dc.contributor.author | Nesset, Tore | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-08T08:51:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-08T08:51:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-08-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article investigates the diachronic development of Russian numeral constructions consisting of a paucal numeral (<i>dva</i> “two”, <i>tri</i> “three”, <i>četyre</i> “four”) followed by an adjective and a noun. Based on statistical analysis of more than 6,000 corpus examples, it is shown that a split took place in the second half of the twentieth century when feminine nouns developed a dif- ferent agreement pattern from that of masculine and neuter nouns. This split is argued to represent the final step in a long “birth process” of gender- specific paucal constructions that started with the loss of the dual in the Middle Ages. It is suggested that we are witnessing a cascading effect, whereby the feminine pattern develops when the pattern for masculine and neuter nouns is approaching stabilization. The article furthermore includes a discussion of the hypothesis that “S-curves” represent a template for lan- guage change. While the documented changes resemble S-curves, the pro- posed analysis also addresses some general problems with testing the S- curve hypothesis empirically. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Nesset t. A long birth: The development of gender-specific paucal constructions in Russian
. Diachronica. 2020;37(4):514-539 | |
dc.identifier.cristinID | FRIDAID 1866757 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.18057.nes | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0176-4225 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1569-9714 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20212 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | John Benjamins Publishing | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Diachronica | |
dc.relation.uri | TROLLING | |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2020 The Author(s) | en_US |
dc.subject | VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Russisk språk: 028 | en_US |
dc.subject | VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028 | en_US |
dc.subject | Paucal / Paukal | en_US |
dc.subject | Russisk / Russian | en_US |
dc.subject | S curve / S-kurve | en_US |
dc.subject | Tallord / Numeral | en_US |
dc.title | A long birth: The development of gender-specific paucal constructions in Russian | en_US |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Tidsskriftartikkel | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |