Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 1999
XXVIII, 263 pages
978-90-272-8386-3 (ISBN)
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This collection of articles presents a variety of approaches to central phenomena in South Slavic syntax and semantics, with an informal introduction by the editors on South Slavic clause structure. Phenomena addressed (treated partly on a language specific basis, partly comparative) include: the structure of the functional field, verb fronting, clitic placement, conjunctions, noun phrase structure, possessives, agreement, and aspectual phenomena.
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Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova | Lars Hellan
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- TOPICS IN SOUTH SLAVIC SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION THE CLAUSAL STRUCTURE OF SOUTH SLAVIC
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The 'Functional field'
- 2. The clitics
- 3. Clitic doubling and agreement
- 4. The FRONT field
- 4.1 The 'higher chamber'of FRONT
- 4.2 The 'lower chamber'of FRONT
- 5. The clause structure of the other South Slavic languages
- 6. This volume
- References
- VERB MOVEMENT AND ECONOMY LAST RESORT
- 1. Introduction*
- 2. Long Head Movement
- 3. Incorporation: the Polish case
- 4. Imperative V-movement
- 5. Summary and Conclusions
- References
- CONJUNCTION DOUBLING AND 'AVOID CONJUNCTION' PRINCIPLE*
- 1. Conjunction Doubling and the Structure for Coordination
- 2. "Both/ Either" Strategy
- 3. Conjunction Doubling and Adjectives
- 4. 'Economize with Conjunctions' (EWC) and Conjunction Repetition (CR)
- 5. "Economize with Conjunctions" (EWC) and Coordination of Likes
- 6. Theoretical status of EWC
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- ON THE CONTRAST RELATION OF THE BALKAN LANGUAGES IN COMPARISON TO RUSSIAN AND GERMAN*
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical implications of the analysis
- 3. Types of adversative constructions
- 3.1 Type 1
- 3.2 Type 2
- 3.3 Type 3
- 3.4 Type 4
- 4. Conclusions
- References
- THE SYSTEM OF AUXILIARIES IN BULGARIAN
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The BE-auxiliaries S UM and BJAX
- 1.1 Distributional contrasts
- 1.2 Proposal
- 1.3 Morphological Evidence
- 1.4 Syntactic evidence: Aux-to-Comp movement
- 1.5 Summary of the section
- 2. The future marker ste
- 3. The case of stjax and imam
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- AGAINST LONG HEAD MOVEMENT' LEXICAL INSERTION AND THE BULGARIAN AUXILIARY 'BE'*
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Lexical Insertion in Generative Grammar
- 3. The Bulgarian grammatical verb sum 'be'
- 4. Weaknesses in Alternative Analyses
- 4.1 'Relativized ' head movement
- 4.2 Feature checking in C°
- 4.3 Optionally weak/ strong features
- 5. A Phonological Insertion Analysis
- 5.1 Phonological Lexicalization
- 5.2 Optional insertion contexts
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- TENSE, ASPECT AND ASPECTUAL COMPOSITION
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Perfectivity and Imperfectivity in Slavic languages
- 3. Terminativity and Durativity in Germanic languages
- 4. Aspectual asymmetry
- 5. How terminative is perfectivity ?
- 6. The Perfective Prefix as an operator
- 7. INFL and PROG
- 8. The French Imparfait and Passé Simple
- 9. Habituality in Germanic languages
- 10. ASP andASP
- 11. Imperfectivization in Slavic languages
- 12. Perfectivity in Slavic languages
- 13. Problems with bare plural NPs
- 14. Conclusion
- References
- POSSESSORS IN THE BULGARIAN DP*
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The basic word order
- 1.1 The position of the na-DP
- 1.2 The position of the genitiv al adjective
- 1.3 The position of the possessive adjective
- 1.4 The position of the clitic
- 2. Possessivization hierarchy
- 2.1 One occurrence o f a possessor expression
- 2.2 Two occurrences of possessor expressions
- 2.3 Three occurrences of possessor expressions
- 2.4 Con clus ions
- 3. Nominalizations
- 3.1 Nominais derived from transitive verbs
- 3.2 Passive nouns
- 3.3 Psychological nouns
- 3.4 Event vs. Result Nominals
- 4. Fronting
- 5. Fronting with clitics
- 5.1 The data
- 5.2 Aproposal
- 5.3 Some counterexamples
- 6. Conclusions
- References
- VSJAKO NACALO E TRUDNO TRAPS IN LESSON I IN THE SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGES
- 0. Beginnings
- 1. "Demonstrative + Copula" sentences
- 2. "Disqialified" subjects
- 3. Further points on demonstratives
- 4. Wh-words and -phrases
- further problems
- References
- ON CLITIC DISPLACEMENT
- 1. The Structure of the Clitic Sequence
- 1.1 Complementizer Clitic
- 1.2 Clitic Auxiliaries
- 1.3 Pronominal Clitics
- 1.4 Clitic Reflexives
- 1.5 An Interim Summary
- 2. Issues
- 2.1 Some Non-Finite Contexts
- 2.2 Paradigms and Feature Strength
- 2.3 The Question of Focus
- 2.4 A Diachronie Note
- References
- FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE DP IN BOSNIAN*
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Indefinite and Definite Forms of Descriptive Adjectives
- 3. Nonpredicating adjectives
- 4. The Left Peripheral Position of the DP: Demonstratives
- 5. Further functional projections: Possessives and Numerals
- 5.1 Possessives
- 5.2 Numerals
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- INDEX OF NAMES
- INDEX OF LANGUAGES
