#lcc10 Roman Tarasov (Роман Тарасов) - Reflection of (natural) language structures in different type

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My report is dedicated to the way some grammatical and lexical features are expressed in conlangs created with different aims and how the distribution of these features is connected with their two main characteristics: level of coverage and rate of grammaticalization. This is a meta-report based on the two projects I completed before with the support of the Language Creation Society.

The first project (Causative and Apparetive in Different Types of Constructed Languages: a Typological Approach), which received the LCC President’s Scholarship in 2021, was dedicated to the expression of three grammatical meanings — causative, tropative (‘to consider smth/smb to be smth/smb’) and apparetive (‘to seem to be smth/smb’) — in conlangs and carried out using two main methods: grammar descriptions analysis and the cross-sectional method, a short online-survey for advanced users of conlangs involving a translation of 6 sentences from English or Russian.

The second project (Towards a Typology of Single Negation and Negative Concord in Constructed Languages), which received the Scholarship in 2022, was dedicated to the participant negation in non-elliptic and elliptic contexts in conlangs and carried out using the same methods (cross-sectional method involved translating 3 sentences).

The results of the first project show that conlangs use quite a wide range of tropative and apparetive strategies. Languages with a common aim usually utilize similar strategies. However, the results of the ‘causative’ part are dramatically different: the majority of conlangs (within a sample) use the same model, which is quite close to the results of the second project. My hypothesis is that it is explained by the difference in levels of coverage and grammaticalization of these features.

References

J. Allen, J. Greenough. New Latin Grammar. Ginn & Company Publishers. Boston & London, 1903https://archive.org/details/allengreenoughsn00alleiala
R. Tarasov. Towards a Typology of Tropative. Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars. Saint-Petersburg, 2019, November 21-23. https://www.youngconfspb.com/application/files/2815/7532/4845/Tarasov-Towards_a_Typology_of_Tropative.pdf
R. Tarasov. Negative Concord Models in Slavonic Languages and Beyond from a Typological Perspective. Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars. Saint-Petersburg, 2020, November 19-21. https://www.youngconfspb.com/application/files/7516/0600/4338/Tarasov_Negative_Concord.pdf
R. Tarasov. Tropative, Causative and Apparetive in Different Types of Constructed Languages: a Typological Approach. Saint-Petersburg, 2021, November 25-27. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CMuDLSALVGApeR2fGDmGd0fBkB1IlpWvlzlqjOtbY4k/edit
R. Tarasov. Grammaticalization and Lexical Expression of Tropative from a Typological Perspective. Ahwaz Journal of Linguistics Studies. Vol. 2, No. 2.https://ajls.ir/en/archive-en/vol-2-no-2-click-here/grammaticalization-and-lexical-expression-of-tropative-from-a-typological-perspective
R. Tarasov. Негативное согласование в славянских языках в типологической перспективе (Negative Concord in Slavonic Languages from a Typological Perspective). BSU, Minsk, 2021. https://elib.bsu.by/handle/123456789/262136?locale=en
A. Orekhov, R. Tarasov. HSE Tropative Database: typological issues and programming decisions. Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 2021https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/HSE-Tropative-Database%3A-typological-issues-and-Orekhov-Tarasov/d124eb903f704ac9013a9d8843538da24d20813f
R. Tarasov. Towards a Typology of Single Negation and Negative Concord in Constructed Languages. Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars. Saint-Petersburg, 2022, November 24-26. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R--7BDuEgwV0adqxpKlCTaxO0Sul49MNq3n3HRl9NPk/edit

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