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Slavic relative clauses: the case of absolutive relativization (in Czech). Mirjam Fried Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. Constructional and Lexical Semantic Approaches to Russian. March 24-26, 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia. Introduction. Classification of relative clauses - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Mirjam FriedCzech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Constructional and Lexical Semantic Approaches to Russian
March 24-26, 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
IntroductionIntroductionClassification of relative clauses
semantics: restrictiveness vs. non-restrictivenessfunction: attributive vs. non-attributiveformation types:
RC coding strategies (relative position; nominalization, etc.)coding of head N’s function in RC (cf. Comrie 1981)
internally headed RC pronoun-retention (aka ‘echoing’/ ‘resumptive’ pronoun in RC) relative pronoun no overt indication
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IntroductionIntroductionClassification of relative clauses
semantics: restrictiveness vs. non-restrictivenessfunction: attributive vs. non-attributiveformation types:
RC coding strategies (relative position; nominalization, etc.)coding of head N’s function in RC (cf. Comrie 1981)
internally headed RC pronoun-retention (aka ‘echoing’/ ‘resumptive’ pronoun in RC) relative pronoun no overt indication
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Slavic RCsrelative pronoun strategy (frequent in European lgs):
e.g. kotoryj (R) & its equivalents in other languages
absolutive relativizer + personal pronoun (frequent in non-European lgs):e.g. deto (Blg), što (Mac), ki (Slovene), ieže (OCS)
što (BR, R?)
co (Cz, P?), kiž/kenž (U/LSorb)
-- not well described or incorporated in RC family
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In this talk…In this talk…Summarize the absolutive pattern in Czech: (based
on qualitative & frequency-based quantitative evidence, Fried 2011)
corpus-based description of its properties & distributionrelationship to který-RCs within the same functional space,
capturing the dynamic/fluid aspects of the pattern
Sketch a (sample) constructional analysis (e.g. Fillmore 1989, Fried & Östman 2004)
Revisit questions for investigating the absolutive patterns in other Slavic languages
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BackgroundBackgroundRelative clauses with který ‘which’:
restrictive/non-restrictiveno obligatory marking of (non-)restrictivenessagreement in number/gender with head Nstylistically neutral (in terms of register, genre, text-type)typologically:
relatively low on accessibility hierarchy relatively less explicit
can be organized in a semantic & functional taxonomy
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A. restrictive
RCs with relative pronoun RCs with relative pronoun kterkterýý
RC meaning/function
I. determinative II. non-determinative
B. non-restrictive (5)
1. category 2. kind individuating
3. identification 4. characterization
A. explicative (6)
B. Continuative (7)
(TEN) (TEN)
(TEN) *TEN
*TEN
[TEN proper N] [proper N]*TEN
(synthesis of Grepl & Karlík 1998 and Svoboda 1972)
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RCs with absolutive RCs with absolutive coco(8) ta paní, co u nás bydlí, je moc hezká
that woman CO at us lives is much pretty ‘the woman [CO] lives with us is very pretty’
(9) Ten člověk, co jste ho za mnou kdysi poslal,
that man CO AUX.2PL 3SG.ACC after me once sent {viděl jste ho ještě někdy potom?} ‘The man [CO] you sent [him] to me a while back, {did you ever see him again}?
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A “non-standard” variant of A “non-standard” variant of relative pronounrelative pronoun????
Relative clauses with co:absolutive, non-declineable relativizer copersonal pronoun to indicate head N’s grammatical
function in RC; agrees with head N in number/genderoften interchangeable with kterýtypologically (‘pronoun retention pattern’, Comrie 1981):
relatively high on accessibility hierarchy relatively more explicit
lots of unanswered questions about their properties in Slavic…
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Existing analysesExisting analysesonly restrictive meaning no usage of type II
strongly deictic (also their hypothesized origin) collocates with TEN ‘that’ on head N
head N cannot be a bare proper noun
resumptive (‘echoing’, ‘anaphoric’) pronoun:no pronoun in NOM, i.e. SUB function (ex. 8)optional in ACC (ex. 9a vs. 9b)obligatory elsewhere
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Existing analyses in relativization spaceExisting analyses in relativization spaceRC meaning/function
I. determinative II. non-determinative
A. restrictive B. non-restrictive (5)
1. category 2. kind individuating
3. identification 4. characterization
A. Explicative (6)
B. Continuative (7)
(TEN) (TEN)
(TEN) *TEN
*TEN
[TEN proper N] [proper N]*TEN
CO *CO
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kter-kter- constructionconstruction
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat prorel.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
morph.
