Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics

In this paper, I present a unified account for the change in referential null subjects and accusative clitics in Russian. Clitics and null subjects are minimal defective pronouns. In Old Russian, long verb movement was the key for licensing these elements. The reorganization of the verbal system aro...

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Autor: Madariaga Pisano, Nerea
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
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null subjects
diachronic change
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spelling Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object cliticsMadariaga Pisano, Nereaobject cliticsnull subjectsdiachronic changeIn this paper, I present a unified account for the change in referential null subjects and accusative clitics in Russian. Clitics and null subjects are minimal defective pronouns. In Old Russian, long verb movement was the key for licensing these elements. The reorganization of the verbal system around aspectual distinctions by Middle Russian and the consequent loss of long verb movement modified this cue; null subjects became overtly realized, while object clitics disappeared altogether, and were replaced by null objects, free from any requirement of prosodic support. As for null subjects, learners were able to reanalyse the corresponding gaps as either (i) bound by null topics, or (ii) c-commanded by coreferent antecedents (“finite control”). Thus, Modern Russian started to qualify as a partial null subject language.This research has been partially supported by the research project PID2021-124769NB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 / ERDF A Way of making Europe, and the research group IT1534-22, funded by the Basque Government.University of Nova Gorica202420242023info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/66460reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MCIN/PID2021-124769NB-I00/https://ojs.ung.si/index.php/JSL/article/view/168info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/(c) 2023 Nerea Madariaga.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/664602026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics
title Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics
spellingShingle Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics
Madariaga Pisano, Nerea
object clitics
null subjects
diachronic change
title_short Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics
title_full Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics
title_fullStr Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics
title_full_unstemmed Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics
title_sort Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Madariaga Pisano, Nerea
author Madariaga Pisano, Nerea
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv object clitics
null subjects
diachronic change
topic object clitics
null subjects
diachronic change
description In this paper, I present a unified account for the change in referential null subjects and accusative clitics in Russian. Clitics and null subjects are minimal defective pronouns. In Old Russian, long verb movement was the key for licensing these elements. The reorganization of the verbal system around aspectual distinctions by Middle Russian and the consequent loss of long verb movement modified this cue; null subjects became overtly realized, while object clitics disappeared altogether, and were replaced by null objects, free from any requirement of prosodic support. As for null subjects, learners were able to reanalyse the corresponding gaps as either (i) bound by null topics, or (ii) c-commanded by coreferent antecedents (“finite control”). Thus, Modern Russian started to qualify as a partial null subject language.
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