Do Russian paucal numerals govern the genitive? Evidence from stress placement

Nesset, Tore; Nordrum, Maria

doi:10.1007/s11185-019-09209-7

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“…The topic has been widely discussed in the literature (and is still being debated). For more complete descriptions and hypotheses from colleagues belonging to different schools I shall refer to the following: Akiner 1983, Babby 1987, Corbett 1983, Franks 1995, Kim 2009, Madariaga & Igartua 2017, Mel´čuk 1985, Nesset 2019, Nesset & Nordrum 2019, Pereltsvaig 2013, Viellard 2011and Žolobov 2003, among others. Hence, I do not intend to add anything to this topic, but rather I shall mention some of the peculiarities of West Polesian.…”

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A very unpredictable ‘person’: A corpus-based approach to suppletion in West Polesian

Roncero

2022

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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In Slavic languages, as in many other languages, the noun for person has a suppletive paradigm. Yet, as this study shows, in West Polesian (East Slavic) the noun person is a typological outlier not only within Slavic but also cross-linguistically because it combines three stems with a very complex distribution. This paper looks for any regularities in the distribution of these suppletive stems, their cognates among other Slavic languages and how speakers use them in free texts. This survey provides novel insights into suppletion. First, suppletion involving more than two stems is typologically uncommon but the West Polesian noun person combines three. Second, against any expectation of regularity for the sake of learnability, free-text data show that speakers do not distribute the stems homogeneously. Third, notwithstanding the diglossic situation in Western Polesie, the inter- and intra-speaker variation in the choice of stem does not seem particularly conditioned by sociolinguistic variables such as gender, age or social class. In sum, this corpus survey of the suppletive stems of person in West Polesian and Slavic illustrates a rare case in morphological typology where there is a three-stem suppletion combined with overabundance and a vast amount of variation across speakers.

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A very unpredictable ‘person’: A corpus-based approach to suppletion in West Polesian

Roncero

2022

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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Нестандартные Количественные Конструкции В Русской Речи Носителей Нанайского И Ульчского Языков

Stoynova

2021

Russ Linguist

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Language Change and Cognitive Linguistics

Nesset

2022

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The purpose of this Cambridge Element is to bring together three subfields of the language sciences: cognitive, historical (diachronic), and Russian linguistics. Although diachrony has inspired a number of important works in recent years, historical linguistics is still underrepresented in cognitive linguistics, and the most influential publications mainly concern the history of English. This is an unfortunate bias, especially since its lack of morphological complexity makes English a typologically unusual language. In this Cambridge Element, the author demonstrates that Russian has a lot to offer the historically oriented cognitive linguist, given its well-documented history and complex phonology and morpho-syntax. Through seven case studies the author illustrates the relevance of four basic tenets of Cognitive Grammar: the cognitive, semiotic, network, and usage-based commitments.

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Do Russian paucal numerals govern the genitive? Evidence from stress placement

Cited by 3 publications

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A very unpredictable ‘person’: A corpus-based approach to suppletion in West Polesian

A very unpredictable ‘person’: A corpus-based approach to suppletion in West Polesian

Нестандартные Количественные Конструкции В Русской Речи Носителей Нанайского И Ульчского Языков

Language Change and Cognitive Linguistics

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