Microvariation in pronominal and verbal enclitics in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. Empirical studies on spoken language, including dialects and heritage languages
Final Report Abstract
The publications offer an empirical in-depth study on the use of the pronominal and auxiliary clitics in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. Its focus is on microvariation between the standard varieties and in varieties which are not under the direct influence of prescriptive corpus planning. The project is unique as it puts descriptive work of Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian scholars on the same footing with general linguistic studies with a theoretical orientation. We detected the following parameters of variation: i) Inventory, ii) Internal organisation of the clitic cluster and morphonological processes and iii) Position of clitics and clitic clusters. A special focus is on the systematic analysis of the structural conditions of clitic climbing understood as a phenomenon whereby a clitic is not realised in a position contiguous to the elements of the embedding to which it belongs, but in a position contiguous to elements of the matrix. Additionally, our monograph offers new insights in the following areas of syntactic research: complex sentences, islands, repeated morph constraint, and linguistic complexity. We propose two new concepts for studies on clitics in Slavonic: ‘diaclisis’ and ‘tied islands’. The monograph will be interesting reading for scholars working on syntactic variation who strive for empirical methods taking frequencies and correlations of factors into account. The book shows how corpus driven studies can feed into cutting edge psycholinguistic tests and might, thus, contribute to the current debate on the triangulation of empirical methods. As all examples are glossed according to Leipzig Glossing Rules, the book does not presuppose any knowledge of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.
Publications
- (2019) Clitic Climbing, the Raising-Control Dichotomy and Diaphasic Variation in Croatian. Raspr. Inst. hrvat. jez. jezikosl. (Online) (Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje) 45 (2) 505–522
Kolaković, Zrinka; Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Edyta; Hansen, Björn
(See online at https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.45.2.13) - (2017): Clitic climbing, finiteness and the raising-control distinction. A corpus-based study. In: Jazykovedný časopis 68:(2), S. 179-190
Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Edyta / Hansen, Björn / Kolaković, Zrinka
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0028) - (2017): Web Corpora – the best possible solution for tracking rare phenomena in underresourced languages: clitics in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. In: Bański, Piotr et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora and Big Data and Natural Language Processing (CMLC-5+BigNLP) 2017 including the papers from the Web-as-Corpus (WAC-XI) guest section. Mannheim: Institut für Deutsche Sprache, S. 49-55
Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Edyta / Kolaković, Zrinka /Hansen, Björn
- (2018): Clitic climbing and stacked infinitives in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian – A corpus-driven study. In: Fuß, Eric et al. (eds.) Grammar and Corpora 2016. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), S. 259-268
Hansen, Björn / Kolaković, Zrinka / Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Edyta
- Clitics in the wild : empirical studies on the microvariation of the pronominal, reflexive and verbal clitics in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian of the Pronominal, Reflexive and Auxiliary CLs in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (Series Open Slavic Linguistics). Ber
Kolaković, Zrinka / Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Edyta / Hansen, Björn / Filipović-Đurđević, Dušica / Dimitrijević, Nataša
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5792972)
