고대러시아어 대명사 축소형의 범주적 지위에 대하여

On the Categorial Status of Old Russian Reduced Pronouns

This paper is devoted to an examination of the categorical status of reduced pronominal forms in Old Russian. In Old Russian pronouns had a dual morphological system consisting of full and reduced forms, the latter of which has been lost in Modern East Slavic. In the literature, Old Russian reduced pronouns have been analyzed as second position clitics, appearing in the second position of a clause. However, deviating patterns are also observed. This paper argues that the occurrences of reduced pronouns as complements of prepositions may be the first symptom of the weakening of clitichood. Furthermore, increasing occurrences of reduced pronouns in non-second positions, including clause-initial positions, and some conventional uses of reduced forms as fixed expressions in a later period of Old Russian indicate that those reduced forms no more function as clitics. The paper establishes a pronoun hierarchy elaborated from Cardinaletti and Starke’s deficiency hierarchy (1996, 1999), Cetnarwska’s Pronoun Scale (2003, 2004), and Toivonen’s pronoun typology (2001). When viewed based on the refined hierarchy, Old Russian reduced pronouns are more adequately identified as Deficient 1 (formally reduced but syntactically free and prosodically independent) rather than clitics, i.e., Deficient 3 (formally reduced, syntactically restricted, and prosodically dependent). Diachronically, the proposed pronoun hierarchy implies grammaticalization path as a change from a phrase (XP) to a head (X⁰). The transition of Old Russian reduced pronouns from clitics to weak pronouns reverses the pronoun hierarchy, hence instantiates degrammaticalization, the shift of a constitutent from ahead(X⁰) to aphrase(XP). Similar phenomena, in which clitics degrammaticalize into weak pronouns, are observed in some other Slavic languages, notably in Modern Macedonian and Old Polish.