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Gender Asymmetries in Slovak Personal Nouns Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Gender Asymmetries in Slovak Personal Nouns Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University By Mgr. Marcela Michálková, M.Phil. Graduate Program in Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures The Ohio State University 2009 Dissertation Committee: Daniel E. Collins, Advisor Charles E. Gribble Brian D. Joseph Copyright by Marcela Michálková 2009 Abstract The aim of the current study is to reveal asymmetries in the linguistic encoding of male and female persons in Slovak by analyzing ample lexical material from a synchronic perspective. Specifically, I examine a corpus of over 60,000 lemmas, document a sub-corpus of approximately 6,000 personal nouns, devise a taxonomy model of sixteen semantic classes based on Dickins (2001), and classify the Slovak personal nouns by semantic class. I further examine in detail the issue of the relationship between significant types of asymmetries (lexical gaps determined by biological, social, cultural and/or historical roles of men and women within the family unit, community, or society; gaps which are attributed to formal constraints; parallel designations for women and men with a semantic difference; epicene nouns; and double-gender nouns) and the semantic classes in which those asymmetries tend to occur. Based on the linguistic evidence, I determine which semantic classes show tendencies towards symmetrical gender relationships, and which classes resist forming parallel terms for male and female referents. The current analysis of the Slovak data contrasts with numerous articles dealing with gender asymmetry in that it shows that the tendency towards gender symmetry is greater than in some other related languages, for instance Czech and Polish. ii To Martin, for love and inestimable support over the years iii Acknowledgments First and foremost I acknowledge my sincerest thanks to my advisor, Dr. Daniel E. Collins, who guided me through this project from the preliminary to the concluding stage while allowing me the room to work in my own way. It would have been next to impossible to write this dissertation without his supervision, encouragement, invaluable advice and insight throughout my work as well as his impressive knowledge of all things linguistic and non-linguistic. I am heartily thankful to Dr. Charles E. Gribble and Dr. Brian Joseph—not only for serving on my committee and offering useful comments and suggestions to improve my dissertation, but also (and mainly) for being truly inspirational linguists and teachers during my studies at the Ohio State University. I wish I could thank in person someone I never met, Tom Dickins, whose “Gender differentiation and the asymmetrical use of animate nouns in contemporary Czech” inspired me to conceive my own research project. I would also like to thank Dr. Margarita Mazo for serving as the Graduate School Representative; Dr. Neil Jakobs for reading my dissertation proposal and giving his feedback; Dr. Andrea Sims for her valuable comments; Dr. Mark Nuckols, who read and edited part of an early draft of this study which I presented at the Midwest Slavic iv Conference in April 2009 in Columbus, OH; Dr. Andrei Cretu for helping me with some last-minute technical problems; and Dr. Jirka Hana, for correcting some of my Czech data, for sharing his insights, for his useful comments and suggestions (particularly for those which undermined my conclusions), and for his friendship and support over the years. I am grateful to my mom Alžbeta Molčanová and my mother-in-law Monika Michálková, who flew across the ocean multiple times to temporarily take over my non- academic responsibilities and provide me with moral support. I also thank my sister Slávka Ivančová and my brother Juraj Molčan, for always believing in me and for their patience during my absence from the place where I was supposed be; Viktória Gačová, who left everything and everyone behind and flew in when I needed her most; Maggie Gruszcynska, for her constant encouragement and for being a true friend and a soulmate; Anastasia Kostetskaya, for making her home my office when I was “at the final stage of my final stage” of my dissertation writing; and Hanka Hanová, Larysa Stepanova, and Katie Manukyan for friendship and help. Finally, I owe everlasting gratitude to Martin, Samuel and Aleš, who have been an invisible presence during the composition of this dissertation. Thank you for your love and patience. v Vita Education 1996 ................................................. Mgr. (Master Degree) Slovak Language and Literature, and English Language and Literature, P. J. Šafárik University, Prešov, Slovakia 1999 .................................................. M.Phil. Scandinavian Linguistics, University of Tromsø, Norway Awards and Fellowships 1986 .................................................. National Champion, National Botany Contest 1988 .................................................. The Best Slovak High School Magazine Award (Deputy Editor-In-Chief), by the Slovak Association of Journalists 1996–99 ............................................ English Taught Quota Programme Fellowship of the Norwegian Government 1998 .................................................. UiTø travel grant to attend the Linguistic Summer School in San Sebastian, Spain 2000 .................................................. SR Governement Grant to attend the Summer Academy “Regions and Minorities in Greater Europe” , European Academy of Bolzano, EURAC, South Tyrol 2003 .................................................. Honorable Mention by the Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) Selection Committee, The Ohio State University vi 2005 .................................................. Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) nominee, The Ohio State University 2009 .................................................. Distinguished Graduate Leadership Award/In Recognition of Outstanding Dedication to Departmental Service and Excellence in Scholarship and Teaching, The Ohio State University Professional Experience 1999–2001 ........................................ Coordinator of the Professional and Language Training in the State Administration within the Framework of the European Integration Process, Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic, Department of Institutions Building and Citizens Preparation for the EU Membership, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Project manager “Training of the European Union Trainers”, Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava/ Berlin/ Brussels 2006 ................................................. Slovak Language Instructor, East European Summer Language Institute, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures , University of Pittsburgh 2001–present ..................................... Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University Publications Molčanová, Marcela. 1999. “Syntaktický charakter slovotvorných princípov (Švédčina z transformačno generatívneho zorného uhla)” [Syntactic Character of Word- Formation Principles (Swedish from the Transformational and Generative Point of View)]. In Jazykovedný časopis 50, No. 2, 112–19, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), Bratislava. Michálková, Marcela. 2004. “Compound Formation in Slovak: Inflectional Linking Elements as Evidence for Multi-Inflectional Words.” In Ohio State University Working Papers in Slavic Studies, vol. 3: Proceedings of the First Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics, ed. Andrea. D. Sims and Miriam Whiting, 99– vii 120. Columbus: Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures. Conference Presentations Molčanová, Marcela. 1993. “Association Backgrounds of Words in Word Games.” Paper presented at the Slovak Linguistic Forum at the P. J. Šafárik University in Prešov, Slovak Republic, November 1993. Molčanová, Marcela. 1996. “Intra-Phraseology and De-Phraseology.” Paper presented at the Graduate Research Colloquium (ŠVOČ) at the P. J. Šafárik University in Prešov, Slovak Republic, April 1996. Michálková, Marcela. 2003. “Multiinflectional Words? (Slovak Compounds Mediated Via Proper Inflectional Linking Elements).” Paper presented at the First Slavic Linguistics Graduate Colloquium at the Ohio State University, Columbus, November 2003. Michálková, Marcela. 2004. “Intra-Phraseological And De-Phraseological Word- Formation In Slovak.” Paper presented at the Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, Ohio, February 2004. Michálková, Marcela. 2006. “On Two Approaches To Codification Of Slovak Literary Language.” Paper presented at the Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, Ohio, April 2006. Michálková, Marcela. 2009. “Lexical Gender Asymmetries In the Use Of Human/Personal Nouns In Slovak.” Paper presented at the Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, Ohio, April 2009. Fields of study Major field: Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures viii Table of Contents Abstract............................................................................................................................. ii Dedication ....................................................................................................................... iii Acknowledgments............................................................................................................iv Vita.................................................................................................................................. .vi
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