Pluralia tantum nouns in the Slavonic languages
Pluralia tantum nouns in the Slavonic languages
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斯拉夫语言中的复数 tantum 名词
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2018
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G. Corbett
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Imenice pluralia tantum su fascinantna pojava, za koju se slavisti interesuju jos od Braunove
teze (1930), pa i ranije. Za to postoji nekoliko razloga. Prvo, mnoge od ovih imenica su
defektne jer, iako su brojive, nemaju jedninu. Drugo, dok defektne imenice obicno ukljucuju
sporadicne praznine u promeni (kao sto je to, po jezickom osecanju mnogih govornika, slucaj
sa genitivom množine ruske imenice *mect), klase imenica pluralia tantum cesto su – bar
delimicno – semanticki predvidljive (tj. ove imenice su podložne „uopstavanjima srednje
velicine”, Koenig 1999). Međutim, ova predvidljivost je ogranicena: up. u ruskom imenicu
binokl ‘dvogled’, koja ima standardnu promenu, sa imenicom sani ‘sanke’, koja je imenica
plurale tantum. Trece, da bi se mogle upotrebiti kao brojive, imenice pluralia tantum cesto
zahtevaju neko dodatno sredstvo, npr. zbirne brojeve. I u opstoj lingvistici postoji stalno
interesovanje za ove imenice (npr. Visnievski 2009). Zato je glavni cilj ovog referata da pokaže
poseban znacaj podataka iz slovenskih jezika za opstelingvisticko ispitivanje imenica pluralia
tantum. Taj znacaj je dvostruk. Prvo, kod nekih klasa ovih imenica se uocavaju zanimljive
razlike u razlicitim slovenskim jezicima. I drugo, treba preispitati tvrdnju da je, iz semantickih
razloga, prirodno da se predmeti koji se javljaju u paru oznacavaju imenicama pluralia tantum,
s obzirom da se ovakvi predmeti oznacavaju imenicama pluralia tantum i u jezicima koji imaju
dual (kao u slovenackom i gornjem i donjem lužickom). Uz to, u ovim jezicima se imenice
pluralia tantum mogu koristiti za jedan, dva ili vise od dva referenta (kao u donjem lužickom,
Janas 1976/1984). Dakle, ove imenice zaslužuju nasu stalnu pažnju bilo da je rec o
razumevanju broja u slovenskim jezicima ili o opstelingvistickim aspektima imenica pluralia
tantum. = = = Pluralia tantum nouns are indeed fascinating, and Slavists’ interest in them goes back to
Braun’s thesis (1930) and earlier. There are several reasons for this. First, many of these nouns
are defective, since they are countable yet they lack a singular. Second, while defectives
typically involve sporadic gaps (as with Russian genitive plural *mect for many speakers), sets
of pluralia tantum nouns are often semantically predictable, at least in part (they are subject to
‘middle-size generalizations’, Koenig 1999). This predictability is limited, however: compare Russian binokl ‘binoculars’ (which is a normal noun) with sani ‘sleigh’ a plurale tantum noun.
Third they often require some sort of repair (such as the use of collective numerals) so that they
can be treated as count nouns. Pluralia tantum nouns are of continued interest in the general
linguistic literature (see, for instance, Wisniewski 2009), hence it is timely to consider the
particular interest and contribution of the Slavonic data, the focus of this paper. Two aspects
stand out. First the Slavonic languages provide semantic classes of these nouns, which vary
across the family in interesting ways. And second, the claim for the semantic naturalness of
paired objects being pluralia tantum needs reassessing, given that these nouns are pluralia
tantum even when the dual is available (as in Slovene and Upper and Lower Sorbian. Moreover,
in these languages pluralia tantum nouns can be used for one, two, or more than two referents
(as in Lower Sorbian, Janas 1976/1984). Thus these nouns deserve our continued attention,
both for Slavonic internal and for general linguistic reasons.