The interplay of semantic and formal factors in Russian morphosyntax: animate paucal constructions in direct object function

Igartua, Iván; Madariaga, Nerea

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“…Since the morphological expression of case is at best marginal in Istro-Romanian, our data tend to confirm the hypothesis of Nurmio & Willis (2016: 32) that the 'numerative is related to the category of number' (cf. also Sims-Williams 1979, Bailyn & Nevins 2008, Igartua & Madariaga 2018 who tend to analyse the numerative as a number value), against Corbett's view (Corbett 2008: 19; see also Franks 1994;36 Our next step should be to investigate to what extent feminines might also be affected (we have some-as yet fragmentary evidence-that they might be). Croatian masculines and their modifiers, and demonstratives, have a special form which is a remnant of a minor number, the dual, when combined with small numbers (see Corbett 1983: 13-14, 89-92;1996: 114-116).…”

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Plural formation in Istro-Romanian numeral quantifier phrases: inflexional calquing from Croatian?

Bărbulescu¹,

Maiden²

2023

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We explore the effects of prolonged contact with Croatian on the inflexional morphology of number-marking in the Istro-Romanian noun. One result of a reorganization of the nominal system is that certain bisyllabic plural desinences, originally associated with feminine gender, are reassigned to the masculine, and come to exist alongside other modes of masculine plural marking. The resultant variation in masculine plural inflexion becomes subject to new patterns of distribution which are clearly sensitive to Croatian models, including the exaptation of masculine plural morphology to provide distinctive specialized morphological marking of plurals in certain numeral quantifier expressions for ‘smaller’ numbers, in ways clearly reminiscent of Croatian. What is involved is a complex array of ‘pattern’ borrowing, although there is also some evidence for ‘matter’ borrowing of a dialectal Croatian plural ending which Istro-Romanian sometimes uses in numeral quantifier phrases with higher numerals. Overall, we seem to be in the presence of an emergent ‘numerative’. While the creation of numeratives is well known from the internal history of various languages, our data may show that they may also emerge through language contact.

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Plural formation in Istro-Romanian numeral quantifier phrases: inflexional calquing from Croatian?

Bărbulescu¹,

Maiden²

2023

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“…<onl>Я вижу двух сёстёр и трёх сыновёй</onl> Ja vižu dvux sëstër i trëx syn-ovej 'I see two sisters and three sons' (ACC=GEN.PL); cf. Švedova et al (1980: 575-576), Mulisch et al (1988: 245-249), Igartua and Madariaga (2018) and Differential object marking, Differential argument marking.…”

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Paucal

Piper¹

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The paucal is described here as a bound number grammeme, historically derived from the dual and present in modern Russian, Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian and Molise Slavic. The article gives an overview of the definition and the distribution of the paucal in Slavic, as well as its grammatical status and its historical development. Special chapters deal with the paucal in nouns, attributes, predicates, and in oblique cases in the three languages under consideration. TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITIONThe paucal (< La paucus 'few'), required by the numerals '2, 3, 4' and 'both', may be considered a grammeme of the category of →number, with singular and plural as its counterparts, just like the →dual, from which it is historically derived. Alternative terms are Ge Numerativ (Isačenko 1962), Ru счётная форма sčëtnaja forma (Vinogradov 1972, Zaliznjak 2002 or Sr мала множина mala množina (Piper 2005 ~ паукал paukal), Cr malina (Znika 2002 ~ paukal), En restricted plural (Corbett 2000 ~ paucal). The terms dvojina and dual, frequent in BCMS handbooks for the paucal, are misleading.In opposition to the singular, the dual, just like the paucal, refers to more than one referent, but not to a larger quantity like the plural. In modern Slavic languages, the paucal and the dual are mutually exclusive, with the paucal referring to two-four referents and the dual to just two. In historical times, however, variation between these two numbers and even with the (unmarked) plural was not excluded (Žolobov and Krys'ko 2001). Other languages of the world either have a reduced inventory or show even more number grammemes like a trial, a greater plural etc. or no number category at all (Corbett 2000: 22-53). DISTRIBUTION OF THE PAUCAL IN SLAVICIn the modern Slavic standard languages, the paucal is found only in →Russian and in the →BCMS standard varieties, whereas the →Čakavian (bound dual) and the →Kajkavian (only plural) dialect are different (Belić 1972: 54-57). In contrast, →Molise Slavic (MSL), a Slavic micro-language in southern Italy, has preserved a paucal in its grammatical system, too, despite very strong Romance influences in other fields of grammar during the last 500 years (Breu 2017). MSL has the same genetic roots as BCMS, but on a →Štokavian-Ikavian dialectal basis. In →Bulgarian and →Macedonian a still wider expansion of the original dual took place, including not only the numerals '3-4', but all numbers, thus transforming it not to a paucal but to Bg бройна brojna / Mk избројана форма izbrojana forma 'enumerative form' as a third (bound) number grammeme besides singular and plural, except for nouns referring to persons (

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

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The interplay of semantic and formal factors in Russian morphosyntax: animate paucal constructions in direct object function

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Plural formation in Istro-Romanian numeral quantifier phrases: inflexional calquing from Croatian?

Plural formation in Istro-Romanian numeral quantifier phrases: inflexional calquing from Croatian?

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

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