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Papers by Ekaterina Lyutikova
Вопросы языкознания, Mar 27, 2019
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique
This article addresses locality conditions on Negative Concord (NC) in Russian. We examine long-d... more This article addresses locality conditions on Negative Concord (NC) in Russian. We examine long-distance licensing of “negative” ni-pronouns in subject- and object-control infinitives. Existing theories of negative concord rely in one way or another on the movement of negative concord items (NCI): either as a direct licensing condition, or as a prerequisite for entering a local configuration with the licensor. Consequently, theories predict that ni-pronoun movement to the matrix clause (i.e., the local domain of the matrix licensor) would increase acceptability of ni-licensing. Using experimental data, we explore various linear positions available for ni-pronouns in the matrix clause and in embedded infinitival clauses. We show that movement is not required for long-distance licensing, and that derived positions of ni-pronouns are independent of ni-licensing. We argue that although ni-licensing and movement both obey locality constraints, they differ as to the type of locality requi...
Languages
In this paper, I present evidence for variable agreement with anaphors in Tatar. I show that infl... more In this paper, I present evidence for variable agreement with anaphors in Tatar. I show that inflected reflexives trigger co-varying person agreement as DP/nominalization subjects and as complements of postpositions, which appears to contradict the generalization on the anaphor agreement effect (AAE). At the same time, inflected reciprocals induce 3p agreement on external targets. These data are puzzling in two aspects. First, it is unclear how to derive co-varying agreement with inflected reflexives because it cannot be handled as a regular exception to AAE predicted to arise by the agreement-based theory if the antecedent of the anaphor is positioned lower than the agreement target. Secondly, the difference between reflexives and reciprocals with respect to external agreement looks enigmatic. I propose that Tatar reflexives and reciprocals, despite their superficial resemblance, have different internal structures, which in turn bring about differences in their feature sets, and ex...
Word Structure
In this paper, I analyse the intricate agreement pattern attested with inflected quantifiers, int... more In this paper, I analyse the intricate agreement pattern attested with inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors in Tatar, which can trigger not only a default 3rd person agreement, but also the marked person agreement reflecting the features of their restrictor or binder. I claim that in these constructions, inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors bear the features the agreement reveals, and propose a mechanism allowing them to acquire the features of their restrictor or binder. I build on the idea that agreeing inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors contain a minimal pronoun equipped with a set of unvalued interpretable features, and that this feature set gets valued via agreement.
Rhema, 2019
In this paper, we analyse the intricate agreement pattern attested with inflected quantifiers, in... more In this paper, we analyse the intricate agreement pattern attested with inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors in Tatar. These nominals can trigger not only a default 3rd person agreement, but also the marked person agreement reflecting the features of their restrictor or binder. We propose that in these constructions, inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors bear the features the agreement reveals, and propose a mechanism allowing inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors to aquire the features of the restrictor or binder. We build on the idea that agreeing inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors contain a minimal pronoun equipped with a set of unvalued interpretable features, and that this feature set gets valued via feature sharing.
Altorientalische Forschungen, 2021
The paper reassesses the evidence for active transitive participles in Hittite and suggests that ... more The paper reassesses the evidence for active transitive participles in Hittite and suggests that they are in reality formed from the unergative class of intransitive verbs.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
This paper contributes to the task of defining the relationship between the results of production... more This paper contributes to the task of defining the relationship between the results of production and rating experiments in the context of language variation. We address the following research question: how may the grammatical options available to a single speaker be distributed in the two domains of production and perception? We argue that previous studies comparing acceptability judgments and frequencies of occurrence suffer from significant limitations. We approach the correspondence of production and perception data by adopting an experimental design different from those used in previous research: (i) instead of using a corpus we use production data obtained experimentally from respondents who are later asked to make judgments, (ii) instead of pairwise phenomena we examine language variation, (iii) judgments are collected formally using the conditions and materials from the production experiment, (iv) we analyze the behavior of each participant across the production and acceptability judgment experiments. In particular, we examine three phenomena of variation in Russian: case variation in nominalizations, gender mismatch, and case variation in paucal constructions. Our results show that there is substantial alignment between acceptability ratings and frequency of occurrence. However, the distribution of frequencies and acceptability scores do not always correlate. Speakers are not consistent in choosing a single variant across the two types of experiment. Importantly, the types of inconsistency they display differ, which means that the variation can be characterized from this point of view. We conclude that the degree of coherence of the two experiments reflects the effects of the evolution of variation over time. Another result is that elicited production and acceptability judgments vary with respect to how they reveal variation in language. In the case of the development or disappearance of variants, production indicates this earlier than judgments, and the rating task has the effect of restricting the choices available to respondents. However, the production method should not thereby be considered more sensitive. We argue that only a combination of production and judgment data makes it possible to estimate the directionality of changes in variability and to see the full distribution of different variants.
