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Valency patterns in Mande: Contact vs inheritance
Studies in Language. 2025. Vol. 49. No. 4. P. 823–857.
In this paper, we address valency patterns in seven Mande languages with various degrees of genealogical proximity. Our study is based on the BivalTyp questionnaire focusing on 130 two-place predicates (Say 2020). While belonging to two distinct genetic groupings, two languages of the set, i.e. Mano (Southern Mande) and Kpelle (Southwestern Mande), are in intense contact with one another. We found that although Mano verbal stems are virtually unaffected by contact, the patterns of valency expression, including construction types and choice of postposition, but also the semantics of complex verbs are strongly influenced by Kpelle. This study thus adds further evidence for the predominance of pattern borrowing in multilingual settings.
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Akhunova O., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 108–119
There is a scene in Pindar’s Pythian 9 that attracts much attention of
scholars, not only because the erotic theme in general is unusual for Pindar,
but also because in this scene neither the question that Apollo addresses
Chiron, nor the answer that Chiron gives him, can be unambiguously
interpreted. Does Apollo intend to commit open violence against Cyrene,
or ...
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Reznikova T., Rakhilina E. V., Ryzhova D. et al., Lingua 2026 Vol. 341
The article examines lexification of the semantic domains of searching and finding based on a sample of 25+ languages. First, it discusses the semantic parameters underlying lexical oppositions within each of the domains (e.g., type of the subject and referentiality of the object, for searching; intentionality and animacy of the object, for finding). Second, it ...
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Bergelson M., Grenoble L., Russian Journal of Linguistics 2026 Vol. 30 No. 2 P. 275–309
This introductory article surveys current theoretical and methodological trends in language policy
research in multilingual and multiethnic societies, with particular attention to the post-Soviet space
and the Russian Federation. Drawing on structural, critical, ecological, and urban sociolinguistic
approaches, the paper traces the evolution of language policy scholarship from early language
planning models to contemporary frameworks emphasizing multilingualism, globalization, social
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The papers in this thematic volume demonstrate that language policy in the post-Soviet
space and elsewhere reveals a fundamental tension that mirrors global shifts: the
conflict between state efforts to manage national identity and the organic reality of
human communication. While regional nationalization efforts often demonstrate
global patterns of securitization, the actual practices of speakers tell a different
story.
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Moroz A., Антропологический форум 2026 Т. 69 С. 296–324
Some rather unusual stories have been recorded from time to time in various Russian regions: about one village that sold its holiday to another, about the residents of one village who stole a chapel from another one and transported it to their own village, or how a rural priest gambled away part of his parish ...
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Издательский дом КФУ им. В. И. Вернадского, 2023.
В сборнике представлены статьи по докладам участников VIII Международного научного конгресса «Филология. Социальная и национальная вариативность языка и литературы», который проходил в г. Симферополь 7 – 8 апреля 2023 г. В представленных публикациях рассматриваются актуальные проблемы социолингвистики, социофонетики и фоностилистики, индоевропеистики, литературоведения, языкознания и корпусной лингвистики, коммуникативистики и прагмалингвистики, лингводидактики, библиотечного обслуживания, диалога культур и ...
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М.: ИСАА МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова, 2023.
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Gromova A., Научный вестник Крыма (Россия, ISSN: 2499-9911) 2021 № 2 (31) С. 1–13
The Iranian ‘Teleschool’ that was launched in 2020 on the base of standard schoolbooks published by the Ministry of Education, reflects the common vision of the glorious history of Ancient Iran and promotes the national cultural heritage. The present article aims to describe a comprehensive selection of new learning materials such as original texts and ...
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Gromova A., Армянский гуманитарный вестник 2022 № 8 С. 267–275
The article describes the local customs of celebrating the Iranian New Year in Davan, an ancient village in the province of Fars, Iran, known for its unique landscape and archaic dialect. Some of the traditions that exist here can be attributed to all-Iranian seasonal practices, however, certain culinary traditions and sweets (for example, popcorn rice ...
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Pakhomova A., Quaestio Rossica 2026 Т. 14 № 2 С. 389–405
This paper examines the structural and pragmatic characteristics of the literary circle (Rus. литературный круг), a form of literary cooperation that has rarely been the subject of independent analysis, particularly when compared with other forms of writers’ associations (such as clubs, salons, and groups). The main set of issues associated with the literary circle lies ...
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Gromova A., М.: КноРус, 2023.
Учебное пособие по лингвострановедению предназначено для востоковедов, изучающих персидский язык в рамках различных специализаций: регионоведение, филология, история и политология, экономическое развитие стран Ближнего и Среднего Востока. Пособие знакомит с реалиями современной иранской жизни и национальными новостными ресурсами, широко использует материалы Интернета. Книга оставляет известную свободу в выборе материала для занятий в зависимости от уровня владения ...
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Межерицкая С. И., М.: Аквилон, 2024.
Настоящее исследование посвящено изучению и описанию жанра прозаического гимна, определению его места в системе жанров
эпидейктического красноречия, а также генезису и развитию
в позднеантичной риторической традиции. Оба вопроса — природа
и становление данного жанра — тесно взаимосвязаны. Так, с одной
стороны, полная характеристика прозаического гимна возможна только при условии его сопоставления с гимном поэтическим — древнейшим жанром древнегреческой хоровой ...
