36.2612, Books: Comparative Morphology Across Categories: Vyshnevska (2025)

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Subject: 36.2612, Books: Comparative Morphology Across Categories: Vyshnevska (2025)

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Date: 02-Sep-2025
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Comparative Morphology Across Categories: Vyshnevska (2025)


Title: Comparative Morphology Across Categories
Subtitle: Ukrainian Adjectives, Adverbs, and Deadjectival Verbs
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
           http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0693

Author(s): Anastasiia Vyshnevska

Paperback
ISBN: 978-94-6093-478-0
Pages: 300
Price: €40.00

Abstract:

This dissertation investigates comparative morphology in Ukrainian
adjectives, adverbs, and deadjectival verbs. The comparative suffix in
Ukrainian has two allomorphs: -š, as in molod-š-yj ‘younger’, and
-iš, as in vesel-iš-yj ‘merrier’. I claim that the allomorph -iš is
in fact comprised of two morphemes, -i and -š. I account for the
comparative allomorphy in terms of root sizes using Nanosyntax. Big
roots like molod take only one comparative morpheme, while smaller
roots like vesel take both comparative morphemes. These are simple
adjectives, which consist of the root, the comparative morpeme(s) and
the agreement marker. There are also complex adjectives, which have an
additional morpheme following the root. Considering both simple and
complex adjectives, the main theoretical proposal of this
dissertation is that Ukrainian adjectives come in seven different root
sizes (and shapes), corresponding to seven different empirical
patterns. The size of the root depends on the amount of morphology
present in the comparative: the less morphology a comparative
adjective takes, the bigger its root is. These seven adjectival root
sizes derive both adverbs and deadjectival verbs. Ukrainian
deadjectival verbs show a unique pattern, where the verbs productively
and systematicaly contain comparative morphology.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Subject Language(s): Ukrainian (ukr)




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