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Making sense of variable number agreement in Russian
Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 2025. No. 1. P. 62–77.
In this paper, we focus on Russian quantified noun phrases that are known to be able to trigger plural verbal agreement or no agreement at all. Descriptively, we offer a novel generalization: when such phrases trigger plural verbal agreement, they cannot be interpreted in the immediate scope of negation. We show that this generalization falls out if these plural-agreeing phrases are treated in semantics as individual-denoting choice-functional indefinites and not as generalized quantifiers. Theoretically, we speculate that interpretable number features are in principle incompatible with generalized quantifier denotations.
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Logvinova N., Russian linguistics 2026 Vol. 50 Article 11
This paper presents the first in-depth corpus-based study of a previously overlooked syntactic variation in Russian: the competition between juxtapositional (Nominative) and possessive-like (Genitive) encoding of the second noun (the term) in specificational constructions (e.g., ponjatie čest’ (notion.NOM honor.NOM) vs. ponjatie česti (notion.NOMhonor.GEN) ‘the notion of honor’). While typological research has established cross-linguistic preferences for one encoding strategy over another, intralinguistic variation ...
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Gridneva E., Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Filologiya 2026 No. 100 P. 38–52
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Керимов Р. Э., Новое прошлое 2026 № 1 С. 148–162
The arrest of East German writer and publishing director Günter Hofé at the 1963 Frankfurt Book Fair became a unique episode of ideological confrontation between East and West Germany. Hofé is primarily known for his documentary-fiction trilogy about World War II, in which he actively participated as a Wehrmacht soldier. The analysis of the writer’s ...
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The majority of studies on the metrical aspects of Olga Sedakova’s poetry focus on the formal elements of versification, rarely exploring the substantive possibilities of the chosen metres. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the unified narrative of the four-foot amphibrach, tracing its development in Russian poetry from V.A. Zhukovsky to O.A. Sedakova. At ...
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Тискин Д. Б., М.: Издательская группа URSS, 2026.
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Tiutiunnikova V., Mikhailov Stiopa, Golosov F., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2025 No. 29 P. 1593–1608
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Denis Pisarenko, Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2022 Vol. 5 No. 1 P. 72–90
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Lahav O., Namakonov E., Oberhauser J. et al., Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 2021 Vol. 5 No. OOPSLA Article 98
Liveness properties, such as termination, of even the simplest shared-memory concurrent programs under sequential consistency typically require some fairness assumptions about the scheduler. Under weak memory models, we observe that the standard notions of thread fairness are insufficient, and an additional fairness property, which we call memory fairness, is needed. In this paper, we propose ...
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Popova D., на рассмотрении 2025 P. 1–14
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in Komi-Zyrian. We found that in resultative contexts, the first past tense morphology
and the second past tense morphology compete with each other. While the use of the
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Ivlieva N., Journal of Semantics 2020 Vol. 37 No. 3 P. 425–454
Following a recent discussion in Fox and Spector 2018, this paper provides an argument for a
particular view of the theory of scalar implicatures and exhaustification where exhaustification
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I show that this idea is helpful to make sense of the so-called dependent plural imterpreta
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Ivlieva N., Podobryaev A., Snippets 2019 No. 37 P. 52–53
In this snippet we discuss the effects of optional plural agreement on scope in Russian. ...
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Bylinina L., Podobryaev A., Journal of Semantics 2020 Vol. 37 No. 1 P. 117–128
In a variety of languages, plural DPs like books systematically show non-singularity inferences
in some contexts, but not in others.
Competition-based theories of plurality derive non-singularity inferences from reasoning about
the meaning of the plural form against its singular alternative (Sauerland, 2003; Spector, 2007;
Zweig, 2009). A parallel claim has been made about the meaning of singular DPs { in ...
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Ivlieva N., Alxatib S., , in: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21.: [б.и.], 2018. P. 1–17.
We discuss the problem of deriving upper-bounded meanings of few, fewer than, and related expressions, in treatments where they are taken to denote predicates of individuals. In such analyses, the determiner-like uses of these expressions are derived by existentially- closing their predicate denotations, but this is known to give rise to problems (van Benthem, 1986). We show ...
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"Sinn und Bedeutung" is a leading European conference on formal semantics and formal pragmatics, held annually at different universities across Europe. The present volume contains a collection of papers presented at the 21st “Sinn und Bedeutung” at the University of Edinburgh on September 4th–6th, 2016. ...
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Yaroslavl: Ярославский государственный университет им. П.Г. Демидова, 2018.
Workshop on Program Semantics, Specification and Verification: Theory and Applications is the leading event in Russia in the field of applying of the formal methods to software analysis. Proceedings of the ninth workshop dedicated to formalisms for program semantics, formal models and verification, programming and specification languages, algebraic and logical aspects of programming. ...
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