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Межерицкая С. И., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2022 Vol. 18 P. 453–468
This article presents a review of research literature on the so-called Second Sophistic (late first – early
third centuries CE), that marked the flowering of ancient Greek oratory and had a powerful influence
on the beginning of the Christian eloquence. The scholars’ interest in this topic increased in the second
half of the 19th century due to insufficient ...
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Межерицкая С. И., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. XXX № 2 С. 102–120
The article is devoted to the history and circumstances surrounding the appearance of the first Latin editions of the political speeches of Dio Chrysostom, produced in the late 15th century by Italian humanists, which marked the beginning of centuries-long study and popularization of the works of this major ancient Greek orator and sophist in Europe. ...
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Gromova A., КноРус, 2026.
Предназначено для востоковедов, изучающих персидский язык в рамках различных специализаций, таких как история, политология, регионоведение, филология, экономическое развитие стран Ближнего и Среднего Востока. Рассчитано на студентов востоковедных вузов второго курса, знакомит с основными этапами истории Древнего Ирана, туристским потенциалом этой многоликой страны, с национальными новостными и тематическими онлайн-ресурсами. Книга оставляет известную свободу в выборе материала ...
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Межерицкая С. И., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. XXIX № 2 С. 40–55
In political speeches of Dio Chrysostom, in particular in his so-called
“Bithynian speeches”, specific vocabulary is widely used, which includes
the words such as ὁμόνοια (agreement), εἰρήνη ‘peace’, στάσις ‘discord’, ἔχθρα ‘enmity’, φιλονικία ‘rivalry’, etc. However, the specific meaning of
these terms depends on the context and can vary significantly in different speeches of Dio. For example, his ...
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Межерицкая С. И., Шаги/Steps 2026 Т. 12 № 2 С. 197–206
The article examines two cases of parodic reinterpretation
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nemo ‘nobody’, as reflected in medieval religious Latin literature.
The author discusses two works from the second half of the
13th century: Historia de Nemine, attributed to a certain learned
French monk named Radulph, and Reprobatio nefandi sermonis
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M.: Max press, 2026.
The volume includes 64 papers from the international conference on computational linguistics and intelligent technologies 'Dialogue 2026,' representing a broad spectrum of theoretical and applied research in the field of natural language description, language process modeling, and the development of practically applicable computational linguistic technologies.
For specialists in theoretical and applied linguistics and intelligent technologies. ...
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Shulyatieva D., Венедиктова Т. Д., Анцыферова О. Ю., LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS 2026 № 20 С. 84–137
Круглый стол, посвященный роману Пола Остера (1947–2024) «Стеклянный город»
(1985), в котором приняли участие преподаватели, аспиранты и студенты, состоялся на филологическом факультете МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова 8 декабря 2025 г. Поводом было сорокалетие публикации романа, ставшему впоследствии первой частью «Нью-йоркской трилогии» Остера. Писателю удалось соединить в «Стеклянном городе» экзистенциальную
озабоченность с нарративным экспериментом и условности криминального жанра ...
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Межерицкая С. И., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Язык и литература 2025 Т. 22 № 2 С. 437–445
The article examines one of the popular genres of epideictic eloquence in late Antiquity — the welcome speech — in the theoretical and practical aspects. The rhetorical canon of welcoming speeches was described in detail by Menander of Laodicea (3nd century) in the treatise “On Epideictic Eloquence” and, obviously, was compiled by him on the ...
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Yakovleva A., Kosheliuk N., Moroz G., International Journal of Bilingualism 2025 P. 1–19
Aims and Research Questions: In this paper, we present a corpus-based study of preposition drop (p-drop) in the speech of Mari-Russian and Beserman-Russian bilinguals compared to the speech of Russian monolinguals. Based on data from spoken corpora, we demonstrate that the prepositions v ‘in’, k ‘to’, s ‘with’ are omitted in the speech of bilinguals ...
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Savelyev A., Вопросы языкового родства 2025 № 23/1-2 С. 137–167
This article represents the first part of a two-part study devoted to the analysis of Turkic loanwords of the Bulghar-Chuvash type in the Permic languages. In this part, general criteria are proposed for distinguishing Bulgharic borrowings within the corpus of Udmurt and Komi words of Turkic origin. In addition, a “core” layer of Bulghar-Chuvash loanwords ...
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Khachaturyan M., Konoshenko M., Moroz G. et al., , in: N’yng-dyuumgu, n’yng-ngafq: Festschrift for Ekaterina GruzdevaVol. 126.: Helsinki: Studia Orientalia, 2025. P. 35–59.
This paper explores a corpus of spontaneous narratives and narrative retellings told by children and adults in Mano and Kpelle, two contacting Mande languages. It focuses on quotative constructions as a key point of grammatical dissimilarity between Mano and Kpelle. In the Mano speech of some bilingual children, however, these constructions are found to manifest ...
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Shvedova E., Koryakov Y., Elizaveta Zabelina, Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3–4 P. 207–275
This study documents and analyzes lexical data from four Christian North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic varieties: Mahmudi, Nudiz, Verin Dvin Urmi, and Urmia Urmi, focusing on the previously undescribed Mahmudi and Nudiz. We provide correspondences from these lects for an extended 226-item basic vocabulary list collected for this study with etymologies, cognates from earlier Aramaic, and loanword sources. ...
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