This paper discusses the methodology of the parametric description of the worlds’ languages. The ... more This paper discusses the methodology of the parametric description of the worlds’ languages. The present day linguistic typology aims at once at describing the language diversity and at predicting it: the notion of predictability plays the crucial role, since the typology addresses the eternal questions ‘why the languages are so different’ and ‘why the languages are so similar’. Parameters differ from elementary linguistic features and have a hierarchical structure: they are based on hypotheses how the classes of the world's languages can be grouped. The critic assessment of the concepts implemented in the parametric typology is a prerequisite of any successful application. Meanwhile, the set of such concepts cannot be reduced to the so called comparative concepts, i.e. concepts directly based on the comparison of language-specific data. The dialogue between the linguists involved in the parametrization of the world’s languages is motivated by the practical tasks they solve, rather than by the choice of any formal framework some of them may represent. One of the traditional dialogue forums is the series of the thematic international conferences ‘Typology of morphosyntactic parameters’ (2011 ―) and the series of TMP proceedings (2014 ― ). The first issue of the eponymous journal (2018, issue 1) develops this tradition and explores in the same field of research.
Русский язык в научном освещении, 2017
В статье обсуждаются конституирующие свойства V2-языков с точки зрения параметрической типологии.... more В статье обсуждаются конституирующие свойства V2-языков с точки зрения параметрической типологии. V2-языки представляют собой группу языков со сходной архитектурой клаузы и, в частности, единой второй позицией финитного глагола. В статье обосновывается утверждение, что «классический» формальный анализ V2, связанный с передвижением глагола и особым набором признаков у вершины, вызывающим такое передвижение, эмпирически адекватен, а современные попытки расширить круг V2-языков за счет ослабления диагностических требований контрпродуктивны. Языки с «частичным» или «остаточным» V2, определяемые по позиции глагола лишь в части независимых утвердительных предложений, не образуют естественного класса в отношении прочих параметров структуры клаузы; в то же время передвижение глагола само по себе не является достаточным условием для возникновения V2.
Zeitschrift Fur Slavische Philologie, 2019
Voprosy jazykoznanija, 2020
Altorientalische Forschungen 48/1: 102-117, 2021
The paper reassesses the evidence for active transitive participles in Hittite and suggests that ... more The paper reassesses the evidence for active transitive participles in Hittite and suggests that they are in reality formed from the unergative class of intransitive verbs.
Rhema, 2021
В статье представлена «экспедиционная биография» А.Е. Кибрика – выдающегося российского лингвиста... more В статье представлена «экспедиционная биография» А.Е. Кибрика – выдающегося российского лингвиста, создателя отечественной школы полевой лингвистики. Описаны лингвистические экспедиции Кибрика 1967–2008 гг. по исследованию малых бесписьменных языков России, в первую очередь языков Дагестана, в том числе арчинского, хиналугского, годоберинского, багвалинского и цахурского. Описание и документация разноструктурных языков, принципиально отличающихся от языков среднеевропейского стандарта, привели А.Е. Кибрика к созданию собственной уникальной исследовательской программы в области теории языка и лингвистической типологии, ключевым положением которой стала когнитивная мотивированность языковой формы. Ключевые слова: полевая лингвистика, описание и документирование языков, языки Дагестана, типология, внутригенетическая типология, когнитивные науки
In this paper, we establish an argument supporting radical predicate decomposition (RPD) whereby ... more In this paper, we establish an argument supporting radical predicate decomposition (RPD) whereby subevental components of an event description are represented independently from relations between them. One of the fundamental assumptions that virtually all theories of syntactically represented event structure share (Pylkkänen 2002, Borer 2005, Zubizarreta and Oh 2007, Ramchand 2008, Travis 2010, Tubino Blanco 2011), often tacitly, is that subevent descriptions appear together with their relations to a subordinate subevent, as in (1).
