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- Title
ACCENT VARIATIONS IN BULGARIAN ZERO-DERIVED NOUNS.
- Authors
PATSEVA, Mirena
- Abstract
The paper focuses on the stress variations of prefi xes with the aim of outlining the fi lters they are sensitive to – prosodic, structural, and psycholinguistic. The main objective of the study is to analyze the accent variations in Bulgarian zero-derived prefi xed nouns within the Primary accent fi rst theory. After Revithiadou (1999) we assume that in lexical stress systems morphemes are accentually prespecified as marked and unmarked, which is not easy to trace among prefixes, and especially among the zero-derived ones. The corpus was a set of 232 nouns formed from verb roots, extracted from OPRBE (2012). The units in it have varying stress – on the prefi x or on the root. The analysis is based on the proposal of Caha & Zikova (2016) concerning the aspectual contribution of verbal prefi xes, which make verbs telic (adding a result state) and perfective (depicting the event as an entirety with a start and an end point), which do not always occur at the same time. The authors decompose the structure in order to identify the specific parts of the verb phrase influenced by the prefix. This allows them to define the specific meaning components assigned by the prefix. This approach aims to account for the difference between the unstressed verbal prefixes and their stressed allomorphs in the zero-derived nouns. The latter depict results or simple events. The diff erence was tested on data from Bulgarian by means of experts and internet examples of the compatibility with inchoative verbs and others denoting phases of the process. The result is that the nouns with accented prefi xes more often denote processes along with results and are compatible with inceptive verbs. This means that these items lack the perfectivity which is high in the functional projection. Apart from the morphosyntactic parameter, other factors are also discussed, such as an anti-homophony eff ect and relative frequency. The conclusion is that the domestic prefi xes are unmarked, adjoined outside the stress domain, but can receive stress under the infl uence of morphological, structural, metrical, and psycholinguistic factors.
- Subjects
VERB phrases; NOUNS; SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar); VERBS; PSEUDOMORPHS
- Publication
Linguistique Balkanique, 2022, Vol 61, Issue 2, p196
- ISSN
0324-1653
- Publication type
Article