Iterative/semelfactive = collective/singulative? Parallels in Slavic
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F25%3A00141816" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/25:00141816 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10090203" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10090203</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages10090203" target="_blank" >10.3390/languages10090203</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Iterative/semelfactive = collective/singulative? Parallels in Slavic
Original language description
In this paper, I will discuss a topic concerning part–whole structures in the nominal and verbal domain. Specifically, I will address the question of whether there is a universal mechanism for the individuation of entities and events by exploring parallels between singulatives and semelfactives in Slavic. Singulatives are derived unit nouns, whereas semelfactives are punctual verbs that describe a brief event which culminates by returning to the initial state. Cross-linguistically, singulative morphology often alternates with collective marking, whereas semelfactives alternate with iteratives. Collectives and iteratives describe homogenous groupings of entities and events, respectively. From a conceptual perspective, both singulatives and semelfactives individuate to the effect of singular bounded unit reference and in the literature, the parallel between the mass count/distinction and aspect has often been drawn. In Slavic, singulative and semelfactive morphologies share a component; specifically, both markers involve a nasal -N and a vocalic component, e.g., compare Russian gorox ‘peas (as a mass)’ ∼ goroš-IN-a ‘a pea’ and prygat’ ‘to jump (repeatedly)’ ∼ pryg-NU-t’ ‘to jump once’. I will argue that the singulative -IN and semelfactive -NU are complex and both involve the very same -N, which denotes a declustering atomizer modeled in mereotopological terms.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EH23_025%2F0008726" target="_blank" >EH23_025/0008726: A lifetime with language: the nature and ontogeny of linguistic communication (LangInLife)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Languages
ISSN
2226-471X
e-ISSN
2226-471X
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
36
Pages from-to
1-36
UT code for WoS article
001581336300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105017433832