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Applicative constructions in the Northwest Caucasian languages
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This chapter describes applicative constructions in the polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian languages, which are typologically unusual in several respects. First, these languages possess an extraordinarily rich system of applicatives whose semantic functions range from benefactive, comitative and malefactive to fairly specialized spatial meanings. Second, the Northwest Caucasian applicatives invariably introduce indirect objects, thus almost never affecting the ergative-absolutive alignment of core arguments and serving as important and often only means of integrating peripheral
participants into clausal structure. We describe the morphology, syntax and semantics of applicatives, as well as a range of non-trivial phenomena such as the semantically empoverished and morphosyntactically special “dative” applicative and the uses of applicatives in agent demotion and clause combining.
Maisak T., Transactions of the Philological Society 2026 Vol. 124 No. 2 P. 386–427
This paper presents a first typological study of a particular type of imperative interjections, namely interjections with the meaning ‘here, take it!’ used by a speaker when they ask the addressee to take something from the speaker's hands (often combined with a gesture of giving). The sample of languages is both geographically and genealogically restricted ...
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Stenin I., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 4 P. 86–111
The article examines causativization strategies in Amguema Chukchi. It focuses primarily on the morphological causative marked by the prefix r- (-n-), which can be derived freely from patientive and experiential intransitive predicates. Only certain classes of agentive intransitive predicates, such as change-of-posture and ingestive verbs, form the proper causative. With most other agentive intransitive verbs, ...
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Petrunina U., Zdorova N., , in: Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies. Papers from the Annual International Conference “Dialogue” (2025)Issue 23: Supplementary volume.: ., 2025. P. 1100–1109.
The study introduces a cross-linguistic approach extending the English-based Flesch Reading Ease formula
for the assessment of Adyghe texts’ readability level. The method relies on the corpus-based analysis of Adyghe
shallow linguistic features, i.e. syllable length, word count, and sentence length. It allows to adjust the Flesch
formula in accordance with these features by means of natural language ...
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Poliakova E., RHEMA. РЕМА 2024 № 1 С. 28–60
Equasimilative constructions belong to the semantic field of comparison,
but have been studied to a much less extent than comparative constructions.
There are practically no areal-typological studies in this area. This paper focuses on equasimilative constructions in Khwarshi proper (Nakh-Dagestanian).
Additionally, it provides an overview of equasimilative constructions
in the languages of the Caucasus to determine the parameters that ...
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Симонова Т. В., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2025 No. 3 P. 7–29
Over the past half century, the analysis of questions has played an important role in the development
of the syntactic theory. Despite this, echo questions have been given quite little attention, and
most studies on echo questions focused on data from a single language. In this paper, I review strategies
of forming echo questions of different types in ...
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Lander Y., Studies in Language 2026 Vol. 50 No. 1 P. 33–67
This paper documents relative clause constructions in the polysynthetic Circassian languages of the West Caucasian family and attempts to establish diachronic links between them. It is shown that the Circassian languages possess both externally-headed and internally-headed relative clauses, with the latter having semantic heads that are interpreted outside of the relative clause. In addition, these ...
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Ivanov Y., Международная аналитика 2024 Т. 15 № 3 С. 108–121
This study examines the evolution of the Circassian ethno-national movement, one of the most
prominent in Russia, and its connection to the Adyghe diaspora communities in Turkey, Syria,
Jordan, Israel, Western Europe, and the United States. In the 1990s, Circassian nationalists proposed
the creation of a unifi ed Circassia, either as part of Russia or as an independent ...
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Plungian V., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2023 Т. 19 № 3 С. 15–38
Статья является одновременно предисловием и теоретическим введением к последующим статьям данного специального выпуска журнала ALP. В статье дается общая характеристика проекта подготовки базы данных типологически релевантных грамматических контекстов на основе параллельного корпуса переводов Нового Завета. Также приводится краткий обзор состава и содержания публикуемых далее статей. ...
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Creissels D., Zúñiga F., Moroz G., , in: Applicative Constructions in the World's Languages.: Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. P. 61–73.
Languages are listed alphabetically within each of the following five areas: North America, South America, Africa, Pacific, and Eurasia.The genetic affiliation of the languages listed in this index is provided along the lines of the classification of languages adopted in WALS Online (Dryer and Haspelmath 2013), with only some minor modifications that are commented in ...
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Moroz G., Polinsky M., , in: Applicative Constructions in the World's Languages.: Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. Ch. 30 P. 1033–1044.
This chapter constitutes an update on the overview chapter on applicative constructions that appeared in the World Atlas of Language Structures (Polinsky 2003, 2013). The update has been possible thanks to the novel empirical material represented in the current handbook and to new descriptive and theoretical work on applicatives that has appeared since the compilation ...
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Plungian V., Journal of Pragmatics 2001 Vol. 33 No. 3 P. 349–357
The paper discusses the cross-linguistic classification of evidential values (including the so-called admirative value) and proposes a typology of evidential systems based on the distinction between ‘direct’, ‘reflected’, and ‘mediated’ evidence. ...
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Plungian V., van der Auwera J., STUF - Language Typology and Universals 2006 Vol. 59 No. 4 P. 317–349
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van der Auwera J., Plungian V., Linguistic Typology 1998 Vol. 2 No. 1 P. 79–124
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Plungian V., М.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2011.
Первое на русском языке систематическое введение в типологию грамматических категорий имени и глагола в языках мира. ...
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Plungian V., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2016 Т. 12 № 2 С. 7–36
Статья открывает сборник статей, посвященный типологии глагольной граммемы перфекта в языках мира. Отмечается, что можно выделить три круга проблем, связанных с типологическим описанием перфекта. Первая и самая очевидная сложность – это определение семантики соответствующих глагольных показателей. Сущности, отождествляемые как перфект, демонстрируют высокую степень полисемии, контексты их употреблений в разных языках, как правило, не совпадают, иногда ...
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Lander Y., В кн.: Клычевские чтения - 2023. Материалы международной научной конференции.: Карачаевск: Издательство Карачаево-Черкесского государственного университета имени У.Д. Алиева, 2023. С. 5–10.
В абхазо-адыгских языках именные основы с легкостью принимают морфологию сказуемого, что приводит к определенным сложностям в противопоставлении частей речи. В работе обсуждаются разные стратегии, противопоставляющие имена прочим знаменательным словам в позиции сказуемого в абазинском языке и предварительно обсуждается аналогичный абхазский материал. ...
Added: June 1, 2023