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Non-canonical constructions with reflexive possessives in Russian: u-possessor constructions
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Our paper focuses on the Russian expression svoj. Many authors argue that it should be divided into two lexemes: a reflexive possessive that must be locally bound and an adjective. However, while some cases are clear, the others became a source of controversy. This problem has never been analyzed in a corpus study. In this paper, we examined a corpus sample of the sentences with nominative svoj. We showed that examples with external possessors with u-PPs are the most frequent in this set and analyzed them in more detail. Two types of such constructions with partly different properties are identified. In sum, we concluded that svoj does not occupy the syntactic position of the possessor in the NP and does not express a possessive relation semantically. Rather, it acts as a clause-level adjectival predicate, and its meaning is similar to that of the English different.
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Тискин Д. Б., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2025 Vol. 8 No. 1 P. 112–129
There are several rival theories of fake indexicals, i.e. bound indexicals (prominently pronouns) whose φ-features do not semantically contribute to focus alternatives (e.g. Only Mary did her homework, John didn’t do his). According to Minimal Pronoun theories (such as Kratzer’s or Wurmbrand’s), bound pronouns are Merged without φ-features and acquire them under binding via agreement-like ...
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U. P. Strizhak, Russian Japanology Review 2024 Vol. 7 No. 1 P. 110–127
The phenomenon of “Japanese Dostoevsky” is the subject of active discussions in literary studies all over the world. One of the central issues discussed is the problem of the textual images in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky. The use of digital humanities’ technologies, the methods of corpus and computational linguistics makes it possible to formalize ...
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Letuchiy A., Русский язык в научном освещении 2023 № 2(46) С. 139–179
The article focuses on nonstandard subordinate constructions like I know what my father thinks — I should learn to cook. In these context, the second clause semantically
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Zevakhina N., Shchipkova A. A., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2024 No. 2 P. 35–51
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In this article I present a connection between frequency and length of person-number indexes via two independent researches: token frequency obtained from the Universal Dependencies’ treebanks and type frequency gathered within a typological study. After introducing the results of those two studies, I will present East Caucasian data. I show that the unusual history of ...
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Rudnev P., Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2020 Vol. 5 No. 1 P. 1–19
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Ryzhova D., Melnik A. A., Ершов И. А. et al., , in: Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Proceedings of the International Conference “Dialogue 2018”.: [б.и.], 2018. P. 619–636.
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Volkova A. A., / Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2017. No. 54.
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Volkova A. A., Studia Linguistica 2017 Vol. 71 No. 1-2 P. 178–204
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