lxm KTER-
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ case #4[ ] ] }
case #4[ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
RC
RC modification
#1
kter-kter- constructionconstruction
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat prorel.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
morph.
lxm KTER-
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ case #4[ ] ] }
case #4[ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
RC
RC modification
#1
kter-kter- constructionconstruction
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat prorel.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
morph.
lxm KTER-
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ case #4[ ] ] }
case #4[ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
RC
RC modification
#1
coco RC RC construction ??construction ??
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat ??.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
lxm CO
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ case #4[ ] ] }
RC
Absolutive RC modification
#1
case #4[ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.cat propers.
#1
coco RC RC construction ??construction ??
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat ??.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
lxm CO
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ case #4[ ] ] }
RC
Absolutive RC modification
#1
coco RC construction: SUB function in RC RC construction: SUB function in RC
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat ??.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
lxm CO
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ case NOM] }
RC
Absolutive RC modification
#1
coco RC construction: OBL function in RC RC construction: OBL function in RC
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat ??.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
lxm CO
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ case #4[ ] ] }
RC
Absolutive RC modification
#1
case #4[ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.cat propers.
#1
gf obl
Remaining problemsRemaining problems
‘optionality’ of resumptive pronoun in ACC
additional, special patterns (cf. Fried, In press):temporal RCsquantifying RCs
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ACC pronoun in RCACC pronoun in RC(9) a. Ten člověk, co jste ho za mnou kdysi poslal,
that man CO AUX.2PL 3SG.ACC after me once sent {viděl jste ho ještě někdy potom?} ‘The man [CO] you sent [him] to me a while back, {did you ever see him again later}?
b. {Připravil jsem si tu pro každého z vás tisíc korun} za tu práci, co jste ___ se mnou měli
for that work CO AUX.2PL ACC with me had‘{For each of you, I have ready a thousand crowns here} for the work [CO] you had with me’
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coco RC construction: animate OBJRC construction: animate OBJ
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat ??.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
lxm CO
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ gf obj ]]}
RC
Absolutive RC modification
#1
case ACCnum. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.cat propers.
#1sem [anim +]
coco RC construction: inanim. OBJRC construction: inanim. OBJ
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat ??.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
lxm CO
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ gf obj ]]}
RC
Absolutive RC modification
#1
sem [anim -]
sem restrictive
coco RC construction: inanim. OBJRC construction: inanim. OBJ
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat ??.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
lxm CO
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ gf obj ]]}
RC
Absolutive RC modification
#1
case ACCnum. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.cat propers.
#1sem [anim -]
sem ‘explicative’ (= type II-A)
Special patternsSpecial patterns(10) Temporal… od doby, co nám na Národní zavřeli Klub spisovatelů … ‘… from the time [CO] our Writers’ Club on Národní has
been closed down on us …’
(11) Quantifying{Byl to nuzák […]; pomyslné vlastnictví lodí však vydalo}
za všechny drachmy, co jich bylo v Helladě.for all drachmas.ACC CO 3PL.GEN was in Hellada‘{He was a pauper […]; but the imaginary ownership of ships was equivalent} to all the drachmas [CO] were [of them] in Greece.’
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coco RC construction: OBL function in RC RC construction: OBL function in RC
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cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat ??.
role head role modifiercase [ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.
lxm CO
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem frame […]FE #1 [ ]
val {#1 [ case #4[ ] ] }
RC
Absolutive RC modification
#1
case #4[ ]num. #2[ ]gnd. #3[ ]
morph.cat propers.
#1
gf obl
coco RC construction: quantifying RC RC construction: quantifying RC
cat n
cat n
cat vfin.
cat vfin.cat ??.
role modifier
case [ ]num. pl.gnd. [ ]
lxm CO
synmax [ ]lex [ ]
sem …
val {#1 [ ] }
RC
Absolutive RC modification
#1
case GENnum. pl.
morph.
cat propers.
