16th International NooJ 2022 Conference: Book of Abstracts

Libro de resúmenes presentados en la "16th International NooJ 2022 Conference", de modalidad híbrida, realizada en el ECU (Espacio Cultural Universitario, UNR) en Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, entre el 14 y 15 de junio de 2022.Fil: Reyes, Silvia Susana. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes; Argentin

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

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

On the impossibility of impersonal passives in English

En este artículo se defiende que las pasivas impersonales son agramaticales en inglés (véase *There was danced / *It was danced (= There was dancing), pero no así en el resto de las lenguas germánicas, debido a que los participios pasivos del inglés se legitiman en Y, esto es, en el mismo nódulo que combina en la derivación con el llamado objeto lógico, mientras que los participios propios de las pasivas impersonales se legitiman en la proyección superior del verbo ligero v, al igual que ocurre con los llamados participios perfectos. Se propugna la existencia de una proyección funcional entre YP y vP, encargada de cotejar los rasgos de concordancia del participio y del objeto, y asimismo el rasgo categorial -en del propio participio. La discusión incluye una revisión crítica de la bibliografía que defiende que los participios pasivos de las lenguas germánicas, pero no así los de la lengua inglesa, tienen la capacidad de seleccionar objetos cognados implícitos o encubiertos, y asimismo se critican los análisis que defienden que los auxiliares de dichas lenguas, pero no los del inglés, pueden cotejar rasgos de concordancia por defecto. Se defiende un análisis del expletivo inglés there donde éste contrasta con los expletivos de las pasivas impersonales germánicas, tanto de las lenguas TEC (Transitive Expletive Construction) como de las lenguas que no admiten este fenómeno. De forma específica, argumento que el expletivo inglés there se inserta o acopla directamente en la posición de Especificador de v, debido a sus propiedades locativas, mientras que los expletivos de las restantes lenguas germánicas se insertan en posiciones no argumentales, como son la posición de Especificador de C(omplementante), o de T(iempo).In this paper I argue that impersonal passives are impossible in English (*There was danced / *It was danced (= There was dancing)) but not in the rest of the Germanic languages because English passive participles must necessarily be licensed in Y, at the site where they merge with a logical object, whereas participles in impersonal passives merge in the light verb v position, in a parallel fashion to perfect participles. A functional projection in charge of checking the agreement features of both the participle and the object and also, crucially, the -en feature of the participle is argued to be available in between YP and vP. I criticise previous analyses in the literature that support the view that passive participles of Germanic languages other than English can actually merge with covert cognate objects, or that they can check nominative case, or otherwise that the auxiliary can check default agreement features. Further, I defend an approach to expletives that distinguishes English there from the expletives introducing impersonal passives in both TEC languages and non- TEC languages within the Germanic family. The English expletive there is claimed to merge in Spec,v because of its locative properties. By contrast, expletives in the other Germanic languages merge in pure non-theta positions as are Spec,C or Spec,T

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2016

Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2016 initiates a new series of collective volumes on formal Slavic linguistics. It presents a selection of high quality papers authored by young and senior linguists from around the world and contains both empirically oriented work, underpinned by up-to-date experimental methods, as well as more theoretically grounded contributions. The volume covers all major linguistic areas, including morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, and their mutual interfaces. The particular topics discussed include argument structure, word order, case, agreement, tense, aspect, clausal left periphery, or segmental phonology. The topical breadth and analytical depth of the contributions reflect the vitality of the field of formal Slavic linguistics and prove its relevance to the global linguistic endeavour. Early versions of the papers included in this volume were presented at the conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages 12 or at the satellite Works

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2016

Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2016 initiates a new series of collective volumes on formal Slavic linguistics. It presents a selection of high quality papers authored by young and senior linguists from around the world and contains both empirically oriented work, underpinned by up-to-date experimental methods, as well as more theoretically grounded contributions. The volume covers all major linguistic areas, including morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, and their mutual interfaces. The particular topics discussed include argument structure, word order, case, agreement, tense, aspect, clausal left periphery, or segmental phonology. The topical breadth and analytical depth of the contributions reflect the vitality of the field of formal Slavic linguistics and prove its relevance to the global linguistic endeavour. Early versions of the papers included in this volume were presented at the conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages 12 or at the satellite Workshop on Formal and Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, which were held on December 7-10, 2016 in Berlin

