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Hyperspacing the Verb: The interplay between prosody, morphology and semantics in the Western South Slavic verbal domain
This is the Wiki page for the project Hyperspacing the Verb: The interplay between prosody, morphology and semantics in the Western South Slavic verbal domain,
a joint project of University of Graz and University of Nova Gorica. To read more about the project, click here .
Central questions
The purpose of this page is to explain the material, annotation and how to use the Database of the Western South Slavic Verb which consists out of Serbo-Croatian (SC) and Slovenian sub-bases. The page is not ment to be used just by linguists, but rather everybody interested in Western South Slavic verb and languages, but also just langauge in general. Keeping this in mind, we tried to make the texts here as theory neutral and general as possible. We invite those, who are interested in more detailed analyses of the material in the Database, to visit the Output sub-page. The page covers the following topics.
- Are the observed interdependencies (prosody-semantics-morphology) better analysed in a lexicalist (e.g. Optimal Paradigms, McCarthy 2005) or in a non-lexicalist approach (e.g. Distributed Morphology, Halle & Marantz 1993)?
- Is prosodic prominence of derivational affixes specified in the lexicon or structurally assigned?
- What is an adequate representation for verbal aspect?
- How do category-mixing morphological operations (forming participles, nominalisations) map on the continuum between prototypical inflection and derivation?
- How are loan verbs morphologically incorporated?
- Are homonymous affixes (WSS: -je, -en, -n, -l) better analysed as the same suffix and what are the theoretical consequences of this move?