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20180818_152104

A squib in Linguistic Inquiry is finally out!

Posted on October 16, 2018 by asya_0330x

My squib (= short article) entitled “Eventive Nominalizations in Russian and the DP/NP Debate” and originally penned in 2015 is finally out! You can find it in Linguistic Inquiry 49(4): 876-885.

Excerpt:

Eventive nominalizations (ENs) and gerunds in English and other languages are typically analyzed as verbal structures embedded under DP (see, e.g., Abney 1987, Grimshaw 1990). Since many Slavic languages lack articles, the availability of the DP projection in those languages has been hotly disputed (see Pereltsvaig 2013, 2015 for overviews of the debate). Curiously, Russian nominalizations have been used to mount arguments for both the pro-DP position (see Engelhardt and Trugman 1998a,b, Rappaport 1998, 2001, 2004) and the anti-DP position (see Bo’kovic´ 2008, 2012, Bo’kovic´ and S¸ ener 2014). Obviously, both arguments cannot be correct: the same data cannot show both that Russian does not have the DP projection and that it does. As the debate is not yet settled, it is important to verify if either argument based on nominalizations is valid. To date, this has not been done.

In this squib, I reconsider the anti-DP and pro-DP arguments and show both nominalization-based arguments to be wrong. Instead, I argue that all of the nominalization-specific morphosyntax (including genitive case marking) happens lower than the putative DP projection; therefore, nominalizations can tell us nothing special (that we cannot
learn from ordinary noun phrases) about the presence or absence of the DP in article-less languages.

 

Posted in Linguistics, Publications Tagged article published, DP structure, eventive nominalizations, Linguistic Inquiry, nominalizations, Russian, squib, Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics
20180818_152104

New article with Ekaterina Lyutikova and Anastasia Gerasimova PUBLISHED!

Posted on April 24, 2018 by asya_0330x

Our new article is out!

Asya Pereltsvaig, Ekaterina Lyutikova, & Anastasia Gerasimova (2018) Case marking in Russian eventive nominalizations: inherent vs. dependent case theory, Russian Linguistics 37(2): 1-16.

 

Posted in Linguistics, Publications Tagged nominalizations, publications, Russian, Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics
20180818_152104

FASL Talk about Russian Nominalizations and DP Structure Coming Soon

Posted on April 4, 2018April 4, 2018 by asya_0330x

Upon my return from St. Petersburg, Russia, I will be giving a talk on “Word Order and the Structure of Eventive Nominalizations in Russian” at FASL 27 at Stanford University. Looking forward to the event!

Abstract: FASL abstract _nonanonym

Posted in Linguistics, Talks Tagged DP structure, nominalizations, Russian, Syntax, talk

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