{"id":18343,"date":"2026-10-19T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18343"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:50:25","slug":"morphun-10-22-nikita-bezrukov-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/10\/19\/morphun-10-22-nikita-bezrukov-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MorPhun 10\/22 - Nikita Bezrukov (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Nikita Bezrukov (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Building New Plurals from Old Morphology: Evidence from Armenian<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, October 22nd, 5pm - 6pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D769<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Modern Armenian has two major productive plural suffixes, -er with monosyllabic stems and -ner with polysyllabic stems. These are commonly thought to be historically related, with -ner developing from an earlier sequence -ni-er. I use cross-dialectal evidence, especially from the Van\u0096Shatakh area, to support this reconstruction and then ask how such a change should be modeled formally. Building on Diertani 2011, Alexiadou 2021, and Dali &amp; Mathieu 2021, I treat the development as restructuring of Vocabulary Items over a largely stable nominal structure, involving affix migration, recutting, and changes in the distribution of competing plural exponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Nikita Bezrukov (MIT) Title: Building New Plurals from Old Morphology: Evidence from Armenian Time: Thursday, October 22nd, 5pm - 6pm Location: 32-D769 Abstract: Modern Armenian has two major productive plural suffixes, -er with monosyllabic stems and -ner with polysyllabic stems. These are commonly thought to be historically related, with -ner developing from an earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18352,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions\/18352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}