32.2986, Books: Russian verbal prefixation: Zinova

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Subject: 32.2986, Books: Russian verbal prefixation: Zinova

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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 22:08:52
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Russian verbal prefixation: Zinova

 


Title: Russian verbal prefixation 
Subtitle: A frame semantic analysis 
Series Title: Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/150 


Author: Yulia Zinova

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961102983 Pages: 396 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This book addresses the complexity of Russian verbal prefixation system that
has been extensively studied but yet not explained. Traditionally, different
meanings have been investigated and listed in the dictionaries and grammars
and more recently linguists attempted to unify various prefix usages under
more general descriptions. The existent semantic approaches, however, do not
aim to use semantic representations in order to account for the problems of
prefix stacking and aspect determination. This task has been so far undertaken
by syntactic approaches to prefixation, that divide verbal prefixes in classes
and limit complex verb formation by restricting structural positions available
for the members of each class. I show that these approaches have two major
drawbacks: the implicit prediction of the non-existence of complex biaspectual
verbs and the absence of uniformly accepted formal criteria for the underlying
prefix classification. In this book the reader can find an implementable
formal semantic approach to prefixation that covers five prefixes: za-, na-,
po-, pere-, and do-. It is shown how to predict the existence, semantics, and
aspect of a given complex verb with the help of the combination of an LTAG and
frame semantics. The task of identifying the possible affix combinations is
distributed between three modules: syntax, which is kept simple (only basic
structural assumptions), frame semantics, which ensures that the constraints
are respected, and pragmatics, which rules out some prefixed verbs and
restricts the range of available interpretations. For the purpose of the
evaluation of the theory, an implementation of the proposed analysis for a
grammar fragment using a metagrammar description is provided. It is shown that
the proposed analysis delivers more accurate and complete predictions with
respect to the existence of complex verbs than the most precise syntactic
account.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Russian (rus)


Written In: English  (eng)

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