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2022
A mereotopological account of Ukrainian singulatives
WĄGIEL, Marcin and Natalia SHLIKHUTKABasic information
Original name
A mereotopological account of Ukrainian singulatives
Authors
WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Natalia SHLIKHUTKA (804 Ukraine)
Edition
15th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 15), 06/10/2022, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2022
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher
Germany
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129371
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
singulatives; mereology; mereotopology; part-whole; mass-count; Ukrainian
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 16/1/2023 21:02, Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
Singulatives are derived unit nouns, i.e., expressions designating a singular object individuated from a plurality perceived as a homogeneous collection of entities. Singulative morphology is attested cross-linguistically, e.g., in Brittonic Celtic, Semitic, Cushitic, Nilo-Saharan as well as East Slavic (Wierzbicka 1988, Corbett 2000, Dimmendaal 2000, Acquaviva 2015). Recent research on the structural and semantic properties of the suffix -in- in Russian reveal the theoretical relevance of Slavic data (Kagan & Nurmio forthcoming, Kagan et al. forthcoming). Inspired by that work, in this paper we will examine Ukrainian word formations such as pisok `sand' -> pišč-yna `a grain of sand' and propose a meretopological analysis on which the singulative morpheme -yna is an atomizer of sorts (Scontras 2014). Specifically, it selects for an aggregate predicate, i.e., a property of entities prototypically conceptualized as clusters, and turns it into a predicate of discrete singular integrated wholes.
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