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Again on nomina agentis in Tocharian B: some new observations
Tocharian and Indo-European studies. 2020. Vol. 20. P. 83–106.
Itkin I., Курицына А. В.
The Tocharian nt-participles ("active" present participles, PPA) are often considered to be in fact agent nouns; but in Tocharian B, where several types of agent nouns exist, the interaction of both formations has mostly remained unexplored. In this paper, we evaluate the morphological features and usage of the nt-participles and agent nouns in Tocharian B and argue that agent nouns in -auca are complementarily distributed with nt-participles depending on the present class of the underlying verb and thus should be treated as participles (PPA II) as well.
Копылова Е. В., Лапшина К. М., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2026 № 22 С. 284–307
The article presents a lexico-typological description of the verbs of change in Karelian within a frame-based approach. The data was gained from dictionaries and corpora or elicited from native speakers, including bilinguals with Finnish.
To reveal cross-linguistic influence, Karelian data is compared to Finnish within seven frames: Modification, Switching, Non-referential replacement, Referential replacement, Substitution, Compensation, and Exchange. As a ...
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Rakhilina E. V., Zhukova V., Akhapkina Y., Zeitschrift fur Slawistik 2026 Vol. 71 No. 2 P. 259–284
This study examines the most numerous type of construction presented in the Russian Constructicon, namely intensifiers. We studied intensifiers in the context of comparative constructions of inequality like Х bol’še Y‘X is bigger than Y’ –> Х gorazdo bol’še Y‘X is much bigger than Y’. Comparative constructions and intensifiers are usually studied separately since they ...
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Moskvina Z. О., Филология: научные исследования 2026 № 8 С. 629–640
Abstract: The subject of this study is eschatology as a media construct in the contemporary communicative space. This theoretical analysis encompasses the linguistic, narrative, and visual mechanisms through which eschatological motifs migrate from religious discourse to the secular information field, where they are reinterpreted and adapted to the logic of modern media. Particular attention is paid ...
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Borkina A., Russian Japanology Review 2026 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 30–48
The article examines the novel by Japanese writer Qudan Rie Tokyo Sympathy Tower, which was awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Literary Prize in 2024. The award sparked a wide discussion due to the writer’s use of generative artificial intelligence in her work, which not only suggested some ideas, but also became the prototype for one of ...
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Bodrova A. S., Русская литература 2026 № 3 С. 64–75
The article discusses the previously ignored parallels between The Same Old Story by I. A. Goncharov and a fragment of V. F. Odoyevsky’s unfinished novel Year 4338. Letters from Petersburg published in Issue 1 of Moskovsky Nabliudatel magazine in 1825. A detailed analysis of plot, motif, imagery similes between the two texts is provided, the ...
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Tsygunova M., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2026 № 525 С. 56–66
This article examines examples of metaphorical creativity in the works of contemporary American writer Chuck Palahniuk, particularly in the context of describing psychoemotional states. The study examines twenty-six works by Palahniuk (twenty-three short stories and three novels) and identifies examples of metaphorical creativity in the conceptualization of mental states. The analysis focuses on Palahniuk's unconventional ...
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Chernov A., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2026 Т. 9 № 2 С. 217–230
This publication introduces a previously unpublished note by prominent conservative thinker and diplomat Alexandru Sturdza, "The Application of the Holy Alliance to the Current Situation," written in October 1820. The document emerged in the context of an acute crisis of the Vienna system caused by a wave of revolutionary uprisings in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, ...
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Tulyakov D., Professional Discourse & Communication 2026 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 114–130
Although epistemic stance in academic discourse has been extensively researched
in linguistics, relatively little is known about diachronic change and variation in its expression
across disciplines, and still less about the grant proposal abstract, a genre produced under strong
promotional pressure. The present paper addresses this gap by testing whether the widely reported trend towards research “hype” is ...
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Павел Успенский, Новый мир 2026 № 5 С. 181–192
This paper is devoted to the influence of Chodasevič’s poetic technique on Mandel´štam’s poetry. In this work we make an attempt to analyze Mandel´štam’s late Novye stichi (“Ne govori nikomu…”, “Kuda kak strašno nam s toboj…” and “My s toboj na kuchne posidim…”), which are connected to each other through the theme of fear. From ...
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Uspensky P., Горький 2026 № 28.05.
During the Soviet period, Vladislav Khodasevich’s poetry was not widely known, yet his poems had a significant influence on many writers, including the front-line poet Yevgeny Vinokurov. On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of Khodasevich’s birth, Pavel Uspensky, Professor at the School of Philology of the Faculty of Humanities at HSE University, wrote specially ...
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М.: Редакция Елены Шубиной, 2026.
This volume brings together two novels by Avdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva (1820–1893), Trifles of Life (1854) and A Woman’s Lot (1862), neither of which has been republished since its first appearance. At a time of sweeping social change, Panaeva offered a unique perspective on the “woman question.” Her novels portray remarkable women whose right to happiness ...
