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Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity
Vol. 1: General issues and specific studies.
Berlin :
Language Science Press, 2019.
Under the general editorship: F. Di Garbo, B. Olsson, B. Wälchli
he many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. In addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, volume one contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia.
Chapters
Nichols J., , in: Grammatical gender and linguistic complexityVol. 1: General issues and specific studies.: Berlin: Language Science Press, 2019. Ch. 4 P. 63–92.
A cross-linguistic survey shows that languages with gender can have very high levels of morphological complexity, especially where gender is coexponential with case as in many Indo-European languages. If languages with gender are complex overall, apart from their gender, then gender can be regarded as an epiphenomenon of overall language complexity that tends to arise ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Файзов Д., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2026.
Новая книга Д. Файзова пронизана голосами других поэтов. Речь не о расхожей постмодернистской центонности. Это микроинтертекстуальность на уровне конкретных слов и приемов, коллаж осколков чужих голосов, однако таких осколков, которые сохраняют способность отсылать к целому и к тому же вписаны — вклеены на манер аппликации — в узнаваемую интонацию самого поэта. Данил Файзов—поэт, культуртрегер, редактор. ...
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Vinogradov A., Rodionov O., Travaux et Memoires 2026 Vol. 30 No. 2 P. 1075–1089
This article examines the manuscript tradition of Kallistos Angelikoudes’ Hesychastic consolation, a fluid and complex corpus of thirty Logoi preserved primarily in Vat. gr. 736. The authors survey all known witnesses—including the autograph Barb. gr. 420, the Lond. Arund. 520, and several later copies—and analyze their textual relationships, variant readings, and codicological features. They demonstrate ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Громенко Е. С., Krongauz M., Антропологический форум 2026 № 70 С. 163–183
The paper describes the construction litso takoy-to natsionalnosti ‘a person of such-and-such an ethnicity’ in Russian with its semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The purpose of the study is to trace the appearance of the construction and analyse how it is used and how it is perceived. Three expressions representing this construction are considered in more ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Поцелуев В. А., Ural-Altaic Studies 2026 Vol. 62 No. 3 P. 62–81
In recent years, the researchers working on Uralic languages within Minimalism seem to have built a consensus on how to define the
position of negation in any language with a negative verb. The main and usually the only argument is based on the work [Mitchell 2006].
The argument is as follows: if the negative verb expresses tense, ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Государственный университет просвещения, 2026.
Настоящее издание представляет собой коллективный труд, посвящённый юбилеям основателей-руководителей научных школ лингвистического факультета Государственного университета просвещения Максименко Ольги Ивановны, доктора филологических наук, профессора, профессора кафедры теории языка, англистики и прикладной лингвистики, Председателя
диссертационного совета 72.2.020.05 и Хухуни Георгия Теймуразовича, доктора филологических
наук, профессора, профессора кафедры теории языка, англистики и прикладной лингвистики.
Цель издания – обобщение современных достижений в ...
Added: September 29, 2026
Zevakhina N., Щипкова А. А., Chinkova A., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2025 No. 2 P. 105–122
This paper presents experimental evidence for the over-specification (redundant use) of Thai postnominal
numerals in referential communication. The first experiment reveals high rates of over-specification
in oral responses that include Thai postnominal and Russian prenominal numerals tested in a contrastive
multi-number visual context. The second experiment demonstrates lower but still relatively high
rates of over-specification in written responses that ...
Added: September 29, 2026
Мартынов А. В., Диалог со временем 2026 № 95 С. 184–193
The article is devoted to reconstructing the difficult history of the acquaintance and subsequent collaboration of Merezhkovsky, Gippius and Repin. In particular, it examines the circle of their mutual acquaintances and the influence it had on the mutual assessments of the writers and the artist, and identifies the reasons for their rather critical judgments of ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Imbault C., Slioussar N., Ivanenko A. et al., The Mental Lexicon 2026 Vol. 21 No. 1 P. 47–69
The study examines emotional responses to words representing a wide range of psychological valence and focuses on gender-related differences. We aimed to find out whether men and women differ in their emotional responses, and whether they can take the perspective of another gender. We used the slider paradigm (Warriner et al., 2017): participants saw a humanoid ...
