Diachronic Slavonic Syntax: The Interplay between Internal Development, Language Contact and Metalinguistic Factors

Diachronic Slavonic Syntax: The Interplay between Internal Development, Language Contact and Metalinguistic Factors
Contents
Introduction
1 Interplay of factors
1.1 Linguistic factors: Internal and external causes
1.2 Metalinguistic factors: Selection and propagation
1.3 Data related factors: Data basis and analysis
2 Relevance of Slavonic
3 Contributions
References
Part I: The noun phrase
Jürgen Fuchsbauer: Some observations on the usage of adnominal genitives and datives in Middle Bulgarian Church Slavonic
1 Language and translation technique in 14th century Bulgaria
2 Case usage in the two Slavonic translations of the Dioptra
3 The competition of genitive and dative in adnominal position
4 Conclusion
References
Hanne Martine Eckhoff: Quantifying syntactic influence: Word order, possession and definiteness in Old Church Slavonic and Greek
1 Introduction
2 Data and method
2.1 Statistical classification: CART trees and Random Forests
2.2 A note on the information structure annotation in the PROIEL corpus
3 Case study 1: Word order
3.1 The order of verbs and direct objects
3.2 The order of adnominal possessor and its nominal head
3.3 Summary
4 Case study 2: Possessive constructions
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Greek predictors
4.3 Full set of predictors
4.4 Summary
5 Conclusions
References
Silvia Luraghi & Milena Krstić: The decay of cases in Molise Slavonic
1 Introduction
1.1 Molise Slavonic
1.2 Noun morphology
1.3 The data
2 Use of cases
2.1 Nominative/vocative
2.2 Accusative
2.3 Genitive
2.4 Dative
2.5 Instrumental
2.6 Locative
3 Discussion
3.1 Cases and prepositions: MS and other SC varieties
3.2 Cases and prepositions: Other Slavonic languages
3.3 Language contact
3.4 Semi-speakers
3.5 Cases and prepositions in MS
3.6 Language death and the decay of the case system
4 Conclusion
References
Part II: The verbal phrase and related topics
Hakyung Jung: Null subjects and person in Old North Russian
1 Introduction
2 The syntax of null subjects
2.1 Null subject languages
2.2 Licensing of null subjects and person features
3 Existing accounts of null subject patterns in Old Russian
3.1 Borkovskij (1949, 1968, 1978)
3.2 Zaliznjak (2004, 2008)
3.3 Meyer (2011)
3.4 Questions and issues
4 Null subjects in ONR
4.1 Data statistics
4.2 Problems and analysis
5 Historical and comparative issues
5.1 From Old Russian to Modern Russian
5.2 Finnish/Lithuanian vs. Old and Modern Russian
6 Conclusion
References
Björn Hansen: On the permeability of grammars: Syntactic pattern replications in heritage Croatian and heritage Serbian spoken in Germany
1 Introduction
2 Croatian and Serbian as heritage languages
3 Theoretical basis: A typology of syntactic pattern replications
3.1 Contact induced grammaticalization
3.2 Polysemy copying of a grammatical function
3.3 Restructuring
4 Pilot studies Hansen, Romić, and Kolaković (2013) and Romić (2016)
5 Syntactic structures affected by PAT in heritage Croatian and Serbian
5.1 Valence and linking
5.2 Non-canonical subject constructions
5.3 Prepositional phrases
5.4 Word order
5.4.1 The syntax of Clitics
5.5 Agreement
6 Conclusions
References
Imke Mendoza: Possessive resultative constructions in Old and Middle Polish
1 Introduction
2 Definition of resultative constructions
3 Characteristics of possessive resultative constructions in Old and Middle Polish
3.1 Syntax
3.1.1 Object and agreement
3.1.2 Expression of beneficiary
3.1.3 Word order
3.2 Semantics
3.2.1 Verb
3.2.2 Object
3.2.3 Subject and agent
3.3 Possessive constructions proper vs. possessive resultative constructions
4 Possessive resultative constructions in OMP and in Modern Polish
5 Possible origins of possessive resultative constructions
6 Conclusion
Appendix: List of documents analysed
List of abbreviations
References
Slobodan Pavlović: Mechanisms of word order change in 12th and 13th century Serbian
1 Introduction
2 Distribution of enclitics
2.1 The sentential enclitic li
2.2 Noun phrase enclitics
