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Degree achievements from a Slavic perspective

Authors

DOČEKAL Mojmír VLÁŠKOVÁ Lucia ONOEVA Mariia

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2021
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://zenodo.org/records/10078020
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10078020
Keywords degree achievements; evaluativity; prefix; Russian; Slavic; experimental evidence
Description The evaluative behaviour of degree achievements (e.g., cool, widen, lengthen, dry) has been a puzzling problem for many linguists. The currently standard theory (Kennedy & Levin 2008) treats them as degree expressions based on different types of scales, which in turn influence the resulting evaluative or non-evaluative interpretation. While it may account for English, this theory faces empirical problems when confronted with cross-linguistic data. In this paper, we present an experiment on Russian exploring if verbal prefixes influence the (non-)evaluative interpretation of degree achievements. It follows from the results that prefixation is at least as important as the underlying scales for the cases we studied, which empirically challenges the scalar theory.
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