{"id":289,"date":"2019-11-07T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/?p=289"},"modified":"2019-11-12T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:40:45","slug":"prefixes-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/2019\/11\/07\/prefixes-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavic prefixes are verb classifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Principal investigator:<\/strong> Laura A. Janda<\/p>\n

Project title:<\/strong> Slavic prefixes are verb classifiers<\/p>\n

Summary of the project: <\/strong><\/p>\n

What do Slavic aspectual prefixes have in common with numeral classifiers? Our answer is that the parallels are compelling, both in terms of breadth and depth. The grammatical function of numeral classifiers is to form and classify units for the referents of nouns, and we argue that Slavic aspectual prefixes have the function of forming and classifying units for the referents of verbs. Numeral classifiers contribute a meaning of discreteness to objects, whereas Slavic aspectual prefixes do the same for events. Just as there are various types of numeral classifiers, there are also various types of Slavic aspectual prefixes. We find that the patterns identified for numeral classifiers are consistently matched by the grammatical behavior of the various types of aspectual prefixes throughout the Slavic linguistic territory. We furthermore anchor this comparison in a variety of ways, taking into account distributional and semantic evidence, and the effects of construal, foregrounding, definiteness, and transnumerality. In the places where this comparison breaks down, the causes are inherent differences between the domain of nouns and the domain of verbs. We suggest that Slavic aspectual prefixes and numeral classifiers should be considered to be verbal and nominal instantiations of a general category of lexico-grammatical unitizers.<\/p>\n

Project duration: <\/strong>2012 \u2013 2015<\/p>\n

Collaborators:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen M. Dickey, U Kansas<\/p>\n

Tore Nesset, UiT<\/p>\n

Svetlana Sokolova, UiT<\/p>\n

Anna Endresen, UiT<\/p>\n

Anastasia Makarova, UiT<\/p>\n

Olga Lyashevskaya, Higher School of Economics, Moscow<\/p>\n

Funding:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grant from Norges forskningsr\u00e5d\/Norwegian Research Council for project \u201cNeat theories, messy realities: How to apply absolute definitions to gradient phenomena\u201d 2011-2014<\/p>\n

Grant from the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for the project \u201cTime is Space: Unconscious Models and Conscious Acts\u201d 2011-2012<\/p>\n

Key publications: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time and Space in Russian Temporal Expressions<\/em> (= Russian Linguistics<\/em> 37, No. 3). 2013. Edited by Stephen M. Dickey, Laura A. Janda, and Tore Nesset.<\/p>\n

Aspect in Slavic: Creating Time, Creating Grammar<\/em> (= Journal of Slavic Linguistics<\/em>, v. 21, number 1). Edited by Laura A. Janda. 2013. 204pp.<\/p>\n

Why Russian aspectual prefixes aren\u2019t empty: prefixes as verb classifiers<\/em>. 2013. Janda as first author; co-authored with Anna Endresen, Julia Kuznetsova, Olga Lyashevskaya, Anastasia Makarova, Tore Nesset, Svetlana Sokolova. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. 227pp.<\/p>\n

Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Janda, Laura A. \u201cWhy neither the prefixes nor our arguments are empty\u201d. Russian Language Journal <\/em>2015 (Published in 2016) 65, 99-120.<\/p>\n

Janda, Laura A. \u201cVerbal Prefixation in Russian\u201d. 2015. Mundo Eslavo <\/em>14, 7-25.<\/p>\n

Dickey, Stephen M., Laura A. Janda. 2015. \u201cSlavic Aspectual Prefixes and Numeral Classifiers: Two Kinds of Lexico-Grammatical Unitizers\u201d. Lingua<\/em> 168, 57-84. DOI: 10.1016\/j.lingua.2015.09.005<\/a><\/p>\n

Janda, Laura A. \u201cIs Russian a verb classifier language?\u201d In Gianina Iord\u0103chioaia, Isabelle Roy, Kaori Takamine (eds.) 2013. Categorization and Category Change<\/em>, 59-86. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.<\/p>\n

Janda, Laura A. \u201cRussian \u2018purely aspectual\u2019 prefixes: Not so \u2018empty\u2019 after all?\u201d, co-authored with Anna Endresen, Julia Kuznetsova, Olga Lyashevskaya, Anastasia Makarova, Tore Nesset, Svetlana Sokolova. Scando-Slavica<\/em> 58:2 (2012), 231-291.<\/p>\n

Janda, Laura A. \u201cRusskie pristavki kak sistema glagol\u2019nyx klassifikatorov\u201d. Voprosy jazykoznanija<\/em> 6 (2012), 3-47.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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