Вопросы языкознания, Mar 27, 2019
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique
This article addresses locality conditions on Negative Concord (NC) in Russian. We examine long-d... more This article addresses locality conditions on Negative Concord (NC) in Russian. We examine long-distance licensing of “negative” ni-pronouns in subject- and object-control infinitives. Existing theories of negative concord rely in one way or another on the movement of negative concord items (NCI): either as a direct licensing condition, or as a prerequisite for entering a local configuration with the licensor. Consequently, theories predict that ni-pronoun movement to the matrix clause (i.e., the local domain of the matrix licensor) would increase acceptability of ni-licensing. Using experimental data, we explore various linear positions available for ni-pronouns in the matrix clause and in embedded infinitival clauses. We show that movement is not required for long-distance licensing, and that derived positions of ni-pronouns are independent of ni-licensing. We argue that although ni-licensing and movement both obey locality constraints, they differ as to the type of locality requi...
Languages
In this paper, I present evidence for variable agreement with anaphors in Tatar. I show that infl... more In this paper, I present evidence for variable agreement with anaphors in Tatar. I show that inflected reflexives trigger co-varying person agreement as DP/nominalization subjects and as complements of postpositions, which appears to contradict the generalization on the anaphor agreement effect (AAE). At the same time, inflected reciprocals induce 3p agreement on external targets. These data are puzzling in two aspects. First, it is unclear how to derive co-varying agreement with inflected reflexives because it cannot be handled as a regular exception to AAE predicted to arise by the agreement-based theory if the antecedent of the anaphor is positioned lower than the agreement target. Secondly, the difference between reflexives and reciprocals with respect to external agreement looks enigmatic. I propose that Tatar reflexives and reciprocals, despite their superficial resemblance, have different internal structures, which in turn bring about differences in their feature sets, and ex...
Word Structure
In this paper, I analyse the intricate agreement pattern attested with inflected quantifiers, int... more In this paper, I analyse the intricate agreement pattern attested with inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors in Tatar, which can trigger not only a default 3rd person agreement, but also the marked person agreement reflecting the features of their restrictor or binder. I claim that in these constructions, inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors bear the features the agreement reveals, and propose a mechanism allowing them to acquire the features of their restrictor or binder. I build on the idea that agreeing inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors contain a minimal pronoun equipped with a set of unvalued interpretable features, and that this feature set gets valued via agreement.
Rhema, 2019
In this paper, we analyse the intricate agreement pattern attested with inflected quantifiers, in... more In this paper, we analyse the intricate agreement pattern attested with inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors in Tatar. These nominals can trigger not only a default 3rd person agreement, but also the marked person agreement reflecting the features of their restrictor or binder. We propose that in these constructions, inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors bear the features the agreement reveals, and propose a mechanism allowing inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors to aquire the features of the restrictor or binder. We build on the idea that agreeing inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors contain a minimal pronoun equipped with a set of unvalued interpretable features, and that this feature set gets valued via feature sharing.
Altorientalische Forschungen, 2021
The paper reassesses the evidence for active transitive participles in Hittite and suggests that ... more The paper reassesses the evidence for active transitive participles in Hittite and suggests that they are in reality formed from the unergative class of intransitive verbs.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
This paper contributes to the task of defining the relationship between the results of production... more This paper contributes to the task of defining the relationship between the results of production and rating experiments in the context of language variation. We address the following research question: how may the grammatical options available to a single speaker be distributed in the two domains of production and perception? We argue that previous studies comparing acceptability judgments and frequencies of occurrence suffer from significant limitations. We approach the correspondence of production and perception data by adopting an experimental design different from those used in previous research: (i) instead of using a corpus we use production data obtained experimentally from respondents who are later asked to make judgments, (ii) instead of pairwise phenomena we examine language variation, (iii) judgments are collected formally using the conditions and materials from the production experiment, (iv) we analyze the behavior of each participant across the production and acceptability judgment experiments. In particular, we examine three phenomena of variation in Russian: case variation in nominalizations, gender mismatch, and case variation in paucal constructions. Our results show that there is substantial alignment between acceptability ratings and frequency of occurrence. However, the distribution of frequencies and acceptability scores do not always correlate. Speakers are not consistent in choosing a single variant across the two types of experiment. Importantly, the types of inconsistency they display differ, which means that the variation can be characterized from this point of view. We conclude that the degree of coherence of the two experiments reflects the effects of the evolution of variation over time. Another result is that elicited production and acceptability judgments vary with respect to how they reveal variation in language. In the case of the development or disappearance of variants, production indicates this earlier than judgments, and the rating task has the effect of restricting the choices available to respondents. However, the production method should not thereby be considered more sensitive. We argue that only a combination of production and judgment data makes it possible to estimate the directionality of changes in variability and to see the full distribution of different variants.
