Grammars of Participle Agreement with Conjoined Subjects in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.
This paper shows that Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), like Slovenian, has three distinct strategies for subject-predicate agreement when the subject consists of conjoined noun phrases: (i) agreement with the maximal projection, a Boolean Phrase (&P); (ii) agreement with the conjunct that is closest...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Slavic Linguistics Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 71 - 113 |
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Indiana University, Slavic Department
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=116855767&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 116855767 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10682090 GAD jtl: Journal of Slavic Linguistics issn: 10682090 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Winter/Spring2016 vid: 24 iid: 1 pid: 12260 pub: Indiana University, Slavic Department artinfo: ui: 116855767 ppf: 71 ppct: 42 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 8MB tig: atl: Grammars of Participle Agreement with Conjoined Subjects in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. aug: au: Čordalija, Nermina Beić, Amra Jovović, Ivana Marijanović, Nevenka Perković, Lidija aljić, Midhat Telalagić, Denana Leko, Nedad affil: University of Groningen (IDEALAB), Center for Language and Cognition, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, 9712 EK Groningen, The Netherlands University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy, Franje Račkog 1, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosna and Herzegovina su: Morphosyntax Participle phrases (Grammar) Topic & comment (Grammar) Serbo-Croatian language Bosnian language sug: subj: Morphosyntax Participle phrases (Grammar) Topic & comment (Grammar) Serbo-Croatian language Bosnian language ab: This paper shows that Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), like Slovenian, has three distinct strategies for subject-predicate agreement when the subject consists of conjoined noun phrases: (i) agreement with the maximal projection, a Boolean Phrase (&P); (ii) agreement with the conjunct that is closest to the participle; (iii) agreement with the conjunct that is hierarchically the highest. In order to test the initial hypothesis that there are three agreement strategies, a controlled experimental study of the morphosyntactic agreement between conjoined subjects and participles in BCS was conducted, consisting of three experiments: an oral-production experiment, a written-production experiment, and an acceptability-judgment task. The experiments showed a high presence of default agreement and closest-conjunct agreement. Of the preverbal conjoined phrases, 50% elicited default masculine agreement, while 95% of postverbal conjoined noun phrases elicited closest-conjunct agreement. However, the bulk of the analysis was focused on the possibility of treating highest-conjunct agreement (HCA) as a legitimate agreement strategy. The agreement forms in the preverbal-subject (SV) examples showed HCA 7% of the time. Moreover, acceptability-judgment results showed that scores for HCA examples ranged between 2 and 3 (1 = weakly acceptable; 5 = strongly acceptable). Last-conjunct agreement (LCA) for postverbal-subject (VS) examples, on the other hand, occurred only in 1% of the examples in the corpus, and these examples were mostly rated weakly acceptable by native speakers (1.5/5 on average). For this reason, they were classified as performance errors, eliminating LCA as an agreement strategy. The overall results go against Boković (2009), who does not acknowledge HCA as a legitimate strategy, but they confirm the findings of Maruič, Nevins, and Badecker (2015). pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Slavic Linguistics is the property of Indiana University, Slavic Department and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Slavic Linguistics holder: Indiana University, Slavic Department dt: @attributes: year: 2016 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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