Linguistic Variation Issues: Case and Agreement in Northern Russian Participial Constructions

By:

Civardi, Antonio [auth]

Material type: Article

ArticleLanguage: English Series: Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna ; v.31Publication details: Florence Firenze University Press 2016Description: 1 electronic resource (194 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9788864533261
9788892732407

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Summary: This study offers a novel approach to a longstanding problem in Slavic Linguistics, the formal representation of the Northern Russian participial constructions in -n(o)/-t(o). Unlike previous works, the methodological stance adopted by the author focuses on singling out all the relevant patterns of variation and on pursuing a unified explanation for them. The key to the solution of the puzzle is the idea that the participial affix -n-/-t- and the agreement inflections are not just pieces of morphology inserted post-syntactically, but true heads that enter the computation and are able to manipulate the argumental roles of the verb and to check the EPP. The author’s proposal is properly framed in the context of current debate on interlanguage variation.

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Electronic edition	Bucheon University Library	Fiction	OAPEN	82-9 B56 v.31	Not for loan	Смотреть (pdf)		1010053

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This study offers a novel approach to a longstanding problem in Slavic Linguistics, the formal representation of the Northern Russian participial constructions in -n(o)/-t(o). Unlike previous works, the methodological stance adopted by the author focuses on singling out all the relevant patterns of variation and on pursuing a unified explanation for them. The key to the solution of the puzzle is the idea that the participial affix -n-/-t- and the agreement inflections are not just pieces of morphology inserted post-syntactically, but true heads that enter the computation and are able to manipulate the argumental roles of the verb and to check the EPP. The author’s proposal is properly framed in the context of current debate on interlanguage variation.

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