This paper discusses the methodology of the parametric description of the worlds’ languages. The ... more This paper discusses the methodology of the parametric description of the worlds’ languages. The present day linguistic typology aims at once at describing the language diversity and at predicting it: the notion of predictability plays the crucial role, since the typology addresses the eternal questions ‘why the languages are so different’ and ‘why the languages are so similar’. Parameters differ from elementary linguistic features and have a hierarchical structure: they are based on hypotheses how the classes of the world's languages can be grouped. The critic assessment of the concepts implemented in the parametric typology is a prerequisite of any successful application. Meanwhile, the set of such concepts cannot be reduced to the so called comparative concepts, i.e. concepts directly based on the comparison of language-specific data. The dialogue between the linguists involved in the parametrization of the world’s languages is motivated by the practical tasks they solve, rather than by the choice of any formal framework some of them may represent. One of the traditional dialogue forums is the series of the thematic international conferences ‘Typology of morphosyntactic parameters’ (2011 ―) and the series of TMP proceedings (2014 ― ). The first issue of the eponymous journal (2018, issue 1) develops this tradition and explores in the same field of research.
Русский язык в научном освещении, 2017
В статье обсуждаются конституирующие свойства V2-языков с точки зрения параметрической типологии.... more В статье обсуждаются конституирующие свойства V2-языков с точки зрения параметрической типологии. V2-языки представляют собой группу языков со сходной архитектурой клаузы и, в частности, единой второй позицией финитного глагола. В статье обосновывается утверждение, что «классический» формальный анализ V2, связанный с передвижением глагола и особым набором признаков у вершины, вызывающим такое передвижение, эмпирически адекватен, а современные попытки расширить круг V2-языков за счет ослабления диагностических требований контрпродуктивны. Языки с «частичным» или «остаточным» V2, определяемые по позиции глагола лишь в части независимых утвердительных предложений, не образуют естественного класса в отношении прочих параметров структуры клаузы; в то же время передвижение глагола само по себе не является достаточным условием для возникновения V2.
Zeitschrift Fur Slavische Philologie, 2019
Voprosy jazykoznanija, 2020
Altorientalische Forschungen 48/1: 102-117, 2021
The paper reassesses the evidence for active transitive participles in Hittite and suggests that ... more The paper reassesses the evidence for active transitive participles in Hittite and suggests that they are in reality formed from the unergative class of intransitive verbs.
Rhema, 2021
В статье представлена «экспедиционная биография» А.Е. Кибрика – выдающегося российского лингвиста... more В статье представлена «экспедиционная биография» А.Е. Кибрика – выдающегося российского лингвиста, создателя отечественной школы полевой лингвистики. Описаны лингвистические экспедиции Кибрика 1967–2008 гг. по исследованию малых бесписьменных языков России, в первую очередь языков Дагестана, в том числе арчинского, хиналугского, годоберинского, багвалинского и цахурского. Описание и документация разноструктурных языков, принципиально отличающихся от языков среднеевропейского стандарта, привели А.Е. Кибрика к созданию собственной уникальной исследовательской программы в области теории языка и лингвистической типологии, ключевым положением которой стала когнитивная мотивированность языковой формы. Ключевые слова: полевая лингвистика, описание и документирование языков, языки Дагестана, типология, внутригенетическая типология, когнитивные науки
In this paper, we establish an argument supporting radical predicate decomposition (RPD) whereby ... more In this paper, we establish an argument supporting radical predicate decomposition (RPD) whereby subevental components of an event description are represented independently from relations between them. One of the fundamental assumptions that virtually all theories of syntactically represented event structure share (Pylkkänen 2002, Borer 2005, Zubizarreta and Oh 2007, Ramchand 2008, Travis 2010, Tubino Blanco 2011), often tacitly, is that subevent descriptions appear together with their relations to a subordinate subevent, as in (1).
