Subject pro-drop and past-tense auxiliary clitics in South-Western Ukrainian.
South-Western Ukrainian dialects have retained the option of auxiliary clitics in the formation of the past tense. At the same time, they have past-tense forms without auxiliary clitics as in Northern Ukrainian dialects, and in Standard Ukrainian based on South-Eastern dialects. A sample corpus stud...
| Publicado en: | Russian Linguistics Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 201 - 217 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=160682098&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 160682098 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03043487 3W1 jtl: Russian Linguistics issn: 03043487 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2022 vid: 46 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 160682098 10.1007/s11185-022-09260-x ppf: 201 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 743KB tig: atl: Subject pro-drop and past-tense auxiliary clitics in South-Western Ukrainian. aug: au: Fellerer, Jan affil: Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK su: Mirror images Language contact Dialects Borderlands sug: subj: Mirror images Language contact Dialects Borderlands ab: South-Western Ukrainian dialects have retained the option of auxiliary clitics in the formation of the past tense. At the same time, they have past-tense forms without auxiliary clitics as in Northern Ukrainian dialects, and in Standard Ukrainian based on South-Eastern dialects. A sample corpus study suggests that South-Western Ukrainian also shows a higher frequency of subject pro-drop than Standard Ukrainian. The South-Western Ukrainian pattern presents the precise mirror image of the same two features in South-Eastern 'Borderland' Polish. Here, the dialect adopted the option of past-tense forms without auxiliary clitics, next to those with them as in Standard Polish. At the same time, it shows a higher frequency of non-pro-drop than Standard Polish. I argue that these matching facts are the result of long- standing language contact that worked simultaneously in two directions: the increase in the use of an existing dialectal Ukrainian pattern under Polish influence, as well as the increase in the use of an existing dialectal Polish pattern under Ukrainian influence. As a result, both dialects show the same variation between past-tense forms with auxiliary clitics and without them, and they have mutually converging tendencies in subject pro-drop – the Ukrainian dialect adapting towards Polish pro-drop, and the Polish dialect towards Ukrainian non-pro- drop. The bi-directionality of influence in the SWU dialectal area, thus, goes beyond other, unidirectional language-contact scenarios. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Russian Linguistics is a copyright of Springer, 2022. All Rights Reserved. item: Russian Linguistics holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2022 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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