{"id":1467,"date":"2022-08-05T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2022-08-18T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T23:52:09","slug":"defectivity-polish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/defectivity-polish\/","title":{"rendered":"Defectivity in Polish"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This is part of a series of\u00a0defectivity case studies<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

Gorman & Yang (2019), following up on a tip from\u00a0Margaret Borowczyk (p.c.) discuss inflectional gaps in Polish declension. In this language, masculine genitive singular (gen.sg.) are marked either with -a<\/em> or -u<\/em>. The two gen.sg. suffixes have a similar type frequency, and neither appears to be more default-like than the other. For instance, both allomorphs are used with loanwords. Because of this, it is generally agreed that the gen.sg. allomorphy is purely arbitrary and must be learned by rote, a process that continues into adulthood (e.g., D\u0105browska 2001, 2005).<\/p>\n

Kottum (1981: 182) reports his informants have no gen.sg. for masculine-gender toponyms like Dublin\u00a0<\/em>‘id.’ (e.g., *Dublina\/*Dublinu<\/em>), G\u00f6teborg<\/em> ‘Gothenburg’ and Tarnobrzeg<\/em> ‘id.’, and Gorman & Yang (2019: 184) report their informants do not have a gen.sg. for words like drut<\/em> ‘wire’ (e.g., *druta\/*drutu<\/em>, though the latter is prescribed), rower\u00a0<\/em>‘bicycle’, balon\u00a0<\/em>‘baloon’,\u00a0karabin\u00a0<\/em>‘rifle’,\u00a0autobus\u00a0<\/em>‘bus’, and\u00a0lotos\u00a0<\/em>‘lotus flower’.<\/p>\n

References<\/h1>\n

D\u0105browska, E. 2001. Learning a morphological system without a default: The Polish genitive. Journal of Child Language<\/em> 28: 545-574.
\nD\u0105browska, E. 2005. Productivity and beyond: mastering the Polish genitive inflection. Journal of Child Language<\/em> 32:191-205.
\nGorman,. K. and Yang, C. 2019. When nobody wins. In F. Rainer, F. Gardani, H. C. Lusch\u00fctzky and W. U. Dressler (ed.), Competition in Inflection and Word Formation<\/em>, pages 169-193. Springer.
\nKottum, S. S. 1981. The genitive singular form of masculine nouns in Polish. Scando-Slavica<\/em> 27: 179-186.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This is part of a series of\u00a0defectivity case studies.] Gorman & Yang (2019), following up on a tip from\u00a0Margaret Borowczyk (p.c.) discuss inflectional gaps in Polish declension. In this language, masculine genitive singular (gen.sg.) are marked either with -a or -u. The two gen.sg. suffixes have a similar type frequency, and neither appears to be … Continue reading “Defectivity in Polish”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defectivity","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}