The accusative/genitive alternation in Bosnian/ Croatian/Serbian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22130785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Halima Husić (0000-0001-9617-1071, Ruhr University Bochum), Agata Renans (0000-0001-5209-4588, Ruhr University Bochum) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Glossa a journal of general linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2397-1835 • E-ISSN: 2397-1835 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16995/glossa.5701 |
| OpenAlex | W4220944130 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
There is an ongoing discussion in the literature on how the meaning conveyed by (in)definite determiners is expressed in languages which lack an (in)definite article system (see e.g., Chierchia 1998; Dayal 2004; Deal 2017). One proposal is that in Slavic languages the meaning conveyed by (in)definite determiners is expressed by case markers (e.g., Kagan 2007; Khrizman 2014; Borschev et al. 2008). In particular, the observation was that in the case of the accusative/ genitive alternation, the accusative is associated with the meaning conveyed by definites, while the genitive case is associated with the meaning conveyed by indefinites. We tested this observation in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) focusing on the alternation of the accusative with the partitive genitive in the direct object position of transitive verbs. The results of our research show that whereas the accusative conveys the inferences of maximality and weak familiarity of the discourse referent, the genitive case does not. We propose that the partitive genitive in BCS presupposes proper partitivity. The inferences of the accusative, on the other hand, arise as implicated anti-presuppositions yielded by the competition with the partitive genitive
Allomorph · Animacy · Definiteness · Genitive case · Linguistics · Morpheme · Noun · Referent · Serbian · Slavic languages · Transitive relation · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax
Definite Descriptions
Uniqueness in Definite Noun Phrases
Number Marking and (in)Definiteness in Kind Terms
Definiteness, Uniqueness, and Maximality in Languages With and Without Articles
Constraints on the position and interpretation of bare singular indefinites in Russian
Genitive objects, existence and individuation
Information Structure and the Status of Np in Russian
Partitives, Double Genitives and Anti-Uniqueness
Semantics in Generative Grammar
Hierarchies in the Genitive of Negation
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook
Countability distinctions and semantic variation
On the Methodology of Semantic Fieldwork
Reference to Kinds across Language
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