Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories write by David Pesetsky. This book was released on 2013-12-27. Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A proposal for a radical new view of case morphology, supported by a detailed investigation of some of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar. In this book, David Pesetsky argues that the peculiarities of Russian nominal phrases provide significant clues concerning the syntactic side of morphological case. Pesetsky argues against the traditional view that case categories such as nominative or genitive have a special status in the grammar of human languages. Supporting his argument with a detailed analysis of a complex array of morpho-syntactic phenomena in the Russian noun phrase (with brief excursions to other languages), he proposes instead that the case categories are just part-of-speech features copied as morphology from head to dependent as syntactic structure is built. Pesetsky presents a careful investigation of one of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar, the morpho-syntax of noun phrases with numerals (including those traditionally called the paucals). He argues that these bewilderingly complex facts can be explained if case categories are viewed simply as parts of speech, assigned as morphology. Pesetsky's analysis is notable for offering a new theoretical perspective on some of the most puzzling areas of Russian grammar, a highly original account of nominal case that significantly affects our understanding of an important property of language.
The Role of Case in Russian Syntax
The Role of Case in Russian Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Role of Case in Russian Syntax write by C. Neidle. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Role of Case in Russian Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This manuscript is a revision of my 1982 MIT dissertation of the same name. A previous version of sections of chapters 1 and 5 appeared as 'Case Agreement in Russian', in The Mental Representation of Gram matical Relations, edited by Joan Bresnan, MIT Press, 1983. I am grateful to MIT Press for permission to reproduce parts of that article here. I would like to express my appreciation to Catherine V. Chvany, who has read several versions of this manuscript over the years, and provided encouragement and invaluable comments. Thanks go also to Johanna Nichols whose careful reading and useful suggestions have improved the book. I am also deeply grateful to Joan Bresnan, Ken Hale, Morris Halle, Beth Levin, and Jane Simpson for helpful discussions of the material contained herein. For sharing their native intuitions, special thanks go to Alina Israeli, Boris Katz, and Evgenij Pinsky, and to Liza Chernyak, Volodja Gitin, Victoria Koff, Larissa Levin, Victoria Schiller, and Elena Semeka-Pankra tova. Joyce Friedman, Beth Levin, and Jane Simpson kindly provided assistance with bibliographical references and proofreading. This manuscript was prepared using the computer facilities at Boston University, and lowe a large debt of gratitude to the following people for providing access to equipment and technical assistance: William H. Henneman, Philip Budne, Barry Shein, and Paul Blanchard. IX INTRODUCTION The study of case, once primarily of interest to philologists, has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves from syntacticians.
The Syntax of Russian
The Syntax of Russian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Syntax of Russian write by John F. Bailyn. This book was released on 2012. The Syntax of Russian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An essential guide to Russian syntax, which examines major syntactic structures and grammatical puzzles of the language.
Form and Function of Expressive Morphology: a Case Study of Russian
Form and Function of Expressive Morphology: a Case Study of Russian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Form and Function of Expressive Morphology: a Case Study of Russian write by . This book was released on 2002. Form and Function of Expressive Morphology: a Case Study of Russian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this thesis, I conduct a detailed case study of expressive suffixes in Russian. I show that although the suffixes under investigation have the same function ("expressive"), they differ significantly in their formal properties. I identify two major semantic types of expressive suffixes: attitude and size suffixes. Attitude suffixes convey an attitude of the speaker toward the referent. Size suffixes both convey an attitude and refer to the size of the referent. I argue that the two different semantic types map onto different syntactic types. Attitude suffixes are syntactic heads, while size suffixes are syntactic modifiers. As heads, attitude suffixes determine the formal properties (syntactic category, grammatical gender and inflectional class) of the derived form. As modifiers, size suffixes do not determine the formal properties of the derived form. Attitude suffixes can attach both to category-free √Roots and to categories (n/a/v), while size suffixes can only attach to a noun category. I investigate the functional and formal properties of Russian expressive suffixes in a systematic way, which has not been done before. In doing so, I analyze how expressive suffixes pattern along several kinds of criteria (gender/class change, category change, subcategorization). An important byproduct of this analysis is that I show how grammatical gender of an expressive form can be predicted from its inflectional class (combined with animacy and natural gender of the base). One implication of this analysis is that I show that the formal properties of expressives are no different from those of non-expressives (descriptives), as both expressives and descriptives can attach as heads or modifiers either to √Roots or categories. Another implication is that the formal criteria which I develop for a small set of expressive suffixes in Russian can be extended to set up a cross-linguistic typology of expressives.
Diagnosing Syntax
Diagnosing Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diagnosing Syntax write by Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng. This book was released on 2013-07-25. Diagnosing Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on the expertise of over 20 leading scholars and their empirically rich data, this book presents current thoughts on, and practical answers to, the question: What are the diagnostic signs, techniques and procedures that can be used to analyse natural language syntax?
