Formal Description of Slavic Languages: The Ninth Conference: Proceedings of FDSL 9, Göttingen 2011

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Table of Contents

From the Editors....................................................................................................7

Joanna Błaszczak & Dorota Klimek-Jankowska
Futures, Futurates, Plans and Forces.....................................................................9

Anna Bondaruk
Interplay of Feature Inheritance and Information Structure in Polish
Inverse Copular Sentences..................................................................................37

Durdica Zeljka Caruso
In Support of a DP-Analysis of Nominal Phrases in Croatian: A Split
DP-Analysis of Croatian Nouns..........................................................................65

Mojmír Dočekal
What Do We Count With Numerals? Semantic Analysis of Czech Kind-
denoting and Group-denoting NPs......................................................................87

Jakub Dotlačil & Radek Šimík
Peeling, Structural Case, and Czech Retroactive Infinitives............................105

Ljudmila Geist
Bulgarian edin: The Rise of an Indefinite Article.............................................125

Tatjana Marvin & Adrian Stegovec
A Note on Slovenian Ditransitives....................................................................149

Natalia Mitrofanova & Serge Minor
The Syntax and Semantics of Directional Axial Expressions in Russian.........171
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Olav Mueller-Reichau
Why kratnost’? On Russian Factual Imperfectives..........................................191

Hagen Pitsch
Verb Stems in Russian and BYT’.....................................................................211

Stanimir Rakić
Trochaic Lengthening in Neoštokavian............................................................237

Hana Strachoňová
Semantic Compatibility of Two Czech Temporal Adjuncts.............................259

Luka Szucsich
Free Riders and the Activation of Inactive Features: The Case of
NP Adverbials...................................................................................................275

Barbara Tomaszewicz
AŜ/čak – the Scalar Opposite of Scalar only......................................................301

Helen Trugman
Naturally-atomic Singular NA Kinds in Russian as Lexically Derived...........325

Jacek Witkoś
Minimality in Polish Control: Late Merge and Smuggling..............................349
From the Editors

This volume contains contributions to the 9th European Conference on Formal
Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 9), which took place at the University
of Göttingen from December 7 to December 9, 2011.1

Our student assistants Alexander Böhnisch, Genia Böhnisch, Dominic
Engler and Ulrike Gebühr generously offered practical support during the
conference. We would like to thank them for their time and energy.

The conference abstracts and the full papers submitted to the proceedings
were each anonymously reviewed by two external volunteers. We would like to
thank the abstract reviewers for their detailed, helpful comments and the
reviewers of the full papers for their thorough and knowledgeable critique:
Klaus Abels, Loren Billings, Petr Biskup, Joanna Błaszczak, Olga Borik, Željko
Bošković, Pavel Caha, BoŜena Cetnarowska, Barbara Citko, Damir Ćavar, Jan
Fellerer, Natalia Fitzgibbons, Steve Franks, Natalia Gagarina, Ljudmila Geist,
Vera Gribanova, Stephanie Harves, Fabian Heck, Anna Kibort, Iliyana Krapova,
James Lavine, Lanko Marušič, Lucie Medová, Roland Meyer, Krzysztof
Migdalski, Olav Mueller-Reichau, Vladimír Petkevič, Chris Piñón, Ljiljana
Progovac, Adam Przepiórkowski, María Luisa Rivero, Tobias Scheer, Maaike
Schoorlemmer, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Sandra Stjepanović, Luka Szucsich,
Radek Šimík, Jochen Trommer, Helen Trugman, Lída Veselovská, Jacek
Witkoś, Ilse Zimmermann, Larisa Zlatić, and Rok Žaucer. We very much
appreciate the effort that they made in the interest of a successful conference and
valuable proceedings.

Thanks are also due to all contributors to the proceedings for their work and
their keeping the deadlines.

We would like to express our gratitude to Tobias Scheer for help with proof-
reading, and Kristina Krchňavá for help with final edits. Last but not least, the
present volume would not have been possible without the help of our technical
assistants, Genia Böhnisch and Dominic Engler. Thanks for their patience and
commitment.

Only a selection of the submitted papers could make it into this volume.
Nevertheless, the volume offers a wide spectrum of issues in Slavic linguistics
including lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics, information structure, and

1 http://www.uni-goettingen.de/fdsl-9
8 From the Editors
phonology, and covers a range of Slavic languages – Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian,
Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Russian, and Slovenian.

The FDSL conference series was called into being in 1995. The biannual
conference had been hosted in turn by the University of Leipzig and the
University of Potsdam. In 2011, the Slavic Department of the University of
Göttingen hosted the conference for the first time. In alternation with the regular
conference, ‘half-time’ conferences were held in Nova Gorica (2006 – FDSL
6.5), Moscow (2008 – FDSL 7.5), and Brno (2010 – FDSL 8.5). The tenth
FDSL conference will be held at the University of Leipzig in 2013.

It is our sad duty to report that Helen Trugman, one of the contributors,
passed away due to illness on September 13, 2012. We will always remember
her as an excellent linguist and a good friend. We gratefully acknowledge the
help of Susan Rothstein who personally saw to it that the final version of the
paper was as intended by Helen.

The Editors
November, 2012
Futures, Futurates, Plans and Forces*
Joanna Błaszczak & Dorota Klimek-Jankowska
University of Wrocław
Abstract
In this paper we account for some novel contrasts in the distribution of futurate, simple and
periphrastic future forms in Polish. We work out the formal semantics of these forms using a
force-theoretic framework recently proposed by Copley (2012) and Copley & Harley (2011).
More precisely, we explain how the semantics of these forms constrains their distribution
depending on the availability of a plan in the context of use.

1 The issue
Polish uses two types of constructions to express a future time reference: i) a
“simple future” (= SF) (see (1)) and ii) a “periphrastic future” (= PF) (see (2)).

(1) Ajax zagra z FC Porto. SF
Ajax play.prs.perf.3sg with FC Porto
‘Ajax will play with FC Porto.’
(it cannot mean: ‘Ajax is playing with FC Porto.’)

(2) Ajax będzie grał / grać z FC Porto. PF
Ajax be.aux.3sg play.prt.impf.sg.m play.inf.impf with FC Porto
‘Ajax will be playing with FC Porto.’
(it cannot mean: ‘Ajax is playing with FC Porto.’)

SF is a present tense form of a perfective lexical verb. If one looks closer at
the morphological composition of SF, it will become clear that it does not
contain any morpheme which could be taken to correspond to “future tense”
sensu stricto. In fact, the morphological make-up of SF is identical to that of a
present tense form in Polish except for the presence of a “perfectivizing” prefix
in SF.1 The fact that in SF we have perfective aspect and present tense will be –

* This research has been supported by a Focus grant received from the Foundation for
Polish Science.
1 Compare the following present tense and simple future forms of ‘write’:
(a) present tense (b) simple future
ja piszę ja napiszę
1.sg 1.sg
ty piszesz ty napiszesz
2.sg 2.sg
on pisze on napisze
3.sg 3.sg
my piszemy my napiszemy
1.pl 1.pl
wy piszecie wy napiszecie
2.pl 2.pl
oni piszą oni napiszą
3.pl 3.pl