Архитектура клаузы в параметрических моделях: синтаксис, информационная структура, порядок слов. /А.В.Циммерлинг, Е.А.Лютикова (ред.). Москва: Языки славянской культуры. Studia Philologica, 2016. 608 с.
See the content of the collective monograph 'Clause Architecture in the Parametric Models: Syntax... more See the content of the collective monograph 'Clause Architecture in the Parametric Models: Syntax, Information Structure, Word Order' (Anton Zimmerling & Ekaterina Lyutikova, eds.), to be published 2016 in Russian, by the Publishing House LRC 'Languages of Russian Culture'.
The summary is below.
This collective monograph is prepared by a group of Russian linguists sharing the interest to typology, formal models of grammar and interface phenomena. The authors aim at establishing universal and language-specific mechanisms of communicative marking and information ordering. We implement methods of parametric typology and aim at explaining complex multi-layered phenomena in terms of feature combinations which set out both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The developed model of the communicative-syntactic interface is defined for an open class of world's languages which apply to word order alternations, shifting in accent markings and morphosyntactic marking as means of encoding information structure.
The focus of our research interest is in the interaction of formal syntax and information structure and on word order systems of scrambling languages which are described in terms of linear-accent transformations, i.e. rules which at once change linear position and communicative status/accent marking of sentence elements. Most authors share the derivational approach to word order systems and work out the hypothesis that some basic word order can be established for scrambling languages too. Within the derivational approach, word order alternations can be explained at the level of narrow syntax, s(yntactic)-structure, cf. Chapters 4, 13 and 15, as well as on the level of c-(ommunicative) structure, cf. Chapters 1, 3 and 7.
Parametrization of language diversity is a dynamic research field in the linguistics of late XX – XXI centuries. In this particular field, adepts of formal and functional frameworks have many shared research issues and the dialogue between different schools in linguistics can be fruitful. These considerations have shaped the methodological component of the present monograph. Syntactic and communicative phenomena of different world's languages are parametrized, which gives a chance to reveal basic principles underlying them and to understand their role in the integral models of the natural language. The book consists of three parts. Chapter 1 “Clause Architecture and Information Structure” (Ekaterina Lyutikova & Anton Zimmerling) sets the general perspective.
Part I is devoted to the interaction of grammatical and communicative mechanisms relevant for the clause architecture. Chapters 2 “Communicative Structure and Linear-Accent Transformations” (Elena Paducheva) and 3 “Linear-Accent Grammar and Thetic Sentences in Russian” (Anton Zimmerling) introduce the notion of linear-accent transformations (LA-transformations) and investigate the potential of LA-grammars for the analysis of Russian and comparable data. Chapter 4 “Low Left Periphery in Hittite: a Formal Analysis” (Andrey Sideltsev) aims at modeling the complex interactions of grammar-internal and communicative aspects of Hittite word order and clause architecture. Chapter 5 “A Multilevel Theory of Clause Combining: Ossetic and Russian Revisited” (Oleg Belyaev), discusses the strategies of clause combined in Ossetic. Chapter 6 “Verbal Reprise in Irish” (Maria Shkapa) is devoted to one non-trivial communicative operation which becomes possible due to language-specific settings of the clause architecture.
Part II is devoted to issues in clitic studies. Chapter 7 “Clause structure, linear-accent transformations and clitics in Middle Norwegian” (Anton Zimmerling) sets the issues of clitic ordering in a more general context of clause structure ordering. Chapters 8 “The Syntax of Dative clitics in South Slavic lnaguages” (Galina Petrova & Elena Ivanova) and 9 “Bulgarian clitics” (Elena Ivanova) solve the problems of parametric description of clitics and the interactions of clitic ordering with communicative structure on the basis of several South Slavic languages. Chapter 10 “On Russian endoclitics” (Peter Arkadiev) raises a hypothesis that Russian primary prepositions are endoclitics. Finally, chapter 11 “Impersonal Sentences with an Obligatory Pronominal Experiencer in Bulgarian” (Elena Ivanova) is devoted to a non-trivial interaction of grammar and prosody in Bulgarian, where the presence of clause-level clitics (i.e. a particular type of prosodic structure) is mapped to a particular type of sentence constructions.