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Павлина С. Ю., Милащенко Н. Г., Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации 2026 Т. 8 № 3 С. 40–65
Verbal and visual metaphorical and metonymic images are key instruments of political satire, enabling the concise and expressive conveyance of evaluative attitudes toward socio-political realities. However, the multi-level mechanism of creating and decoding such figurative constructs in polycode cartoon texts has not yet received a systematic account. The aim of this study is to identify ...
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Павлина С. Ю., Милащенко Н. Г., Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации 2026 Т. 8 № 3 С. 40–65
Verbal and visual metaphorical and metonymic images are key instruments of political satire, enabling the concise and expressive conveyance of evaluative attitudes toward socio-political realities. However, the multi-level mechanism of creating and decoding such figurative constructs in polycode cartoon texts has not yet received a systematic account. The aim of this study is to identify ...
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Tikhomirova A., Professional Discourse & Communication 2026 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 66–84
Given China’s rise as the world’s leading automotive producer and the radical
transformation of the Russian market, societal acceptance of new market entrants remains a dif
ficult communicative task. Against the backdrop of growing sales and persistent consumer am
bivalence, this study examines how Russian consumers discursively construct, challenge, and
renegotiate the legitimacy of Chinese automobile brands in online ...
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Fedorov D., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2026 Т. 22 № 1 С. 134–166
The article addresses verbs of the semantic field of change in Serbian which is covered by various derivates of the Proto-Slavic *-měn. Starting with perfective verbs of change (izmeniti, promeniti, zameniti, smeniti, razmeniti etc.), the article moves to imperfective verbs, separately discussing verbs prefixed with iz-. While the perfective verb izmeniti is primarily used to ...
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Starchenko A., Kozlov A., Белов П. А., Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка 2026 Т. 85 № 1 С. 77–97
The article examines the problem of part-speech classification and the terminological description of non-finite forms in Forest Nenets, drawing on new data from the Pur dialect. The study analyzes the system of Forest Nenets non-finite forms, which includes action nouns, participles, the gerund, the conditional form, and the supine. The analysis is carried out within ...
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Itkin I., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2024 No. 4 P. 121–134
The article continues the work of cataloging earlier unknown Tocharian B forms found in unpublished text fragments from the Berlin collection (“THT-fragments”), which was started in [Itkin 2022]. It includes the analysis of several dual forms (of different reliability), preterit forms, and some nominal forms that are of special interest as regards inflectional and word-formation ...
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Itkin I., Journal of Language Relationship 2022 No. 20/3-4 P. 177–180
In 2022 A. Huard and R. Chen independently established that words meaning ʽspleenʼ and ʽliverʼ can be reliably identified in Tocharian B. These words, spalce (Acc spalc*) ʽspleenʼ and yakär* ʽliverʼ, go back to Indo-European. In this article, we show that the names of both of these organs can be identified with the same degree ...
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Maria Ermolova, Russian Linguistics 2023 Т. 47 № 3 С. 323–342
The paper discusses the use of the short past active participles (PAP) in the Russian language of the 17th c. The data was collected from private letters from the 17th c. and the first Russian newspaper, Vesty-Kuranty. The function of PAP in the XVIIth c. is compared with their use in both the earlier and ...
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Ermolova M., Slovĕne 2022 Т. 11 № 1 С. 245–280
The article analyzes the hypothesis about the participial functioning of the l-form in the history of the Russian language in the light of Russian dialectal data and the material of the other Slavic languages. Many facts that confirm this hypothesis are found both in Russian dialects and Slavic languages. The first part of the paper ...
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Ю. М. Кувшинская, Н. А. Зевахина, Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2023 Т. 19 № 1 С. 138–192
The paper studies tendencies in the use of full single (i.e. without their arguments) redundant participles in the attributive position in the Russian written discourse. Relying upon the data of the Russian National Corpus and the Corpus of Russian Student Texts, as well as a number of the examples collected from various written sources, the ...
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Kulikov L., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2022 Т. 18 № 1 С. 179–190
The article discusses the etymology of the Greek theonym Κρόνος (Cronus), qualified by all dictionaries as etymologically unclear. I argue that this name can be considered as a member of the small class of nouns in ‑όνο‑ with agent‑instrumental semantics. Following an old proposal by H. D. Müller (later advocated by M. Janda),
I adopt the analysis of this ...
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Ermolova M., Slavia 2022 Т. 91 № 3 С. 283–299
The article analyzes how different discursive properties of the l-form reported in the literature correspond to the specific l-form’s contexts. The usage of the l-form in these contexts cannot be exhaustively accounted for by any discursive function which is described in the scientific literature. Some of the functions refer to the syntactic structure (it is ...
Added: November 4, 2022
Itkin I., Kratylos 2021 Vol. 1 No. 66 P. 124–148
The article is a detailed review of the monograph by the famous Indo-Europeanist R. Kim on the dual of nouns in the Tocharian languages. Along with a number of quite convincing theses, R. Kim's book also contains controversial propositions. Thus, the author's statement about the almost complete disappearance of the dual number in Tocharian A seems to be ...
Added: October 31, 2022