Přehled o publikaci
2025
Deadjectival Verbs in Slavic : The AAB Pattern and Its Implications
CAHA, PavelBasic information
Original name
Deadjectival Verbs in Slavic : The AAB Pattern and Its Implications
Authors
CAHA, Pavel
Edition
The 20th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, University of Verona, Italy, 10-12 September 2025, 2025
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Requested lectures
Country of publisher
Italy
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Organization
Filozofická fakulta – Repository – Repository
Keywords in English
semantic maps; deadjectival verbs; degree morphology; Nanosyntax
Links
CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008726, interní kód Repo. EH23_025/0008726, research and development project.
Changed: 20/9/2025 00:50, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík
Abstract
In the original language
This paper considers patterns of stem allomorphy in Slavic. Specifically, it focuses on adjectives whose positive stem includes the ‘augment’ k, such as the Czech slad‐k‐ý ‘sweet.’ When we look at the comparative or causatives of such adjectives, the stem marker ‐k is either present or absent in the relevant form. In Czech, it seems that whenever the marker is absent in the comparative, it is also absent in the verb and vice versa. Following Bobaljik (2012), these can be called an AAA pattern (all forms have the augment) or ABB pattern (only the positive has the augment), Contrasting with this, Bulgarian overwhelmingly shows the AAB pattern. The goal of this talk is to explore the issues that the newly discovered AAB patterns raise for the theoretical accounts of *ABA, focussing specifically on the question whether (and if so, then how) the difference between Czech and Bulgarian can be related to the fact that BG has prefixal/periphrastic comparative, while Czech has a synthetic/suffixal comparative.
