TY - JOUR AU - Bethin, Christina Y PY - 2022/12/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Prosody of Ø-Suffixed Deverbal Nouns in Ukrainian JF - Journal of Slavic Linguistics JA - JSL VL - 30 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ung.si/index.php/JSL/article/view/87 SP - 1-49 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>Ukrainian Ø-suffixed deverbal nouns such as <em>perépyt</em> ‘repeated inquiry’ are derived from perfective and/or imperfective verbs (&lt; <em>perepytáty</em><sub>PFV</sub> ‘to ask again, re-interrogate’, <em>perepýtuvaty</em><sub>IPFV</sub> ‘to ask repeatedly’). In some nouns, a complete match in segments and prosody between a base and the derivative is found in the infinitival stem of either or both aspects, as in <em>nadríz</em> ‘cut, incision’, <em>nadrízaty</em><sub>PFV</sub>, <em>nadrízuvaty</em><sub>IPFV</sub> ‘to make a slight cut’. For other nouns, a segmental match is found in the infinitival stem, but another verb form would be needed to provide the prosodic match, as in <em>rozrýv</em> ‘rupture, break’, <em>rozryváty</em><sub>IPFV</sub>, <em>rozirváty</em><sub>PFV</sub> ‘to tear, rend, break apart’, with a stress match only in <em>rozrývanyj</em><sub>PPP</sub>. But for many nouns with stress on the prefix, as in <em>perépyt</em>, there simply is no derivational base available for a prosodic match. The proposal is that stress on the prefix in deverbal nouns is a morphosemantic innovation in<br />Ukrainian motivated by <em>hypostasis</em>, i.e., the process of a noun becoming more concrete, designating a result or product of the action rather than nominalizing the action itself (Townsend 1980). The derivation of deverbal nouns can be seen as a stem-level process subject to a grammar with some version of Base-Derivative faithfulness (STRESS FAITH &gt;&gt; STRESS PREFIX). But in hypostatic masculine deverbal nouns, the prosodic adjustment takes place on words and here stress is (re)assigned to the prefix by STRESS PREFIX &gt;&gt; STRESS FAITH. Ukrainian thus presents a notable case of prosodically marked semantic change.</p></div></div></div> ER -