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A morphomic account of a syncretism in Russian deverbal nominalizations

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Yearbook of Morphology 1996

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In this paper we examine the morphology of the Russian verb system.1/2 We propose that a curious morphological restriction on the formation of certain types of deverbal nominalization provides indirect, but compelling, evidence in favour of a realizational approach to Russian conjugation over a morpheme based approach of the kind prevalent in recent generative studies of Slavic. The basic idea is very simple: the generalization which we discuss can be easily handled in a realizational framework by means of a rule of referral. However, in a morpheme based model, it is impossible to state the facts without violating locality principles and the full generalization is impossible to state even if these principles are violated.

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  1. Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, C04 3SQ, Colchester, UK

    Louisa Sadler, Andrew Spencer & Marina Zaretskaya

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Sadler, L., Spencer, A., Zaretskaya, M. (1997). A morphomic account of a syncretism in Russian deverbal nominalizations. In: Booij, G., van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1996. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3718-0_11

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