Linguistica  

Gašper Ilc, Franciška Lipovšek, Tatjana Marvin, Andrej Stopar

This volume of Linguistica is dedicated to the research in the field of generative linguistics. It contains a careful selection of academic articles which focus on contemporary developments in the generative approach to linguistic description. Parts of th... see more

Olga Borik

In this paper, I discuss the distribution of bare singular indefinite nominals in Russian. I argue that these nominal phrases are full-fledged indefinites and can have both specific and non-specific indefinite interpretations. However, their appearance in... see more

Željko Boškovic

An appealing property of the phase theory is that it is relevant to many phenomena, i.e. many domain-based mechanisms are stated in terms of phases. However, although phasal complements have no theoretical status in the phase theory (only phases do), they... see more

Daniel Büring

Discontinuous foci – cases in which the focus as expected by semantic or pragmatic considerations is not a single constituent within the phrase marker – are not commonly discussed in the formal literature on focussing. This paper proposes to use Unalterna... see more

Guglielmo Cinque

An influential conjecture concerning parameters is that they can possibly be “restricted to formal features of functional categories” (Chomsky 1995: 6). In Rizzi (2009, 2011) such features are understood as instructions triggering one of the following syn... see more

Mojmír Docekal, Jakub Dotlacil

Most research studying neg-raising focuses on English. Two notable exceptions are Boškovic & Gajewski (2009) and Docekal (2014) who discuss neg-raising in Slavic. In contrast to Boškovic & Gajewski (2009), Docekal (2014) argues that predicates of intentio... see more

Judit Farkas, Gábor Alberti

The paper gives a thorough insight into the system of possible forms of (in)alienably possessed nouns in Hungarian. Its point of departure is the group of [Nominative + -j- +A] possessive forms the stem of which has an alternative (morphologically “shorte... see more

Hana Gruet-Skrabalova

This paper deals with answers to negative yes-no questions, focusing on data from Czech. It is shown that answering particles can express both positive and negative answers to negative questions, but that their choice is not free. Several pieces of eviden... see more

Negin Ilkhanipour

It is well discussed in the literature that epistemic modals (Mod epis) are base-generated higher than Tense (T), while non-epistemic/root modals (Mod root) are base-generated lower than T, and that high modals are evaluated in the context of the speech e... see more

Judit Kleiber, Gábor Alberti, Veronika Szabó

The paper investigates Hungarian imperative sentence types from a pragmaticosemantic point of view. In addition to the baseline imperative, it analyzes types with non-standard intonation pattern and/or discourse markers. We apply the (S)DRT-based discours... see more

Nedžad Leko, Nermina Cordalija, Ivana Jovovic, Nevenka Marijanovic, Lidija Perkovic, Dženana Telalagic, Amra Bešic, Midhat Šaljic

In this paper, we demonstrate that Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), like Slovenian, has three distinct strategies of subject-predicate agreement when the subject consists of conjoined noun phrases: 1. agreement with the maximal projection – a Boolean Phras... see more

Marijana Marelj

This paper deals with morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of the so-called Cognate Object Construction with particular reference to Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. The relevance of an examination of such morphologically robust languages ... see more

Nicola Munaro

This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of embedd... see more

Matic Pavlic

In both sign and spoken languages, locative relations tend to be encoded within constructions that display the non-basic word/sign order. In addition, in such an environment, sign languages habitually use a distinct predicate type – a classifier predicate... see more

Péter Rebrus, Miklós Törkenczy

This paper argues that neutrality in a harmony system is a gradient property since it is due to a vowel’s participation in different patterns that are considered to be indicators of neutral behaviour in harmony. We examine three of these patterns of neutr... see more

Artur Stepanov, Manca Mušic, Penka Stateva

In this work, we aim to clarify the empirical paradigm that bears on two aspects of syntactic locality in Slovenian. First, building on previous work, we investigate how robustly Slovenian observes the syntactic locality constraint precluding constituent ... see more

Ildikó Emese Szabó

This paper examined the topic of Low Vowel Lengthening in Hungarian, which is a term describing the short-long alternation that low vowels show. After an introduction of the vowel system and phonotactics of the language, two main criteria were identified ... see more

Eniko Tóth, Péter Csatár

This paper presents the results of an experiment regarding the use of Hungarian indexical demonstratives where it is shown that the use of indexicals depends on the nature of the context. More specifically, the use of indexical demonstratives is explored ... see more

Lucas Tual

In this paper, I analysed the interaction between the French adjective “gros” and -eur deverbal nouns. This adjective gives rise to a preferred non-intersective reading when it is in a prenominal position, but only an intersective reading when it appears ... see more

Mary Ann Walter

In this study I explore the phonological behavior of the hypocoristic suffix /-o?/-/i?/ in Turkish. Such a suffix is common to many of the Balkan languages. Turkish differs in its introduction of the front vowel variant of the suffix, presumably to satisf... see more

Jacek Witkos, Dominika Dziubala-Szrejbrowska

The aim of this article is to briefly analyze the agreement patterns in Polish constructions with quantified subjects and adjectival predicates/participles, and propose an account built on the nanosyntactic ideas regarding the nature of case, i.e., split ... see more

Sarah Zobel, Eva Csipak

We discuss the semantic contribution and distribution of conditional antecedents containing the discourse particle denn (“antecedents with denn”, abbreviated as AWD). We propose that AWDs occur only in contexts where (i) the speaker does not believe the a... see more

Sarah Zobel

This paper addresses the question whether impersonal pronouns should be analyzed as indefinite or definite expressions based on their discourse anaphoric potential. I present new data that support the claim that impersonal pronouns should be analyzed as n... see more