#1
sem quantityuniv. scope
marker‘EVER’
univ. quant.‘ALL’ ‘property expressed by RC applies to all instances
of head N; quantity is judged unusually high’sem
Existing analysesExisting analysesonly restrictive meaning no usage of type II
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RestrictivenessRestrictivenessonly restrictive meaning no usage of type II
Hierarchy of semantic preferences:
identification (type I-A-3)> characterization (I-A-4)> explicative (II-A) [ex. (11), (12)]> kind-of (I-A-2)> non-restr. determinative (I-B)> category (type I-A-1)> *continuative (II-B)
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Existing analysesExisting analysesonly restrictive meaning no usage of type II
strongly deictic head N collocates with TEN ‘that’
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DeixisDeixisonly restrictive meaning no usage of type II
strongly deictic head N collocates with TEN ‘that’
Hierarchy of deictic contexts (TEN N, co), cf. Fried 2011:
N = Anim. sg > Inanim. sg > Anim. pl > Inanim. pl in %: 68 65 35 32
Individuation issue, rather than simply deixis:highly individuated/referential > less individuated
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Existing analysesExisting analysesonly restrictive meaning no usage of type II
strongly deictic (also their hypothesized origin) collocates with TEN ‘that’ on head N
resumptive (‘echoing’, ‘anaphoric’) pronoun:no pronoun in NOM, i.e. SUB function (ex. 8)in ACC (exs. 9, 10) “more common” with inanimate head
Ns and only “optional” with animate head Ns
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Resumptive pronoun & animacyResumptive pronoun & animacyresumptive pronoun is (almost) obligatory with
animate Ns in OBJ function (animate Ns less expected to be non-subjects, therefore marked; for discussion cf. Fried 2010)
resumptive pronoun is dispreferred with inanimate Ns; presence/absence depends on semantic type of RC – explicative vs. restrictive
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Existing analysesExisting analysesonly restrictive meaning no usage of type II
strongly deictic (also their hypothesized origin) collocates with TEN ‘that’ on head N
resumptive (‘echoing’, ‘anaphoric’) pronoun:no pronoun in NOM, i.e. SUB function (ex. 8)in ACC (exs. 9, 10) “more common” with inanimate head
Ns and only “optional” with animate head Ns
co-clauses are not part of standard language
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Stylistic register of absolutive Stylistic register of absolutive coconon-determinative uses (type II) –
tend to be used in emotional, expressive speech, but not exclusively so
special, formulaic patterns (quantifying, temporal) are register-neutral
rest is mixed
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SynthesisSynthesisMost robustly attested RC with absolutive co:
Function: determinative restrictiveSemantics: individuation of head referentHead N: concrete, animate, singular entitySyntax: mix of pronoun-retention
& no overt marking strategies
Non-random distribution of additional functions:spread from identification to non-restrictive contexts
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Two relativization strategies in existing accounts:Two relativization strategies in existing accounts:RC meaning/function
I. determinative II. non-determinative
A. restrictive B. non-restrictive
1. category 2. kind individuating
3. identification 4. characteriz.
A. explicative
B. continuative
(TEN) (TEN)
(TEN) *TEN
*TEN[TEN proper N] [proper N]
*TEN
CO *CO
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Two relativization strategies in corpus sample:Two relativization strategies in corpus sample:RC meaning/function
I. determinative II. non-determinative
A. restrictive B. non-restrictive
1. category 2. kind individuatingindividuating
3. identification3. identification4. characteriz.
A. explicative
B. continuative
(TEN) (TEN)
(TEN) *TEN
*TEN[TEN proper N] [proper N]
*TEN( CO )
*CO
temporaltemporal
quantif.quantif.
CO
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What to do next?What to do next?Absolutive relativization in Slavic
e.g. deto (Blg), što (Mac), ki (Slovene), ieže (OCS)
što (BR, R?)
co (Cz, P?), kiž/kenž (U/LSorb)
existing commentary: colloquial/non-standard; resumptive pronoun “optional” in non-NOM function,
BUT: szczęśliwy ten wojak, co on domu przyjdzie ‘happy is the soldier thatCO [he] comes
home’ (Rospond 1971)38
What to do next?What to do next?Absolutive relativization in Slavic
What are its actual properties and distribution?In what sense is the resumptive pronoun
“optional”, and what determines its use?Why is this strategy ‘missing’ in some
languages? (or is it??)
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Thank you!
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