Added: July 2, 2026
Gritsenko E., Russian Journal of Linguistics 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 55–81
Contemporary scholarly discourse on gender-inclusive communication remains predominantly descriptive, often avoiding a systematic critical analysis of its internal contradictions and social consequences. However, the growing social tension around new linguistic norms, their ideologization, and direct impact on public institutions demand unbiased examination. The aim of this article is to identify and analyze the key paradoxes ...
Added: June 12, 2026
Bayramyan R., Chulyukin K. S., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Психология и педагогика 2025 Т. 22 № 3 С. 593–613
Contemporary research increasingly highlights the need to expand the age boundaries of authenticity studies. The foundational bases of authentic thinking and the manifestation of authentic behavior are laid precisely in childhood. Schoolchildren accept and express their authenticity, among other factors, depending on the socio-cultural context. Within this framework, the value sphere gains particular significance, as ...
Added: April 14, 2026
Моторов Д. А., Христианское чтение 2025 № 3 С. 179–192
The study examines biographical aspects of the work of the Austrian- Mexican philosopher and Catholic theologian Ivan Illich in conjunction with his ideas of criticism of the modern era. Contrary to many authors believing the New Age is a stage in the development of mankind, within which the final separation of the secular and the ...
Added: March 31, 2026
Bulchenko N., INTERaction. INTERview. INTERpretation 2026 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 127–145
This article uses a case study of the first and only female railway engineer in the large northern region of contemporary Russia to examine informal gender discrimination in male-dominated industries. Despite the abolition of legal prohibitions in 2021, women remain severely underrepresented in locomotive crews due to informal barriers. Four in-depth interviews were conducted during ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Kotelnikov M., Новое литературное обозрение 2026 № 1 С. 313–318
The article explores the modern "culture of love" through the prism of sociological research by Eva Illuz, an authoritative cultural sociologist who studies the transformations of love and intimacy in late modernity. The main attention is paid to the theoretical foundations of the Illuz approach and the influence of her interpretation of the concept of ...
Added: March 20, 2026
Kotelnikov M., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2025 Т. 28 № 4 С. 146–176
The article is devoted to the analysis of socio-cultural reasons influencing the choice of "literary" specialties by young people from families with low socioeconomic status, as well as the contradictions, difficulties and advantages associated with this choice. Based on in-depth interviews with 11 informants from various cities of Russia (current and recent students), the author ...
Added: December 2, 2025
Zolotukhin V. V., Камынина М. А., Patria 2025 Т. 2 № 4 С. 69–84
This paper endeavours to provide a general overview of the minority support idea (and wokeism in general) with an accent on religious and theological issues. The article traces the background of wokeism in humanities (from Liberal Protestantism of the late 19th century to the crisis of non-classical epistemology of the first half of the 20th ...
Added: November 21, 2025
Герасимов А. А., Karachurina L. B., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Науки о Земле 2025 Т. 70 № 4 С. 662–684
Migration is one of the key factors shaping the spatial redistribution of the population and changes in its age-sex structure across different territories. Although contemporary Russian researchers have paid considerable attention to the age-related aspects of migration, sex-related differences in migration have received little scholarly focus. The purpose of this study is to assess the ...
Added: September 9, 2025
Hartmann F., Nichols J., Linguistic Typology 2025
Linguistic complexity has generally been seen as influenced by ecological, demographic, and sociolinguistic factors and has been approached by seeking correlations of increased complexity along one linguistic dimension with one or another extralinguistic factor. Here we use a multidimensional definition of phonological complexity and analyze its global patterning quantitatively across predefined continents or sets of ...
Added: July 26, 2025
Kasatkina A., Этнографическое обозрение 2024 № 6 С. 23–40
The article based on the materials of the interview with the owners of garden plots in the Leningrad region examines the effect of the discursive dimension of the modern urban household. The author proceeds from the premise that the reproduction of the household occurs in everyday communication between its participants, and it is in communication ...
Added: May 20, 2025