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FASL 25, ###-###Michigan Slavic Publications

2016

Numerals are Really Prepositions:An Overlooked Phenomenon*

Vanessa SmithUniversity of South-Eastern Bohemia

Rudolph SmithUniversity of North-Western Bohemia

As Igor Mel’čuk noted in his Poverxnostnyj sintaksis russkix čislovyx vyraženij, #### #### ########### ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ######### ######### ######### ##########. The goal of the present study is to attempt an explanation for some of this complexity and variation.

1 Numerals as Such

Slavic numerals include #### #### ########### ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### ##############

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But cf. Ford (2007) for arguments against treating numerals as prepositions.

Collins and Faber (2011) list Polish as belonging to the second group, by my informant finds (i) ungrammatical:(i) a. * dumny z Jana mężczyzna

b. ??wierny studentom professorRussian appears to allow the word order of the second group, though one informant finds comparable examples ungrammatical as well.

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(1) a. Vanya napisal tri knigi. Vanya wrote threeACC books“GEN.SG”

‘Vanya wrote three books.’b. Vanya napisal pjat’ knig.

Vanya wrote fiveACC booksGEN.PL

‘Vanya wrote five books.’

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2 Numerals in Contemporary Russian

As pointed out in the previous section, #### ########### ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ######### ######### ######### ############## #### ########### ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### I will briefly outline an analysis of these facts.

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NUMERALS ARE REALLY PREPOSITIONS

2.1 General ConsiderationsA total of sixty-seven native speakers have ########## ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### ####### ####### ########## ########### ########## ######## ###### ############ ##### ########### ######### ######## ###### ########## ########### ########## ############## ### ##### #### ##### ########### ######### ### ########### ########## ########### ########## ############## ###### ###### ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## as reported below.2

2.2 Results and Discussion2.2.1 Basic Facts. When it comes to certain types of nouns, ########### ########## ############## ###### ###### ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ############## ############ structures. One such example is this:

(2) Tento článek je opravdu zajímavý.This article is really interesting‘This article is really interesting.’

Interestingly, ########### ########## ############## ###### ###### ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ############## ############ structures. The results are presented in Fig.1.

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Fig. 1: Speakers’ acceptance of case/number forms

As can be seen from this graph, for a group of females, the most acceptable form is nominative plural (47/69 speakers, or 68.1%), and the second best form is genitive plural (27/69 speakers, or 39.1%).

2.2.2 Further Facts. When it comes to certain types of nouns, ########### ########## ############## ###### ###### ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ############## ############ structures.

3 The Proposed Account

From the above discussion one thing is clear: ###### ###### ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ############## ############ ##### ########### ######### ############## ########## ########### ########## ############## ################## ###### ##### ###########

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Total number of speakers: 69

M 0 15 45 52

F 47 27 29 0

B 0 15 57 1

tri Ivanovy (NOM.PL)

tri Ivanovyx (GEN.PL)

troe (COLL) Ivanovyx

tri Ivanova (GEN.MASC

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(3) Lena najelas’ kotlet.Lena na-ate-sja burgerGEN.PL

‘Lena ate her fill of burgers.’

Another consequence of the proposal that syntactic [Number] feature is specified on the Q° rather than N° concerns pluralia tantum nouns.

5 Conclusions

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Bailyn, John and Andrew Nevins. 2008. Russian Genitive Plurals are Impostors. In Inflectional Identity, ed. Andrew Nevins & Asaf Bachrach. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Franks, Steven. 1995. Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Franks, Steven. 1998. Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax Revisited: A Minimalist Retrospective. In Proceedings of FASL 6, 134-165. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.

Ionin, Tania and Ora Matushansky. 2006. The Composition of Complex Cardinals. Journal of Semantics 23: 315–360.

Mayo, Peter. 1993. Belorussian. In The Slavonic Languages, ed. Bernard Comrie and Greville Corbett, 887-946. London: Routledge.

Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2006a. Small nominals. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24: 433-500.

Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2006b. Passing by Cardinals: In support of Head Movement in Nominals. In Proceedings of FASL 14, 277-292. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications.

Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2007. On the Universality of DP: A View from Russian. Studia Linguistica 61: 59-94.

Shevelov, George Y. 1993. Ukrainian. In The Slavonic Languages, ed. Bernard Comrie and Greville Corbett, 947-998. London: Routledge.

Zaliznjak, Andrej A. 1964. K voprosu o grammaticheskix kategorijax roda i odushevlennosti v russkom jazyke. Voprosy jazykoznanija 4: 25-40.

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