Part III includes chapters devoted to parametric modeling of the basic morphosyntactic mechanisms underlying clause structure — case and agreement. Chapter 12 “Case theory in the Perspective of Case Variation” (Ekaterina Lyutikova & Dilya Ibatullina) discusses mechanisms of case assignment and their parametrization with respect to the case source, agreement and mapping of syntactic and morphological case. The discussion of a non-trivial interaction between subject case marking and predicate agreement is continued in chapter 13 “(Non) agreement of participles and Two Constructions with Non-nominative Subjects in Lithuanian” (Peter Arkadiev). Chapter 14 “The Structural Position of the Direct Object and Information Structure: a view from Pechora dialect of Komi-Zyrian” (Natalia Serdobolskaya & Svetlana Toldova) discusses the interaction of grammatical, referential and communicative factors with the so called differential object marking. Chapter 15 “Syntactic and Semantic Typology of Genitives — the Genitive of Quality as a Locus of Adjectival Features, a View from Russian” (Pavel Graschenkov) is devoted to a non-trivial mapping of syntax and semantic interpretation in constructions with the genetive of quality; this mapping sheds light on their on the special status of this construction in the perspective of word order and branching conditions. Chapter 16 “Person Agreement in the Dargic Languages: an OT and LFG Analysis” (Oleg Belyaev) offers analysis of person agreement mechanisms in terms of two formal frameworks.
Типология морфосинтаксических параметров. Материалы международной конференции «Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2015». Вып. 2. — Москва, МПГУ, 2015. — 515 с. : ил. Под редакцией Е.А. Лютиковой, А.В. Циммерлинга, М.Б. Коношенко. ISBN 978-5-4263-0293-8
The present volume continues the thematic series “Typology of morphosyntactic parameters”. Parame... more The present volume continues the thematic series “Typology of morphosyntactic parameters”. Parametric description of grammatical systems is a priority field of research in linguistic typology and grammar theory. Grammar as the most regular component of linguistic structure provides the best opportunity in modeling universal characteristics of a human language on the basis of a limited number of factors. This volume is primarily dedicated to the interaction of grammar mechanisms and to interface phenomena — syntax-prosody interface, syntax-semantics interface, information structure-syntax interface. The volume presents two types of research articles: those discussing general characteristics of languages sharing the same combination of parameters and those investigating the interrelation of the universal and language-specific features in the grammar of a given language.
Настоящий выпуск продолжает серию тематических публикаций «Типология морфосинтаксических параметров». Параметрическое описание грамматических систем языков мира является приоритетным направлением лингвистической типологии и теории грамматики. Именно в области грамматики как самого регулярного компонента языка общие закономерности устройства языковой системы оказываются наиболее наглядными и поддающимися моделированию при помощи сравнительно небольшого количества факторов. Центральной темой выпуска является взаимодействие механизмов грамматики и проблема языковых интерфейсов — просодико-синтаксического, коммуникативно-синтаксического, семантико-грамматического. Представлены статьи двух типов — исследования, где на основе эксплицитного сопоставления материала большого числа языков устанавливаются общие признаки класса языков, соответствующих заданной комбинации параметров, и работы, где обсуждается соотношение универсального и лингвоспецифического компонентов в грамматике конкретных языков мира.
A collection of papers representing the 1st issue in series 'Typology of Morhosyntactic Parameter... more A collection of papers representing the 1st issue in series 'Typology of Morhosyntactic Parameters', Vol. 1 is edited by Ekaterina Lyutikova, Anton Zimmerling and Maria Konoshenko. The volume contains papers from the 2014 international conference 'Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 2014' ( 15 -17 October 2014, Moscow, SMSUH Moscow & Institute of Linguistics, RAS).
In this paper, I develop an analysis of case assignment in Tsakhur (Lezgic/Nakh-Dagestanian) couc... more In this paper, I develop an analysis of case assignment in Tsakhur (Lezgic/Nakh-Dagestanian) couched in the feature-based theory of case. Specifically, I adopt the idea of Pesetsky 2013 and argue that Tsakhur case morphemes reflect syntactic categories of the heads the nominal merges with. This analysis allows us to represent effectively two peculiar features of Tsakhur case system: the pervasive use of the attributive morpheme on the NP-internal constituents and the three-way grammatical distinction inside the category of case (nominative vs. ergative, affective, possessive vs. other cases).
