CAHA, Pavel. From syncretism to a model of grammar: the case of datives, allatives and locatives. In Linguistic Mondays. Seminar of formal linguistics, October 22, 2018, Praha. 2018.
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Original name From syncretism to a model of grammar: the case of datives, allatives and locatives.
Authors CAHA, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Linguistic Mondays. Seminar of formal linguistics, October 22, 2018, Praha, 2018.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Requested lectures
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/18:00101281
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English syncretism; *ABA; dative; allative
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Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Igor Hlaváč, učo 342491. Changed: 27/3/2019 14:57.
Abstract
In the talk, I focus on a typological generalisation that concerns the marking of datives, allatives and locatives, known as Blansitt's generalisation (Blansitt 1988). A relevant part of the generalisation says that if the dative is the same as the locative, so is the allative. Following a line of analysis going back at least to Jakobson's pioneering work, my goal will be to explain this generalisation from a hypothesis about the meaning (de)composition of the categories in question. I will argue that in order to capture the generalisation, we need privative (rather than binary) features, and I further provide reasons to think that the individual features are organised in a hierarchy, known in the generative literature as the so-called "functional sequence" (Cinque 1999).
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GA17-10144S, research and development projectName: Lineární kontiguita v jazyce
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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