Clustering and declustering things : The meaning of collective and singulative morphology in Ukrainian
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/gw2h2150" target="_blank" >10.3765/gw2h2150</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Clustering and declustering things : The meaning of collective and singulative morphology in Ukrainian
Original language description
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.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33
ISBN
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ISSN
2163-5951
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
194-214
Publisher name
Linguistic Society of America
Place of publication
Washington, DC
Event location
Yale University
Event date
Jan 1, 2023
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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