Для русских событийных номинализаций обычно постулируется следующая модель падежного маркировани... more Для русских событийных номинализаций обычно постулируется следующая модель падежного маркирования аргументов: (i) косвенно-падежное и предложно-падежное управление внутренним аргументом совпадает с таковым у глагольной основы; (ii) аргументы в структурных падежах (номинатив и аккузатив) перекодируются приименным генитивом; (iii) в случае, если в составе клаузы аргументы, проецируемые глагольной основой, получили бы два структурных падежа (что имеет место при прямопереходном глаголе), внутренний аргумент оформляется генитивом, а внешний — инструменталисом.
Обобщение (iii) обычно рассматривается как свидетельство «эргативной» или «пассивной» стратегии в оформлении аргументов номинализации (см. Падучева 1974, 1977; Comrie 1980; Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993, 2013; Engelhardt, Trugman 1998; Alexiadou 2001 и др.), при которой S- и P-аргументы оформляются «немаркированным» падежом, а A-аргумент оформляется иначе: специальным падежом, зарезервированным для внешнего аргумента переходной конструкции, или выражается в качестве адъюнкта.
Однако в работах (Pereltsvaig 2015; Gerasimova, Lyutikova, Pereltsvaig 2016) были получены новые данные, которые ставят под сомнение универсальность предыдущих эмпирических обобщений, подвергавшихся теоретическому моделированию. В результате качественных и количественных исследований корпусных данных (НКРЯ), интернет-корпуса и лингвистического эксперимента (более 120 носителей русского языка) были обнаружены дополнительные модели падежного маркирования аргументов номинализаций. Выяснилось, что порядка 70% носителей русского языка допускают оформление творительным падежом не только внешнего аргумента переходных основ, но и внешнего аргумента неэргативов и двухместных непереходных основ.
В докладе предполагается показать, что две стратегии оформления аргументов событийных номинализаций в русском языке получают объяснение в рамках двух формальных моделей падежа. Традиционная стратегия, использующая творительный падеж только для внешних аргументов прямопереходных основ, хорошо описывается конфигурационной теорией А. Марантца (Marantz 1991), причем генитив оказывается немаркированным падежом, а инструменталис — «зависимым». Использование же творительного падежа для любых внешних аргументов может быть представлено как реализация ингерентного падежа внешнего аргумента, приписываемого агенсу легким глаголом (Woolford 2006).
Цель доклада -- исследовать объяснительный потенциал двух формальных моделей падежа (теории припи... more Цель доклада -- исследовать объяснительный потенциал двух формальных моделей падежа (теории приписывания падежа вершиной и конфигурационной теории) в отношении различных типов падежного варьирования, выражающего дифференцированное маркирование аргументов.
This paper investigates micro-variation between two dialects of Tatar (a Turkic language spoken i... more This paper investigates micro-variation between two dialects of Tatar (a Turkic language spoken in Russia) from the perspective of the interaction between the internal and external syntax of noun phrases. In particular, we argue that in both dialects the external syntax of direct objects (visibility to Probes for Agree and Move, and case assignment) correlates with their internal structure, namely whether they contain the functional projections of DP and/or NumP, or are bare NPs. Furthermore, we show that the two dialects under consideration differ as to how much functional structure is needed for a noun phrase to be visible to Probes.
There are 3 classes of natural languages with clausal 2P elements - a large class of Clitic Secon... more There are 3 classes of natural languages with clausal 2P elements - a large class of Clitic Second languages with XP-movement and clitic movement, a small class of Verb Second languages with XP-movement verb movement and small class of Operator Second languages without XP-movement.
Е.А.Лютикова, А.В.Циммерлинг. Архитектура клаузы и информационная структура. // Архитектура клаузы в параметрических моделях: синтаксис, информационная структура, порядок слов. /А.В.Циммерлинг, Е.А.Лютикова (ред.). Москва: Языки славянской культуры. Studia Philologica, 2016. 36 а.л. С. 9-22., Nov 2016
Chapter 1 in: Архитектура клаузы в параметрических моделях: синтаксис, информационная структура, ... more Chapter 1 in: Архитектура клаузы в параметрических моделях: синтаксис, информационная структура, порядок слов. /А.В.Циммерлинг, Е.А.Лютикова (ред.). Москва: Языки славянской культуры. Studia Philologica, 2016. 36 а.л. (in press).