2.3 Predicate phrase enclitics
3 Subject, predicate and object positions
3.1 Models of subject-predicate ordering
3.2 Models of predicate-object ordering
3.3 Development tendency
4 Linearization of the noun phrase
4.1 Noun phrase with a concordant modifier
4.2 Noun phrase with a non-concordant modifier
4.3 Development tendency
5 Change in linearization as a result of typological change
5.1 Wackernagel’s law and establishing homogeneous phrasal structures
5.2 SVO ordering and development of syntactic transitivity
5.3 From non-configurational to configurational syntax
List of abbreviations
References
Sandra Birzer: Historical development and contemporary usage of discourse structuring elements based on verba dicendi in Croatian
1 Introduction
2 Defining DSEs
3 Corpus data
4 Constructions with govoreći and rečeno in Contemporary Croatian
4.1 The stance-marking function
4.2 The contextualizing function
4.3 The quotative index
4.4 The direct speech marking function
5 Historical development
5.1 State of the art
5.2 Analysis of diachronic data
5.2.1 Development until the first half of the 17th century
5.2.2 The second half of the 17th and the 18th centuries
5.2.3 The 19th and 20th centuries
6 Conclusion
References
Part III: The complex sentence
Marina Kurešević: The status and origin of the accusativus cum infinitivo construction in Old Church Slavonic
1 Introduction
2 Accusativus cum infinitivo in OCS
2.1 Typology of AcInf. in OCS
2.2 AcInf. in Codex Marianus
3 AcInf. in Slavonic perspective
3.1 AcInf. in Slavonic languages
3.2 AcInf. in the Serbian Alexander Romance
4 AcInf. in Indo-European perspective
5 Emergence of AcInf. in OCS: Explanations of the causes and mechanisms
6 Conclusion
Sources
References
Björn Wiemer: On triangulation in the domain of clause linkage and propositional marking
1 Introduction
2 On triangulation, areal patterns and types of language change
2.1 Triangulation in a nutshell
2.2 On types of language change
3 Complex sentences and marking of suspended assertiveness
3.1 From a demonstrative to the most ubiquitous South Slavonic connective
3.1.1 Etymological background
3.2 OCS: From particle to complementation and “analytic morphology”
3.3 South Slavonic: From subordinator to part of the verbal paradigm
3.4 Looking more broadly: Da spreading into opposite directions
4 North Slavonic ‘as if’-complementation
4.1 Jako(že) in OCS
4.2 Kako in South Slavonic
4.3 Jako + by > jakoby in North Slavonic
4.3.1 The latest stages in West Slavonic
4.3.2 Development in Polish
4.3.3 Jakoby in Russian
4.4 Jakoby: Knitting the threads together
5 Preliminary conclusions and postulates
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
References
Jasmina Grković-Major: The development of perception verb complements in the Serbian language
1 Introduction
2 Perception verb complements in OCS
2.1 Accusative with participle
2.2 Jako-complement
2.3 Kako-complement
2.4 Kъde-complement
3 Perception verb complements in the history of Serbian
3.1 Accusative with participle / gerund
3.2 Jer(e)- and da-complements
3.3 Kako-complement
3.4 Gde-complement
3.5 Accusative object + da- / gde- / kako-complements
3.6 Accusative with infinitive
4 Discussion and conclusions
Sources
References
Andrii Danylenko: A tale of two pathways: On the development of relative clause chaining in East Slavonic
1 Introduction
2 Distribution of the relative clause formations in East Slavonic
2.1 Ukrainian
2.2 Belarusian
2.3 Russian
3 Discussion
4 Areal-typological outlook
References
Barbara Sonnenhauser: Relativisation strategies in Slovene: Diachrony between language use and language description
1 The ‘oziralna dvoica’ ki and kateri
2 Diachrony I: Usage
2.1 The Freising manuscripts (10th/11th century)
2.2 Early Slovene manuscripts (14th–16th century)
2.3 Protestant texts (16th century)
2.4 Contemporary Slovene
2.5 Summing up
3 Diachrony II: Descriptions
3.1 Ki
3.2 Kateri
3.3 Summing up
4 Interplay of factors
4.1 Internal development: Language change
4.2 External stimuli: Language contact
4.3 Metalinguistic factors: Language description
5 Conclusion
References
Index