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Circassian relatives: a contribution to the synchronic and diachronic typology of the externally/internally-headed relative clause distinction
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 languages have constructions which cannot be unequivocally assigned to one type or the other, and have properties of both. This paper suggests that there is a diachronic explanation for this, but also argues that the contrast between externally-headed and internally-headed relative clauses is not as clear-cut as is usually assumed in the typological literature.
Stognieva O., Safonova D., Lozitskaya E., Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
This textbook is a practical and engaging guide for learners and professionals who need to communicate clearly and confidently in multicultural business environments. It offers step-by-step strategies, concise practice tasks, and regular progress checks that help readers apply intercultural communication skills directly to real workplace situations. Clear structure and focused activities make the book equally ...
Added: October 18, 2026
Ватлецов Сергей Германович, М.: ИНФРА-М, 2026.
Монография представляет собой теоретическое и лексикографическое описание зооморфной лексики в английском языке. В работе осуществлено концептуальное осмысление вербального зооморфизма, позволившее отграничить его от смежных, диффузных и пограничных языковых явлений. В сборнике английских анималистических метафор и сравнений отражается зооморфная лексика в художественной, бытовой, производственно-профессиональной сферах и сфере массовой коммуникации.
Книга адресована специалистам в области германистики, когнитивной лингвистики, ...
Added: October 18, 2026
Степанов А. Г., Slavica Tergestina. Italy 2025 Т. 35 № 2 С. 158–193
The connection of the poetic form with the content is investigated. The free verse, developed by W. Whitman in the second half of the 19th century, took root in the USSR with difficulty. In modern Russian poetry, the free verse, while preserving the aura of Western poetic culture, often combines gender and political meanings, broadcasting ...
Added: October 16, 2026
Podobryaev A., Ivlieva N., Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2026 Vol. 11 No. 1 P. 1–25
Unlike many other Turkic languages, Balkar normally demonstrates obligatory subject-verb
number agreement in finite clauses with 3rd person subjects: when a subject is plural-marked,
so is the verb. However, there are cases when the subject is not overtly plural-marked, but the
verb can be. We argue for an account where such facts are not reduced to any form ...
Added: October 15, 2026
Zenkin S., P.: Classiques Garnier, 2025.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, visual image (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.) can often be a character in literary and film plots, an element of the fictional world. Its narrative forms and functions are explored from a theoretical and comparative perspective. ...
Added: October 13, 2026
ИДВ РАН, 2026.
This paper addresses the issue perceiving the national Vietnamese costume as a tool of cultural representation in the context of official state events held in Vietnam and abroad. The study focuses on specific cases of protocol visits, meetings, forums, and beauty contests, where the ao dai and other types and elements of national clothing are ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Qiang S., Linguistic Research 2025 No. 3 P. 76–85
The determination of new words and meanings is a key issue in lexical history studies. However,
common reliance on identifying “the earliest examples” can be challenged by textual complexity and subjective
disagreements. Focusing on the emergence of the FAST meaning of kuai (快), this study proposes criteria for
identifying new meanings from the perspective of the lexical system. ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Budennaya E., Русская речь 2026 Т. 4 С. 57–78
This study analyzes non-calendar and hypocoristic Christian names
within the Russian white clergy. It identifi es two active periods of name formation using Slavic hypocoristic suffi xes: the 11th — 14th centuries (peaking
in the 12th) and the 16th — 17th centuries.
The fi rst period is tied to the general adoption of Christian names, where
diminutive forms acted ...
Added: October 11, 2026
Budennaya E., Slovĕne 2026 Т. 1 С. 31–67
The article examines Old Russian anthroponyms with the suffix -ec-, originally conveying the meaning ‘less than X’. A diachronic corpus study of
11th–17th-century texts reveals that while this suffix lacked inherent pejorative
connotations in Old Russian sources, contextual (adherent) pejoration is clearly
observable. For pre-15th-century chronicles, two primary usage patterns are
identified—1) characters with explicit negative evaluation, and 2) ...
