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Title Formal studies in Slovenian syntax : in honor of Janez Orešnik / edited by Franc Maršuič, Rok Z̆aucer
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Series Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; Volume 236
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 236.
Contents Formal Studies in Slovenian Syntax; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Introduction with a State of the Art in Generative Slovenian Syntax; 1. Background; 2. The relevance of Slovenian; 2.1 Orphan accusative; 2.2 The 'feel-like' construction; 2.3 Double applicative constructions; 2.4 Slavic prefixation and resultative secondary predication; 2.5 The adjectival definite article; 2.6 Arguments for and against the Bošković DP/NP hypothesis; 2.7 Closest conjunct agreement; 3. This Volume; References; On second position clitics crosslinguistically; 1. Introduction
2. On the relevance of articles3. Second position clitics; 4. Deducing the second position clitic generalization; 4.1 The bare D account; 4.2 The pro-identification account; 5. Conclusion; References; Participles come back to Slovenian; 1. Introduction; 2. The Slavic languages diverge; 2.1 Russian and its group; 2.2 Slovenian and its group; 2.3 Predicate-phrase vs. noun-phrase element order; 3. Participles lost and regained; 3.1 Russian participles; 3.2 Slovenian participles; 3.3 The passive participle behaves as an adjective; 3.4 Active participles emulate adjectives
3.5 Order not attributable to German4. Is that your final word?; 4.1 Clitics in the participle phrase; 5. Participles and standardization; 6. Instead of a conclusion; References; Restructuring restructuring; 1. Introduction; 2. Restructuring in Slovenian; 3. A syntactic approach; 4. An approach using TTR; 5. Conclusion; References; Clitics are/become Minimal(ist); 1. Three kinds of deficiency; 2. The prosodic deficiency; 2.1 Some stressed clitics in South Slavic; 2.2 Non-initiality: A further prosodic deficiency; 2.3 Against directionality; 3. The semantic deficiency; 3.1 Some extensions
4. The syntactic deficiency4.1 Clitics and movement; 4.2 More on Slvn pronominal clitics; 5. Conclusion: Clitics Come and Go; References; The left periphery of Slovenian relative clauses; 1. The syntax of relative clauses; 1.1 From traditional HEA to Antisymmetry; 1.2 The structure of the RC left periphery; 2. Data from Slovenian relative clauses; 2.1 Empirical support for the proposed structure; 2.2 A closer look at the left periphery; 3. Conclusion; References; Unaccusatives in Slovenian from a Cross-linguistic Perspective; 1. Introduction; 2. General unaccusative diagnostics
2.1 AUX selection2.2 Ne-cliticization; 2.3 Participles in reduced relatives; 2.4 Impersonal passives and impersonal Se construction; 3. Unaccusative diagnostics for Slavic languages; 3.1 The genitive of negation; 3.2 The distributive po-phrase; 3.3 Unaccusatives and the secondary imperfectivization; 3.4 Deverbal agentive nominalizations; 4. Conclusions; References; The modal cycle vs. negation in Slovenian; 1. Introduction; 2. Cyclical change; 3. The diachrony of lahko and moči; 3.1 Earliest Slovenian; 3.2 16th Century; 3.3 17th Century; 3.4 18th Century; 3.5 19th Century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Slovenian language -- Syntax
Formalization (Linguistics)
Linguistic models.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
Formalization (Linguistics)
Linguistic models
Slovenian language -- Syntax
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Marušič, Franc, editor
Žaucer, Rok, editor
Orešnik, Janez, honouree
LC no. 2016052953
ISBN 9789027266286
902726628X