Unaccusatives in Slovenian from a cross-linguistic perspective

Ilc, Gašper; Marvin, Tatjana

doi:10.1075/la.236.07ilc

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“…As examples (ii) and (iii) show, l-participles from unaccusatives can participate in these nominalizations, but l-participles from unergatives cannot, (iv). Interestingly, as noted in Ilc & Marvin (2016), some adjectival participles have a different form from the eventive participles, as illustrated in (iii), where minil is eventive, whereas minul (with a change of the theme vowel) is stative. In these cases, only the stative participle can undergo ost-nominalization.…”

Section: Unaccusatives -Making a Listmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…This kind of theme-vowel conditioned allomorphy is widely attested in the theme-vowel class a/je, e.g., in kl-a-ti, kol-je-mo 'to slaughter, we slaughter' (see Simonović 2019 for a detailed analysis in terms of pure phonological conditioning). ( 7 In this paper we focus on the active l-participle, the 'special' status of which was already addressed in Ilc & Marvin (2016). These authors show that only l-participles of unaccusative verbs can appear in reduced relative clauses (as first suggested in Marvin 2003).…”

Section: Intro To the Slovenian Theme-vowel Classesmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…As discussed in section 3, for Slovenian, the reduced relatives test was established as the most reliable diagnostics by Ilc & Marvin (2016), as only (active) l-participles of unaccusative verbs can appear in reduced relative clauses. One major drawback of this test is that it cannot be easily implemented in a corpus search, as l-participles of all verbs are also used with the auxiliary to make future, past and conditional forms.…”

Section: Unaccusatives -Making a Listmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The reduced relatives test was established as the most reliable diagnostics for unaccusatives in Slovenian by Ilc & Marvin (2016). Based on this test, the authors compose a list of 52 verbs, which is, as they themselves note, the most comprehensive list of unaccusatives for Slovenian.…”

Section: Intro To the Slovenian Theme-vowel Classesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, this list is not compiled based on corpus data, which means that there is room for expanding the list. Ilc & Marvin (2016) further state that they focus on eventively used l-participles, which they distinguish from "purely adjectival stative participles". 6 This latter type has been considered as an unaccusativity diagnostic by Aljović (2000) for Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS).…”

Section: Intro To the Slovenian Theme-vowel Classesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? An ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in Slovenian

Simonović

Mišmaš

2022

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper focuses on the e/i theme vowel class of verbs in Slovenian to bring together two seemingly unrelated debates; (i) the debate on the status of derivational affixes as roots within the framework of Distributed Morphology and (ii) the debate on the correlation between theme vowel classes with certain argument structures in Slavic. Focusing on Slovenian, our core data will come from active l-participles that are used adjectivally as an unaccusativity diagnostic. We take these l-participles to create a list of 109 unaccusative verbs. We show that (i) no unaccusative verbs belong to the two largest theme vowel classes in Slovenian (a/a and i/i), whereas (ii) the two big theme vowel classes tend to get accusative arguments quite frequently. Most importantly, (iii) the e/i-class stands out since more than one half of the unaccusative sample falls into. The e/i-class is furthermore the only theme vowel class whose theme vowel surfaces in adjectival l-participles, the theme vowel class to which inchoatives belong and behaves uniformly with respect to stress. Based on the uniform behavior of the e/i-class which sets it apart from other theme vowel-classes, we will argue that the vowel of this class is better analyzed as a root.

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Section: Unaccusatives -Making a Listmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Intro To the Slovenian Theme-vowel Classesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Unaccusatives -Making a Listmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Intro To the Slovenian Theme-vowel Classesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Intro To the Slovenian Theme-vowel Classesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? An ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in Slovenian

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The third way: object reordering as ambiguous labeling resolution

Stegovec

2024

The Linguistic Review

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This paper examines free object order alternation in ditransitives, focusing on Slovenian. It is shown that neither a scrambling nor a base generation analysis is fully satisfactory. A new analysis based on the Labeling Algorithm is proposed, where it is argued that the introduction of a second object creates an ambiguous labeling scenario ({NP,VP}), which has two equivalent resolutions: (i) movement of the VP with the first object inside, or (ii) movement of the second object. This is shown to derive both free object order in the general case and the restrictions on object order in select contexts, as due to the specifics of the VP-movement analysis it is possible for selectional restrictions to filter out either derivation (i) or (ii).

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Adnominal Arguments in Phrases Headed by Deverbal Nouns in Slovenian

Marvin¹

2022

Belgrade Linguistics Days (BeLiDa)

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The paper deals with the issue of word order in Slovenian nominalizations with three adnominal arguments (agent, theme, and recipient) appearing simultaneously as postmodifiers in a nominal phrase whose head is a deverbal process/event noun. The main goal is to derive the fixed order of arguments: theme genitive >> agent genitive >> recipient dative. The article presents an analysis in which the order is achieved by introducing the VoiceP into the nominalization structure with transitive and unergative verbs and by movement of the theme argument to a position above the agent and recipient arguments.

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Unaccusatives in Slovenian from a cross-linguistic perspective

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Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? An ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in Slovenian

Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? An ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in Slovenian

The third way: object reordering as ambiguous labeling resolution

Adnominal Arguments in Phrases Headed by Deverbal Nouns in Slovenian

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