Added: October 11, 2026
Seleznev M., Луппова А. А., Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института 2026 Т. 18 № 1(57) С. 10–35
The story of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) is one of the key episodes in the narratives of the Book of Genesis. In modern scholarship, various—often sharply divergent—datings of this pericope are proposed, as well as different interpretations of its place in the picture of the formation of the biblical text that was put ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Seleznev M., Луппова А. А., Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института 2026 Т. 18 № 2 (58) С. 322–349
Like other narratives in the Book of Genesis, the story of Cain and Abel (Gen 4:1–16) has been studied and commented upon for more than two millennia. However, recent scholarship has introduced significant revisions to traditional interpretations. Over the past five years, several monumental commentaries on Genesis 1–11 have been published, offering new—and sometimes mutually ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Seleznev M., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 3 No. 86 P. 589–592
The article reconstructs the 'biography' of an alleged (in fact, non-existent) fragment of
4QDeutq said to contain a non-Masoretic reading of Deut 32 : 8. It traces how erroneous
references to the fragment emerged during the preliminary publication of the Scrolls in the
1950s, the scholarly attention this fragment received, its eventual disappearance from Qumran
studies after the official ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Ronko R., Тимофеева В. Д., Индоиранские языки 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 117–146
The paper is devoted to the variable number marking in Shughni
nouns and reports the results of corpus and experimental studies. In some languages,
including Shughni, the marking of plural nouns is not compulsory. Many
factors such as animacy, referentiality, morphological and semantic properties,
or syntactic position may determine the presence or absence of number marking.
The corpus study investigates ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Ronko R., Zemicheva S., Труды института русского языка им. В.В. Виноградова 2026 Т. 3 № 49 С. 133–149
In the dialects of the Russian-Belarusian borderland, the verb byt’ ‘to be’ in the present tense is represented by a set of short (e, ё) and full forms (ecть, ёсць, etc.). This article investigates the variability of these forms in the dialect corpus of the village of Spiridonova Buda (Zlynkovskij District, Bryansk Region) and in ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Ronko R., RHEMA. РЕМА 2026 № 1 С. 9–20
In the introductory article to the thematic volume devoted to grammatical research on the speech of several villages, the main linguistic-geographical information about the dialect is presented, along with a description of the key methodological principles for working with the material. The dialects under study belong to the group of the Pskov dialects and border ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143
The issue delivers an analysis of schellingian motives in the later works by A.F. Losev. The author brings information about Losev’s retrospective evaluation of Schelling’s influence on the formation of his own philosophical approach, it’s specific character and it’s grade. The author shows that all the main investigation projects of the later Losev which have ...
Added: October 7, 2026
Pershkina A., Slovĕne 2026 Т. 15 № 1 С. 174–192
The article newly presents archival materials from the Directorate of Imperial Theaters relative to the organization of a crocodile exhibition held in St. Petersburg Passage department store in the autumn of 1864, along with newspaper reports on the event. The close analysis of specific articles demonstrates that this exhibition served as the direct inspiration and ...
Added: October 5, 2026
Dezi A., Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis, 2026.
This book is a metaphysical inquiry into the nature and origin of the manifold. Taking Schelling’s Erlangen lectures of 1820–1821 as its point of departure and hermeneutic horizon, it develops an interpretation of Nomos that transcends its political, juridical, and social determinations. Nomos thereby emerges as the ontological principle of an infinite, variegated multiplicity of ...
Added: October 2, 2026
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 ...
Added: July 9, 2026
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 ...
Added: November 16, 2025
Миронова Е. А., Унарокова Ш. Ш., Lander Y., RHEMA. РЕМА 2025 № 4 С. 106–139
The paper examines demonstrative systems in Ashqarawa Abaza and Temirgoy West Circassian. The study is based on an experiment using the questionnaire [Wilkins 2018], which identifies parameters affecting the choice of demonstratives. Despite certain differences, both systems are similar in that they show the relevance of distance from the speaker, association with the addressee, and ...
Added: November 8, 2025
Koile E., Moroz G., Journal of Linguistic Geography 2024 Vol. 12 No. 1 P. 24–31
Geolectal variation is often present in settings where one language is spoken across a vast geographic area. This can be found in phonological, morphosyntactic, and lexical features. For practical reasons, it is not always possible to conduct fieldwork in every single location of interest in order to obtain the full pattern of variation, and a ...
Added: May 6, 2024
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
Bagirokova I., Lander Y., В кн.: Актуальные вопросы общей и адыгской филологии : материалы Международного симпозиума, посвященного 100-летию со дня рождения профессора З.И. Керашевой.: Майкоп: Адыгейский государственный университет, 2023. С. 84–90.
В работе обсуждается особая конструкция приблизительного указания на время, включающая послелог дэжь‘около’ в сочетании с личным префиксом 3 лица множественного числа, а также факультативно маркирующая показателем множественного числа объект послелога — несмотря на его уникальную референцию. Типологически эта конструкция является промежуточной между двумя типами репрезентативной
множественности — ассоциативным и симилятивным. ...
Added: June 1, 2023