27.2515, TOC: Acta Linguistica Hungarica 62/2 (2015)

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Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:27:03
From: Zoltán Páll [zoltan.pall at akademiai.hu]
Subject: Acta Linguistica Hungarica Vol.62, No.2 (2015)

Publisher:	Akadémiai Kiadó
			http://www.akademiai.com/ 

Journal Title:  Acta Linguistica Hungarica 
Volume Number:  62 
Issue Number:  2 
Issue Date:  2015 

Main Text:  

Bidaud, Samuel
Emanuele Banfi & Nicola Grandi: Lingue d’Europa. Elementi di storia e di
tipologia linguistica. Roma: Carocci editore, 2012. pp 262. 
10.1556/064.2015.62.2.5
pp. 219-222.

Bodnárová, Zuzana; Wiedner, Jakob
Analogical extension of vowel length in Vend Romani 
10.1556/064.2015.62.2.3
pp. 157-170.

Abstract: Distinctive vowel length has been only recently re-introduced into
the Romani varieties that have been in intimate contact with the various
languages of Europe exhibiting vowel quantity. This article describes the
process of analogical extension that accounts for certain intra-dialectal
variation of vowel length found within the South Central Romani dialect group.
The emergence of vowel length by means of this process is demonstrated by the
example of the possessive pronouns and the remoteness suffix of Vend Romani, a
variety spoken in Western Hungary. This analysis also discusses the
phonological and semantic constraints of the examined instances of analogical
change.

Balogné Bérces, Katalin
Consonant lenition inside and outside the “minimal foot” A Strict CV Phonology
analysis 10.1556/064.2015.62.2.2
pp. 141-155. 

Abstract: English represents stress-sensitive consonant lenition systems, in
which the onsets of stressed syllables (as well as word-initial consonants)
tend to resist diachronic lenition, resulting in synchronic alternations
between foot-initial and foot-internal variants. However, there is empirical
evidence that a further distinction needs to be drawn between two subtypes of
foot-internal positions: one which is weak proper, included within a bimoraic
domain (corresponding to the “minimal foot” in prosodic approaches); and a
less weak (“semi-weak”) position outside that minimal domain. Crucially,
lenition outside the domain implies lenition within, and no cases of lenition
in semi-weak only are on record. The paper (…)

Acedo-Matellán, Victor; Real-Puigdollers, Cristina
Location and locatum verbs revisited: Evidence from aspect and quantification
10.1556/064.2015.62.2.1
pp. 111-140.

Abstract: In this paper we claim that location and locatum verbs are
grammatically different, contrary to some recent analyses (Mateu 2001; 2008;
Harley 2005). While aspectual tests are known to distinguish both classes, we
adduce new evidence from degree quantification tests pointing in the same
direction. In particular, location verbs seem to be change-of-state verbs, and
locatum verbs behave rather like degree achievements and unergative verbs of
variable telicity. We claim that these differences must be accounted for in
the syntactic representation of locative verbs. While location verbs involve
an abstract bounded path, articulated through the combination of a Path
preposition and a Place preposition, locatum verbs involve an abstract
predicative preposition that allows for degree quantification of the root and
contextually determined (a)telicity.

Usenkova, Eleonora
Evidentiality in the Samoyedic languages: A study of the auditive forms 
10.1556/064.2015.62.2.4
pp. 171-217. 

Abstract: In the Samoyedic languages non-visuality is marked by the affixes of
a specific Auditive mood that is explored in this paper from paradigmatic and
syntagmatic perspectives. The focus is on various usages of the Auditive in
its paradigmatic meaning, as well as on correlation of the meaning of this
mood with the semantic properties of the predicates it marks. The work also
examines the emergence of the Auditive in the functional sphere of other
moods, the use of other moods as functional equivalents of the Auditive, and
the semantic grounds for these transpositions.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Romani
                      Samoyed 

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