LINGUIST List 17.2789

Wed Sep 27 2006

Sum: Predicate Case in Russian (development of)

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Message 1: Predicate Case in Russian (development of)
Date: 26-Sep-2006
From: Ora Matushansky <matushanuniv-paris8.fr>
Subject: Predicate Case in Russian (development of)


Query for this summary posted in LINGUIST Issue: 17.2199 Regarding Query: http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2199.html#1

I have recently posted a query asking for experts or sources on thehistorical development of Case assignment to predicates in Russian(LinguistList 17.2199). I am very grateful to the following people forresponding to my query with references and advice: Tilman Berger, Joseph FFoster, Pavel Grashchenkov, Keith Goeringer, Alexander Krasovitsky, NereaMadariaga, Kylie Richardson, and Robert A. Rothstein.

I am particularly thankful to Pavel Grashchenkov for tracking down andsending me some hard-to-find articles and to Nerea Madariaga for anextensive discussion of the relation between the instrumental case markingon Modern Russian predicates and the Case-agreement paradigm used in olderRussian.

References

[Author unspecified] ''Izmeneniia v sootnosheniiakh imenitel'nogo itvoritel'nogo predikativnogo'', in [Author unspecified] Izmeneniia vsisteme prostogo i oslozhnennogo predlozheniia v russkom literaturnomiazyke XIX veka ( part 3 of _Ocherki po istoricheskoi grammatike russkogoliteraturnogo iazyka XIX veka). Moscow, 1964, pp. 60-128

Benson, Morton 1954. The Development of Predicate Adjective usage inRussian Literary Prose from Pushkin on, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor,Michigan.

Bernshtejn, S.B. (edit.) 1958. Tvoritel'nyj padezh v slavjanskih jazykah.Moskva.

Cherepanova O.A., Kolesov V.V., Kanorulina L.V., Kalinovskaja V.I. Istorijarusskogo jazyka. Uchebnoe posobie dlja prakticheskih zanjatij.Sankt-Peterburg, 2003. (pp. 64-65)

Graudina L.K., V.A. Ickovič & L.P. Katlinskaja 1976. Grammatičeskajapravil´nost´ russkoj reči: opyt častotnogo slovarja-spravočnika, Moskva: Nauka

Gustavsson, Sven 1976. Predicative Adjectives with the Copula byt´ inModern Russian. Stockholm: Almqwist & Wiksell international.

Ivanov V.V. Istoricheskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka. Moskva,«Prosveščenie» 1990. (pp. 372-379)

Křížkova, Elena 1968. Predikativnaja funkcija prilagatel´nyx isuščestvitel´nyx i struktura predloženija, Československá Rusistika 13:210-219.

Lomtev T.P. 1941. Issledovanija v oblasti sintaksisa belorusskogo jazyka.Minsk.

Lomtev, T. P. (1954)_Iz istorii sintaksisa russkogo jazyka. Moscow.Available at http://danefae.schtuff.com/lomtev_djvu

Lomtev, T. P. (1956)_Ocherki po istoricheskomu sintaksisu russkogo iazyka.Moscow. Chapter 3 (''Differentsiatsiia dvukh form imeni sushchestvitel'nogov funktsii skazuemogo'') and 4 (''Differentsiatsiia trekh form imeniprilagatel'nogo v funktsii skazuemogo''). You might also be interested inchapter 6 (''Otmiranie upotrebleniia vtorykh kosvennykh padezhei irasprostranenie na ikh meste tvoritel'nogo predikativnogo'')

Madariaga, Nerea (in progress). New Case Relations in Old and Present-dayRussian (and the role of peripheral-core syntactic interactions in grammarchange). Ph.D. thesis, University of the Basque Country. Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Madariaga, Nerea (to appear). An economy approach to the triggering of theRussian Instrumental predicative case. In J. Salmons and S. Dubenion-Smith,eds., Historical Linguistics 2005. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Moser, Michael, Der prädikative Instrumental: aus der historischen Syntaxdes Nordostslavischen; von den Anfängen bis zur petrinischen Epoche.Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1994.

Mrazek, Roman 1964. Sintaksis russkogo tvoritel´nogo.Strukturno-sravnitel´noe issledovanie. Praha.

Nichols, Johanna (1973) The Balto-Slavic Predicate Instrumental: A Problemin Diachronic Syntax. Ph.D. dissertation, UC Berkeley.

Nichols, Johanna. Predicate Nominals: A Partial Surface Syntax of Russian*(UC Publications, Linguistics, Volume 97, 1981

Patokova, O. V. 1929. K istorii razvitija tvoritel´nogo predikativnogo vrusskom literaturnom jazyke. Slavia: Casopis pro Slovanskov Filologii.1929-30, volume 8, 1-37

Potebnia, Iz zapisok po russkoi grammatike_, I-II (Moscow, 1958) there isalso discussion of ''vtorye kosvennye padezhi'' (pp. 208-334) and of''tvoritel'nyi na meste vtorykh (soglasuemykh) padezhei'' (478-517).

Red, Ragnar 1966. Zwei Studien über den prädikativen Instrumental imRussischen, Oslo: Avhandlinger utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi iOslo, II. Hist.- Filos. Klasse. Ny Serie. No. 12.

There is also work on predicate nouns in Russian by Alexander Krasovitsky,Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett and Alison Long fromSurrey Morphology Group.

Additional references on the topic can be found in Nerea Madariaga’sdissertation (see reference above).

Hopefully, I will also have something to say on the topic soon. Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Morphology                             Syntax