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Volume 68: Issue 4
Modeling declensions without declension features. The case of Russian
Author: Pavel Cahahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1428-80521
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  • 1 Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic
Pages:
385–425
Online Publication Date:
03 Jun 2021
Publication Date:
06 Dec 2021
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2021.00433
Keywords:
Nanosyntax; declension; Russian; morphology; syntax
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Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the Russian declension in Nanosyntax (Starke 2009, 2018). The analysis has two theoretically important aspects. First, it makes no reference to language-particular declension features. This allows one to maintain the idea that morphosyntactic features are drawn from a set provided by the UG, i.e., language invariant. The analysis also does not use contextual rules. In order to correctly pair the right ending with a particular root, the analysis only relies on specifying each marker for the features it spells out. The correct pairing of roots and affixes falls out from such a specification and the Nanosyntax model of spellout.

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