Russian genitive plurals are impostors

John F. Bailyn; Andrew Nevins

doi:10.1093/oso/9780199219254.003.0008

Russian genitive plurals are impostors

John F. Bailyn
, Andrew Nevins

Linguistics

Harvard University

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Abstract

Our primary focus in this chapter is on the distribution of allomorphs for the Russian genitive plural. The Russian genitive plural has been a topic of interest to morphological theory because various authors have claimed that its derivation involves some or all of the following grammatical principles: (8.1) a. Inflectional paradigms aspire to “avoid homophony”. The Russian nominative singular and genitive plural endings reflect a transderivational attempt to minimize homophony across inflectional endings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Inflectional Identity
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	237-270
Number of pages	34
ISBN (Electronic)	9781383035902
ISBN (Print)	9780199219254
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199219254.003.0008
State	Published - Jan 1 2023

Keywords

Allomorphs
derivation
genitive
grammatical
morphological

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