We aim at establishing universal and language-specific mechanisms of communicative marking and information ordering. The developed model of the communicative-syntactic interface is defined for an open class of world's languages which apply to word order alternations, shifting in accent markings and morphosyntactic marking as means of encoding information structure. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the derivational vs configurational approach to word order systems with scrambling and argue that some basic word order can be established for scrambling languages too. Within the derivational approach, word order alternations can be explained at the level of narrow syntax, s(yntactic)-structure as well as on the level of c-(ommunicative) structure. We briefly outline both models in our paper.
Монография «Формальные модели падежа: теории и приложения» посвящена моделированию грамматической... more Монография «Формальные модели падежа: теории и приложения» посвящена моделированию грамматической категории падежа в современных синтаксических теориях. Падеж рассматривается как синтаксический феномен, связанный с определенной синтаксической позицией именной группы и ее взаимодействием с синтаксическими вершинами либо другими именными группами в некоторой локальной области, релевантной для приписывания падежа.
Синтаксические теории падежа в настоящее время принимают к рассмотрению все более широкий языковой материал. В монографии предлагается подробный критический анализ современных формальных теорий падежа и делаются попытки их применения к материалу разноструктурных языков. Методологическим новшеством данной работы является исследование объяснительного потенциала формальных моделей падежа применительно к различным типам падежного варьирования, регулярно отмечаемого в языках мира.
Типология морфосинтаксических параметров. Материалы междуна-родной конференции «Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2016». Вып. 3. — Москва, МПГУ, 2016. — 420 c. Под редакцией М.Б. Коношенко, Е.А. Лютиковой, А.В. Циммерлинга.
Настоящий сборник представляет собой 3-й выпуск тематической серии «Типология морфосинтаксичес... more Настоящий сборник представляет собой 3-й выпуск тематической серии «Типология морфосинтаксических параметров»; в нем опубликованы статьи участников конференций «Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2016» и «Генслинг 2016», проходивших в Московском государственном педа-гогическом университете и Институте языкознания РАН 12–14 октября 2016 года. Во всех работах так или иначе разрабатывается параметрический подход к описанию языкового разнообразия, который состоит в том, чтобы выявлять кластеры свойств, характеризующих грамматики естественных языков. Опубликованные статьи исследуют параметризацию с различных точек зрения как в рамках функциональных подходов к языковому разнообразию, так и в парадигме современных формальных моделей языка.
This volume is the 3rd issue in the thematic series “Typology of morphosyntactic parameters”. It contains papers presented at the international conferences “Typology of morphosyntactic parameters 2016” and The Fourth conference in General, Nordic and Slavic linguistics for graduate and doctoral students “Gensling 2016” held October 12–14, 2016 at Moscow State Pedagogical University and Institute of Linguistic Re-search RAS, Moscow. All papers take the parametric approach to model linguistic di-versity searching for clusters of features co-occurring in natural grammars. In this volume, typological diversity is studied from functional as well as formal perspectives.
Keywords: parametric grammar, linguistic typology, world’s languages, linguistic diversity, microparameters, macroparameters, feature strength, areal linguistics, di-achronic typology, linguistic universals, morphosyntax, case, agreement, differential argument marking, clause structure, serialization, incorporation, clitics, noun classes, pronouns, negation, articles, possession, multiple predication
A project summary and other relevant information about the RSCI project 14-18-03270 "Word order t... more A project summary and other relevant information about the RSCI project 14-18-03270 "Word order typology, communicative-syntactic interface and information structure in world's languages", funded by the Russian Science Foundation (Российский научный фонд, РНФ)
Period: 2014-2016
Project number: РНФ 14-18-03270 (RSCI 14-18-03270)
Project affiliation: Moscow State University of Education (Московский педагогический государственный университет)
Project leader: Anton Zimmerling
Project members: Peter Arkadiev, Oleg Belyaev, Maria Konoshenko, Ekaterina Lyutikova, Elena Paducheva, Roman Ronko, Natalia Serdobolskaya, Andrej Sideltsev, Yakov Testelets, Maria Shkapa (2014-2016);
Tatiana Ganenkova (2014-2015), Pavel Grashchenkov (2016), Vasily Kharitonov (2016), Elisaveta Kornakova (2016), Andrej Kosenkov (2014), Liza Kushnir (2014), Maria Langlits (2016), Valentina Markova (2015), Vladislav Romashev (2014), Maria Trubitsina (2015-2016).