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Grammaticalization in Lezgic (East Caucasian)
Ch. 6. P. 309–360.
The chapter presents an overview of grammaticalization processes in the Lezgic languages, which constitute a group of the East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) family.
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Vol. 1: Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia. , Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020.
Kozlov A., Лапшина К. М., Вопросы языкознания 2026 № 4 С. 132–146
This article examines two functions of the suffix -samae in the Pur dialect of Forest Nenets based on fieldwork data: comitative (expression of jointness: ‘with X’) and scalar additive (focus particle with the meaning ‘even X’). The comitative use of the suffix -samae primarily marks an inanimate companion. However, its use is also possible with other types ...
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Pimenova N., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 30 № 2 С. 313–322
The article examines instances of inconsistent anaphoric article usage in the Gothic language. Gothic (4th century CE, East Germanic) exemplifies a language at the initial anaphoric stage of article grammaticalization, where the proto-article pronoun should appear consistently after a referent's first mention—yet violations occur. Beyond literature-documented cases involving locative nouns and terms for ‘multitudes’ of animate ...
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Reznikova T., Анисимов А. Д., Русский язык в научном освещении 2025 № 1(49) С. 37–61
В статье рассматривается конструкция, состоящая из императивной формы глагола и отрицательного оборота не хочу (Vimp — не хочу), и ее развитие с XIX в., когда она впервые встречается в Национальном корпусе русского языка. Для ранних реализаций конструкции характерен ограниченный набор глаголов, выступающих в императивной позиции (прежде всего ешь и пей), тем самым выражение в этот период может быть квалифицировано как ...
Added: February 24, 2026
Падалка П. В., Ryzhova D., Чистякова Д. Г., Вопросы языкознания 2026 № 1 С. 40–58
The article is dedicated to the morphosyntactic properties and grammatical functions of the Shughni marker -ard. Shughni, like many other Iranian languages, has a reduced case system that seems to be gradually evolving and expanding. We demonstrate that the marker -ard is one of the main candidates for the status of a new case marker ...
Added: January 21, 2026
Sieber I., Starchenko A., Вопросы языкознания 2026 № 1 С. 105–135
The paper examines two interrelated topics from Chukchi phonetics: the status of the glottal stop as a segment or prosody and the rules for stem doubling in incomplete reduplications that form the nominative singular. We create a database comprising 181 inflectional reduplications. Reduplications containing a glottal stop and therefore located “at the junction” of these ...
Added: January 15, 2026
Новокшанов Д. А., Индоиранские языки 2025 Т. 1 № 2 С. 61–81
The article highlights the main semantic and grammatical properties of locative nouns claiming the status of relational nouns in Shughni (an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Pamirs). Firstly, I identify the main nouns belonging to this category on the basis of available grammars and examples from D. Karamshoev’s Shughni–Russian dictionary and the Shughni corpus. ...
Added: November 28, 2025
Filatov K., Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка 2025 Т. 84 № 1 С. 101–113
This paper discusses two cases of suppletive allomorphy in Anchiq Karata and Chamalal languages. We analyze two diachronic scenarios that explain the development of suppletive allomorphy in perfective converb morphology. We introduce the concept of systemic effects, which are structural and substantive factors that impact the grammaticalization process. The case studies demonstrate that suppletive allomorphy ...
Added: October 15, 2024
Казкенова А. К., Rakhilina E. V., Russian Linguistics 2024 Т. 48 № 1 Статья 16
This paper focuses on comparing the grammaticalization of nonfinite verbal forms in Russian and Kazakh. As an example, we chose the forms of the visual perception verbs smotret’, glyadet’ and qara-; on the basis of these verbs, groups of function words with conditional, unconditional, and concessional semantics were formed in both languages. This study starts ...
Added: September 9, 2024
Maisak T., Verhees S., Folia Linguistica 2024 Vol. 58 No. s45-s1 P. 185–220
Andi (East Caucasian) features a verb form that marks an event that is (still) not happening, contrary to the speaker’s expectation (i.e. ‘Still Not’ Present). This form is unusual for several reasons. First, forms of this kind are not typical for the language family. Second, while it conveys negative semantics, the form does not contain ...
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van der Auwera J., Plungian V., Linguistic Typology 1998 Vol. 2 No. 1 P. 79–124
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Vladimir Plungian, Åkerman Sarkisian K., Scando-Slavica 2023 Т. 69 № 1 С. 3–24
The so-called acquisitive modality or actuality, describing a successful realization of an action, is a largely understudied type of modal values. It is of significant interest both from the viewpoint of its grammaticalization paths and of a wide and rich variety of its lexical expression. The article discusses one of the main representatives of this ...
Added: November 8, 2023
Maisak T., , in: Discourse phenomena in typological perspective.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. Ch. 5 P. 93–133.
The paper describes two uses of the discourse particle reχu in Andi (Nakh-Daghestanian, Avar-Andic), namely the consecutive, or sequential, use found in the non-final clauses of multiclausal sentences and reinforcing the idea of temporal sequence (‘and then’), and the pragmatic use with retrospective contrastive meaning, predominantly found in imperatives and questions. A diachronic scenario is proposed for ...
Added: August 20, 2023
Melenchenko M., В кн.: Девятнадцатая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей: тезисы докладов.: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2022. С. 81–84.
The talk is dedicated to some problems of diachronic development of numeral systems in Lezgic languages. ...
Added: December 5, 2022
Durymanova A., Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: История, филология 2022 Т. 21 № 4 С. 114–127
The paper deals with some features of Late Classical Chinese based on material from «Lunheng» (1st century AD), specifically, the process of 被 bèi grammaticalization and its possibility to be a distinctive context for noun lexemes. In modern Chinese, 被 bèi is a passive marker in sentences such as O 被 bèi SV. There is ...
Added: August 18, 2022
Stiopa Mikhailov, Ural-Altaic Studies 2024 No. 4(55) P. 31–56
Uralic possessive agreement suffixes often develop determiner-like functions. Several authors have suggested monosemic analyses of such functions as derived from the basic possessive meaning. However, recent studies have argued that the functions they investigate must be treated as synchronically independent markers because they do not behave morphosyntactically in the same way that their corresponding proper ...
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Vinyar A., Kazakova T., Popova Varvara et al., , in: Восемнадцатая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей. Тезисы докладов (Санкт-Петербург, 25–27 ноября 2021 г.).: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2021. Ch. 61 P. 258–261.
This paper is dedicated to the system of /a/-/i/ apophony in Northern Tungusic denominal verbalizers. ...
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Maisak T., , in: The Perfect Volume: Papers on the PerfectVol. 217.: Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. Ch. 4 P. 88–115.
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Постникова А. Е., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2021 Т. 3 № 2 С. 147–165
This article presents the results of a typological study of evidential systems in ninety two natural languages. The paper suggests some tendencies concerning the coding of evidentiality; it also considers the relationship between the grammaticalization and the semantics of evidential markers. ...
Added: February 11, 2021
Mukhin T., / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2020. No. 100.
This paper describes numerals in Rutul (Lezgic, East Caucasian). The data presented here were collected during fieldwork in the village of Kina (Rutul district, Republic of Dagestan, Russia) in 2016 to 2019. ...
Added: December 11, 2020
Филатов К. В., / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2020. No. 99.
The paper provides a description of nominal inflection in Kina Rutul, a variety of the Rutul language (< Lezgic < Nakh Daghestanian). The description is based on three concepts of paradigmatic classification: class of inflectional equivalence, inflectional type and paradigmatic effect. Class of inflectional equivalence describes main patterns of concatenation between root, case / number ...
Added: December 10, 2020