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Temporal expression in nominals: tripartite deictics in the Bulgarian Rhodope dialects

by Davide Fanciullo (Author)
©2019 Thesis 208 Pages

Summary

The volume presents the analysis of the tripartite deictics in the Bulgarian Rhodope dialect (Slavic), namely the use of the three definite forms -s, -t and -n with nominals. The author explores the domain of temporal value in the nominal structure in other languages, mostly non-Indo European, in order to comprehend the relation between speaker, addressee, temporal interpretation and consequences on morphosyntax. He demonstrates that the choice of temporality and semantic values of the deictics in the Rhodope dialect is based on cognitive and contextual factors. Data, including first-hand, are supported by qualitative and quantitative analysis. The aim of this research is to contribute to the theory building process of the temporal expression in nominals, which may be useful in typological perspective.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • Citability of the eBook
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Glosses
  • Note about glosses, examples and translations
  • Localities (Bulgaria)
  • Interviewers
  • List of maps
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. Temporal interpretation and time reference
  • 1.1 Tense in Nominals. Introduction
  • 1.2 Interaction between nominal tense and verbal tense
  • 2. Definiteness in Bulgarian standard language and dialects
  • 2.1 Tripartite definite articles in Bulgarian dialects
  • 2.2 Tripartite definite articles in the Central Rhodope dialect
  • 2.3 Spatial distance
  • 2.4 Tripartite determination in Balkan Slavic
  • 2.4.1 Deixis and determination in Pomak (Greece): an overview
  • 2.4.2 Sit2 = Sit0, spatial uses
  • 2.4.3 Sit2 ≠ Sit0, temporal uses
  • 2.4.4 Evidentiality: interaction between the noun phrase and the verb phrase
  • 2.5 Origin of evidential semantics: diachronic perspective
  • 2.6 Other temporal uses of deictics in the noun phrase
  • 3. Research methods and tools
  • 3.1 Bulgarian dialects classification
  • 3.2 Corpus I: first-hand data
  • 3.3 Corpus II: ‘Bulgarian dialectology as Living Tradition’ project
  • 3.4 Corpus III: digital archive of documents about the Rhodope region
  • 4. Corpora analysis: deictic functions in the Rhodope dialects
  • 4.1 Quantitative data analysis
  • 4.2 Identifying a hierarchical model of deictic functions
  • 4.3 Word classes and deictic spatio-temporal markers on nouns
  • 4.3.1 Food artifacts
  • 4.3.2 Human beings and kinship
  • 4.3.3 Geographical names and places
  • 4.3.4 Animals and objects
  • 4.4 Spatial uses as a basic value
  • 4.4.1 Movement from/to place. Distance in location
  • 4.4.2 Prepositions of place
  • 4.5 The possessive meaning in the deictic markers
  • 5. Interaction between nominal tense and verbal tense in the Rhodope dialect
  • 5.1 Present tense and the -s deictic
  • 5.2 Praesens historicum and temporal markers in the nominal phrase
  • 5.3 Resultative perfect in combination with the deictic forms
  • 5.4 Past in nominals and temporal markedness on nouns
  • 5.5 The habitual meaning and the -n deictic
  • 5.6 Expressing evidentiality in nominals59
  • 5.7 Temporal subordinators in combination with deictic forms
  • 5.8 Future and deictic markers
  • 5.9 Summary of temporal markers in the noun phrase
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Appendices
  • Corpus I
  • Corpus II
  • Corpus III–Note on Bulgarian phonetic transcription of dialects
  • (I) Popkonstantinov 1889, about tripartite definite forms in Petkovo.
  • (II) Šiškov 1907, about tripartite pronouns in Ahăčelebijski pomak.
  • (III) Transcription of dialectological material by Kanevska-Nikolova, 2006, extract from the village Momčilovci (Kanevska-Nikolova 2006: 234).
  • (IV) Transcription of dialectological material from Rhodope dialect by Ljubomir Miletič, 1912: 155 and translated edition 2013: 173.
  • (V) Notes by Stojko Stojkov about object doubling in Bulgarian dialects (Stojkov 1962: 261)

List of abbreviations

Glosses

The glosses are inspired, but they do not perfectly match, from the Leipzig Glossing Rules of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Linguistics. I took the liberty to change some of them to fit better with the aim of this work.

1

first person

2

second person

3

third person

A

addressee’s sphere

ACC

accusative

ADJ

adjective

ADV

adverb(ial)

AFF

affix

ANIM

animate

AOR

aorist

AUX

auxiliary

CL

clitic

D

distal

DAT

dative

DEF

definite

DEM

demonstrative

DET

determiner

DIST

distal

DO

direct object

DU

dual

EVID

evidential

F

feminine

FUT

future

GEN

genitive

HAB

habitual

IMP

imperative

IMPF

imperfect

IND

indicative

INDF

indefinite

INF

infinitive

INSTR

instrumental

IPVF

imperfective

IRR

irrealis

M

masculine

N

neuter

N-

non- (e.g. non-feminine)

NEG

negative

NMZR

nominalizer

OBJ

object

POSS

possessive

PFV

perfective

PL

plural

PRF

perfect

PRON (PR)

pronoun

PRS

present

PST

past

PTCP

participle

REFL

reflexive

REL

relative

REM.P.REP

remote past reported

S

speaker’s sphere

SBJ

subject

SG

singular

TOP.NON.A/S

topical nonsubject

VOC

vocative

←9 | 10→

Note about glosses, examples and translations

– morpheme boundary

-s suffix

-s- infix

s- prefix

-ø zero marker or zero morpheme (e.g. zero article)

AOR.3SG the dot separates two (or more) grammatical categories on the same morpheme or root

[…] the utterance continues or is an excerpt of a longer context

deteno, deteno–the comma stays for a short pause

deteno. deteno–the dot stays for a long pause

*the asterisk indicates ungrammaticality

‘inverted commas’ are used for translations

“double quotes” are used for direct speech

Localities (Bulgaria)

Arda

Ar

Čokmanovo

Čo

Gela

Ge

Gorna Arda

GAr

Gozdevica

Goz

Gradăt

Gr

Koren

Kor

Košnica

Ko

Krivo Pole

KrPo

Leštak

Le

Malevo (Haskovo)

MaHa

Mandra

Man

Mogilica

Mo

Momčilovci

Mom

Oryahovec

Or

Sărnica

Săr

Stikăl

St

Sveta Petka

SvPe

Šumnatica

Šu

Tihomir

Ti

Tikale

Tik

Vărbina

Văr

←10 | 11→

Interviewers

DF

Davide Fanciullo

EA

Evangelia Adamou

EKN

Elena Kanevska-Nikolova

GK

Georgi Kolev

KP

Kamen Petrov

MM

Maksim Mladenov

Petăr Šiškov

RA

Ronelle Alexander

Vladimir Žobov

←11 | 12→←12 | 13→

Details

Pages
208
Year
2019
ISBN (PDF)
9783631790571
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631790588
ISBN (MOBI)
9783631790595
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631781760
DOI
10.3726/b15767
Language
English
Publication date
2019 (June)
Keywords
Deixis Definite articles Tensed nominals Definiteness Corpus linguistics Balkan Slavic
Published
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2019. 206 pp., 9 fig. b/w, 9 tables, 8 maps

Biographical notes

Davide Fanciullo (Author)

Davide Fanciullo obtained a PhD in Linguistic history of Eurasia at the University of Macerata. He specialised in Bulgarian Philology at the University of Sofia Sv. Kliment Ohridski. His research interests include morphology, evidentiality, dialectology and Slavic linguistic minorities. He is also translator of Macedonian novels.

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