On the New Passive

The so-called New Passive in Icelandic takes the form 'it was elected us' (or, e.g., 'then was elected us', without an expletive), instead of the standard passive form 'we were elected'. It has neither A-movement to subject nor acc-to-nom conversion, which are otherwise diagnostic of the canonical passive in Icelandic and related languages. Some researchers have argued that "passive" is in fact a misnomer and that the construction should instead be analyzed as an active one, with a nominative pro. This paper argues instead in favor of a minimalist analysis, where the New Passive is closely related to the impersonal P passive (with a PP, type 'then was shouted at us'), which is highly common and productive in Icelandic. On the approach pursued, acc-to-nom conversion involves case-star deletion, absent from the New Passive (much as from so-called psych and fate (un)accusatives in standard Icelandic). Additionally, the New Passive has a strong vP phase edge, blocking A-movement, in contrast to the defective vP edge in the canonical passive. The paper argues that A-grounding or "freezing" is brought about by phi-minimality, A-islands thus arising in a parallel fashion with A'-islands

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2021

Synopsis: Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2021 offers a selection of articles that were prepared on the basis of talks given at the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages 14 or at the satellite workshop on secondary imperfectives in Slavic, which were held on June 2–5, 2021, at the University of Leipzig. The volume covers all branches of Slavic languages and features synchronic as well as diachronic analyses. It comprises a wide array of topics, such as degree achievements, clitic climbing in Czech and Polish, typology of Slavic l-participles, aspectual markers in Russian and Czech, doubling in South Slavic relative clauses, congruence and case-agreement in close apposition in Russian, cataphora in Slovenian, Russian and Polish participles, prefixation and telicity in Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian adjectives, negative questions in Russian and German and imperfectivity in discourse. The numerous topics addressed demonstrate the importance of Slavic data and the analyses presented in this collection make a significant contribution to Slavic linguistics as well as to linguistics in general

Феномен синкретизма в украинской лингвистике

У сучасній лінгвістиці вивчення складних системних зв’язків та динамізму мови навряд чи буде завершеним без урахування синкретизму. Традиційно явища транзитивності трактуються як поєднання різних типів утворень як результат процесів трансформації або відображення проміжних, синкретичних фактів, що характеризують мовну систему в синхронному аспекті.In modern linguistics, the study of complex systemic relations and language dynamism is unlikely to be complete without considering the transitivity. Traditionally, transitivity phenomena are treated as a combination of different types of entities, formed as a result of the transformation processes or the reflection of the intermediate, syncretic facts that characterize the language system in the synchronous aspect.В современной лингвистике изучение сложных системных отношений и языкового динамизма вряд ли будет полным без учета синкретизма. Традиционно явления транзитивности трактуются как совокупность различных типов сущностей, сформированных в результате процессов преобразования или отражения промежуточных синкретических фактов, которые характеризуют языковую систему в синхронном аспекте

Minimalist C/case

This article discusses A-licensing and case from a minimalist perspective, pursuing the idea that argument NPs cyclically enter a number of A-relations, rather than just a single one, resulting in event-licensing, case-licensing and phi-licensing. While argument case commonly reflects Voice/v-relations, canonical A-movement is driven by higher elements, either in the C-T system or in a superordinate v-system (in ECM constructions). In addition, there is a distinction to be drawn between the triggering of A-movement, by for example C, and the licensing of the landing site, by for instance T, C-probing leading to tucking-in into Spec-T. Much of the evidence presented comes from quirky case constructions in Icelandic and from ECM and raising constructions in Icelandic and English. It is argued that T in ECM constructions inherits phi-licensing from the matrix v, regardless of the case properties of v