This paper applies the framework of Natural Syntax to complex sentences in Slovenian, with the twin goals of introducing the framework to Slavicists and showing how it deals with Slavic language ...data. The framework of Natural Syntax as initiated by Janez Orešnik, in the tradition of (morphological) naturalness as established by Wolfgang Dressler and Willi Mayerthaler, is a developing deductive theory. The naturalness judgments are couched in naturalness scales, which follow from the basic parameters (or "axioms") listed at the beginning of the paper. The predictions of the theory are calculated in what are known as deductions, the chief components of each being a pair of naturalness scales and the rules governing the alignment of corresponding naturalness values. Parallel and chiastic alignment are distinguished and related to Henning Andersen's early work on markedness.
Natural Syntax: Three-value Naturalness Scales Oresnik, Varja Cvetko; Oresnik, Janez
Slovenski jezik (Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti. Znanstvenoraziskovalni center),
01/2007, Letnik:
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Natural Syntax is a developing deductive theory, a branch of Naturlness Theory. the naturalness judgments are couched in naturalness scales, which follow from the basic parameters (or axioms) listed ...at the beginning of the paper. The predictions of the theory are calculated in the deductions, whose chief components are a pair of naturalness scales and the rules governing the alignment of corresponding naturalness values. Parallel and chiastic alignments are distinguished, in complementary distribution. Chiastic alignment is mandatory in deductions limited to unnatural environments. Naturalness scales are prevailingly two-value; for instance, >nat (+, -) / human. Some are three-value -- for instance (for Slovenian), >nat (singular, plural, dual) -- or even more complicated. This paper deals with three-value scales and features the following chief finding: the restriction of the environment of any deduction to the rightmost value or to the two rightmost values of a three-value naturalness scale requires chiastic alignment. This is exemplified with Slovenian, Russian and English material. References. Adapted from the source document
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