Clustering and declustering things : The meaning of collective
and singulative morphology in Ukrainian

D 2023

Clustering and declustering things : The meaning of collective and singulative morphology in Ukrainian

WĄGIEL, Marcin and Natalia SHLIKHUTKA

Basic information

Original name

Clustering and declustering things : The meaning of collective and singulative morphology in Ukrainian

Authors

WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Natalia SHLIKHUTKA (804 Ukraine)

Edition

Washington, DC, Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33, p. 194-214, 21 pp. 2023

Publisher

Linguistic Society of America

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00133116

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISSN

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/gw2h2150

Keywords in English

collectives; singulatives; clusters; part-whole structures; mereotopology; Ukrainian

Abstract

V originále

Many languages have systems of collective and singulative derivational morphology (e.g., de Vries 2021; Dali & Mathieu 2021b). Recent research on Slavic collectives (Grimm & Dočekal 2021; Wągiel 2021a) and singulatives (Kagan & Nurmio to appear; Kagan, Geist & Erschler to appear) shows the significance of these data for the study of linguistic mechanisms of individuation. In this paper, we contribute by investigating the semantics of two derivational morphemes in Ukrainian: the collective suffix -j- and the singulative suffix -yn-, and the interaction between the two in secondary singulatives, e.g., pero ‘a feather’ -> pirja ‘clustered feathers’ -> pirjina ‘a (small) feather’, and secondary collectives, e.g., popil ‘ash’ -> popelyna ‘a speck of ash’ ⇒ popelynnja ‘clustered specks of ash’. Building on the theory of Grimm (2012), we propose a mereotopological account that explains the Ukrainian data in terms of the ontological distinction between integrated objects and clusters: -j- turns properties of integrated objects into properties of clusters, whereas -yn- takes properties of clusters and yields properties of integrated objects.

Links

MUNI/A/1249/2022, interní kód MU

Name: Lexikon a gramatika češtiny III - 2023

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

WĄGIEL, Marcin and Natalia SHLIKHUTKA. Clustering and declustering things : The meaning of collective and singulative morphology in Ukrainian. Online. In Kim, Juhyae; Öney, Burak; Zhang, Yao; Zhao, Fengyue (Lisa). Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America, 2023, p. 194-214. ISSN 2163-5951. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3765/gw2h2150.

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WĄGIEL, Marcin and Natalia SHLIKHUTKA. Clustering and declustering things : The meaning of collective and singulative morphology in Ukrainian. Online. In Kim, Juhyae; Öney, Burak; Zhang, Yao; Zhao, Fengyue (Lisa). \textit{Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33}. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America, 2023, p.~194-214. ISSN~2163-5951. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3765/gw2h2150.

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