Argument Case Leveling toward Genitive: An Unexpected Outcome in a Language Contact Situation

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI:10.1163/19552629-bja10081
Nerea Madariaga, Olga Romanova
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This article contributes to the study of a productive morphosyntactic mechanism in a peculiar type of linguistic variety, the Russian language of Odessa (OdR). This variety was born as a lingua franca in the city of Odessa soon after its foundation, implying the massive acquisition of the Russian language in a nonnative way in its initial stages. Afterwards, it was transmitted to successive generations as a native variety, albeit preserving some of the initial traits. One of the most characteristic traits of OdR is the leveling of argument marking not in favor of accusative/nominative cases, as expected, but in favor of genitive marking. The use of genitive case, i.e., differential genitive case marking on subjects and objects instead of nominative/accusative, is partially present in most Slavic languages. However, in OdR, genitive case spread massively to a wide range of new syntactic positions. We show that the reason for this extension lay in (i) the confluence of different languages and dialects, which involved incomplete acquisition by many inhabitants of the city and notably Yiddish speakers, and (ii) the transmission of innovative traits through bilingual speakers, who followed specific language-internal rules operating also in Child Russian.

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本文有助于研究一种特殊语言变体--敖德萨俄语(OdR)--中的生产形态句法机制。这种语言在敖德萨市成立后不久就作为一种通用语言诞生了,这意味着在其最初阶段,人们以非母语的方式大量学习俄语。之后,尽管保留了最初的一些特征,但它作为一种本地语言代代相传。俄语最有特色的特征之一是论点标记的平级化,不是像预期的那样倾向于指称/主格,而是倾向于属格标记。属格的使用,即主语和宾语的属格标记不同于名词性/指称性,部分存在于大多数斯拉夫语中。然而,在 OdR 中,属格大规模地扩展到一系列新的句法位置。我们的研究表明,这种扩展的原因在于:(i) 不同语言和方言的交汇,城市中的许多居民,特别是讲意第绪语的人,并没有完全掌握这些语言和方言;(ii) 创新特征通过讲双语的人传播,他们遵循特定的语言内部规则,这些规则在童谣俄语中也同样起作用。
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Journal of Language Contact
Journal of Language Contact LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Language Contact (JLC) is a peer-reviewed open access journal. It focuses on the study of language contact, language use and language change in accordance with a view of language contact whereby both empirical data (the precise description of languages and how they are used) and the resulting theoretical elaborations (hence the statement and analysis of new problems) become the primary engines for advancing our understanding of the nature of language. This involves linguistic, anthropological, historical, and cognitive factors. Such an approach makes a major new contribution to understanding language change at a time when there is a notable increase of interest and activity in this field. The Journal of Language Contact accepts articles in English and French.
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