Topic
Third declension
About: Third declension is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 32 publications have been published within this topic receiving 217 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the morphosyntactic structure underlying the Russian adjectival declension and phonological rules that apply to it to derive the surface representations are presented, including adjectives and nouns employing the same theme suffixes (-oj- and -o-) and, importantly, that choice of theme suffix also determines choice of case exponents.
Abstract: In this article, we present the morphosyntactic structure underlying the Russian adjectival declension and the phonological rules that apply to it to derive the surface representations. We describe the two declension classes of Russian adjectives and argue that adjectives and nouns employ the same theme suffixes (-oj- and -o-) and, importantly, that choice of theme suffixalso determines choice of Case exponents. On this view, there is no special adjectival declension class; instead, Case exponents are shared between adjectives and nouns, and the choice of a "paradigm" is determined by the choice of the theme suffix. The article covers all adjectival inflections, including those of the possessives, demonstratives, interrogatives, and paucal numerals.
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TL;DR: Greek does not particularly help us; but the Latin parallels to Hittite seem to me not without pertinence, whether they represent a common inheritance or merely a similar development.
Abstract: genitives, 'yovwos (from *gonwos) and yoVVaTOS (from *gonwatos); but Attic has only yOVaTOS. In Latin, the u-stem genit (fourth declension) can shift not only to an o-stem (second declension), as ablative geno, but also to an s-stem (third declension) as accusative genus, genitive genoris (for examples see Neue-Wagener 1.530). Nominative genus, as in Lucilius 162 (Marx), is ambiguous, since it may represent a masculine u-stem (like Hittite genus) or a neuter s-stem (cf. the possible masculine s-stem Hittite genusi genusus); Nonius 207.28-30 (Mueller) takes it as the former, Neue-Wagener (loc. cit.) as the latter. Admittedly, Greek does not particularly help us; but the Latin parallels to Hittite seem to me not without pertinence, whether they represent a common inheritance or merely a similar development.
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1 Jan 1978
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1 Jan 1992
TL;DR: Arapesh as mentioned in this paper is a language of the Torricelli family, spoken near the north coast of Papua New Guinea, whose entire gender and declension system is organized along phonological lines.
Abstract: For some Latin nouns, gender is correlated with conceptual categories; for example, nouns denoting plants are routinely feminine. For others, gender is correlated with the phonology of the stem; thus, third declension nouns whose stems end in -c, -e, -l, -n, -t, -ar, -ur, -us and -uus are characteristically neuter, a fact that schoolchildren were long forced to memorize. This curious observation might seem to be just that, an accident, were it not for the existence of languages whose entire gender and declension systems are organized along phonological lines. This article is devoted to one of these languages, Arapesh, a language of the Torricelli family, spoken near the north coast of Papua New Guinea. My discussion of Arapesh is based entirely on Reo Fortune’s (1942) grammar.
36 citations
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2 Aug 2004
TL;DR: The first declension of nouns: 1st declension, 2nd declension and 3rd declension as discussed by the authors, and the formation of the genitive in Cyrillic cursive.
Abstract: Preface. Acknowledgements. I. The language and its dialects 1. Cultural, literary and linguistic background 2. Dialects II. Alphabet, pronunciation and stress 3. Alphabet 4. Pronunciation 5. Stress 6. Verbs 7. Nouns 8. Pronouns 9. adjectives 10. Adverbs 11. Prepositions 12. Conjunctions 13. Enclitics 14. Numerals 15. Quantifiers 16. Determiners 17. Particles, conjunctions and exclamations IV. Sentence elements and structure 18. A sentence 19. Sentence structure 20. word construction Appendixes. Cyrillic cursive. Formation of the genitive. Declensions of nouns: 1st declension. 2nd declension. 3rd declension. References
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