constitute a separate class of their own. Evidently, the correct characterization of the anticausative subclass distribution is that it surfaces wherever v is transitive as well as in intransitive volitional contexts (a non-natural class). More intriguingly, the presented material suggests that there is an ongoing process of diachronic change in spoken Arabic varieties (including JA) that amounts to the development and expansion of an inchoative class where no external or internal inchoative detransitivizing morphemes are involved. This topic, which incorporates an intriguing diachronic dimension in addition to the syntactic details, is missing from the generative literature on Arabic morpho-syntax and is potentially of sufficient interest to merit investigation.

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Transitivity pairs in Baltic: between Finnic and Slavic

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58. Linguistisches Kolloquium: Sprachenvielfalt in der Welt und für die Welt

58. Linguistisches Kolloquium: Sprachenvielfalt in der Welt und für die Welt

Labile anticausatives in Jordanian Arabic

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