A corpus approach to the history of Russian po delimitatives
Abstract This paper illustrates how enriched diachronic treebank data can shed new light on an old and vexed topic, even when that topic is primarily morphological and semantic in nature rather than syntactic. The topic is the rise of the Russian po delimitatives, a change seen as crucial in most ac...
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crjohnbenjaminsp:10.1075/dia.00006.eck 2024-06-09T07:49:59+00:00 A corpus approach to the history of Russian po delimitatives Eckhoff, Hanne Martine 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.00006.eck http://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/dia.00006.eck.pdf en eng John Benjamins Publishing Company https://benjamins.com/content/customers/rights Diachronic Treebanks Diachronica volume 35, issue 3, page 338-366 ISSN 0176-4225 1569-9714 journal-article 2018 crjohnbenjaminsp https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.00006.eck 2024-05-15T13:26:32Z Abstract This paper illustrates how enriched diachronic treebank data can shed new light on an old and vexed topic, even when that topic is primarily morphological and semantic in nature rather than syntactic. The topic is the rise of the Russian po delimitatives, a change seen as crucial in most accounts of the history of Russian aspect, since it represents a major step in generalising the derivational aspect system. Earlier accounts concur that the po delimitatives spread fairly recently, too recently for the development to be connected to the loss of the aorist tense, which also had delimitative readings with atelic verbs. Using treebank data from the Tromsø Old Russian and Old Church Slavonic Treebank, enriched with tags for derivational morphology and semantics, I show that the po delimitatives were not marginal even in the earliest Slavic sources, either in terms of frequency or semantics, and that they first complemented and then competed with the delimitative aorists. It can thus be claimed that the exotic po delimitatives grew organically out of the old Indo-European inflectional aspect system. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø John Benjamins Publishing Company Tromsø Diachronica 35 3 338 366 |
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Abstract This paper illustrates how enriched diachronic treebank data can shed new light on an old and vexed topic, even when that topic is primarily morphological and semantic in nature rather than syntactic. The topic is the rise of the Russian po delimitatives, a change seen as crucial in most accounts of the history of Russian aspect, since it represents a major step in generalising the derivational aspect system. Earlier accounts concur that the po delimitatives spread fairly recently, too recently for the development to be connected to the loss of the aorist tense, which also had delimitative readings with atelic verbs. Using treebank data from the Tromsø Old Russian and Old Church Slavonic Treebank, enriched with tags for derivational morphology and semantics, I show that the po delimitatives were not marginal even in the earliest Slavic sources, either in terms of frequency or semantics, and that they first complemented and then competed with the delimitative aorists. It can thus be claimed that the exotic po delimitatives grew organically out of the old Indo-European inflectional aspect system. |
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