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Again on nomina agentis in Tocharian B: some new observations
Tocharian and Indo-European studies. 2020. Vol. 20. P. 83–106.
Itkin I., Курицына А. В.
The Tocharian nt-participles ("active" present participles, PPA) are often considered to be in fact agent nouns; but in Tocharian B, where several types of agent nouns exist, the interaction of both formations has mostly remained unexplored. In this paper, we evaluate the morphological features and usage of the nt-participles and agent nouns in Tocharian B and argue that agent nouns in -auca are complementarily distributed with nt-participles depending on the present class of the underlying verb and thus should be treated as participles (PPA II) as well.
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 ...
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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
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. ...
Added: October 2, 2026
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
Starchenko A., Kozlov A., Белов П. А., Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка 2026 Т. 85 № 1 С. 77–97
The article examines the problem of part-speech classification and the terminological description of non-finite forms in Forest Nenets, drawing on new data from the Pur dialect. The study analyzes the system of Forest Nenets non-finite forms, which includes action nouns, participles, the gerund, the conditional form, and the supine. The analysis is carried out within ...
Added: May 4, 2026
Itkin I., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2024 No. 4 P. 121–134
The article continues the work of cataloging earlier unknown Tocharian B forms found in unpublished text fragments from the Berlin collection (“THT-fragments”), which was started in [Itkin 2022]. It includes the analysis of several dual forms (of different reliability), preterit forms, and some nominal forms that are of special interest as regards inflectional and word-formation ...
Added: March 8, 2025
Itkin I., Journal of Language Relationship 2022 No. 20/3-4 P. 177–180
In 2022 A. Huard and R. Chen independently established that words meaning ʽspleenʼ and ʽliverʼ can be reliably identified in Tocharian B. These words, spalce (Acc spalc*) ʽspleenʼ and yakär* ʽliverʼ, go back to Indo-European. In this article, we show that the names of both of these organs can be identified with the same degree ...
Added: February 17, 2024
Maria Ermolova, Russian Linguistics 2023 Т. 47 № 3 С. 323–342
The paper discusses the use of the short past active participles (PAP) in the Russian language of the 17th c. The data was collected from private letters from the 17th c. and the first Russian newspaper, Vesty-Kuranty. The function of PAP in the XVIIth c. is compared with their use in both the earlier and ...
Added: November 21, 2023
Ermolova M., Slovĕne 2022 Т. 11 № 1 С. 245–280
The article analyzes the hypothesis about the participial functioning of the l-form in the history of the Russian language in the light of Russian dialectal data and the material of the other Slavic languages. Many facts that confirm this hypothesis are found both in Russian dialects and Slavic languages. The first part of the paper ...
Added: January 27, 2023
Ю. М. Кувшинская, Н. А. Зевахина, Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2023 Т. 19 № 1 С. 138–192
The paper studies tendencies in the use of full single (i.e. without their arguments) redundant participles in the attributive position in the Russian written discourse. Relying upon the data of the Russian National Corpus and the Corpus of Russian Student Texts, as well as a number of the examples collected from various written sources, the ...
Added: December 8, 2022
Kulikov L., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2022 Т. 18 № 1 С. 179–190
The article discusses the etymology of the Greek theonym Κρόνος (Cronus), qualified by all dictionaries as etymologically unclear. I argue that this name can be considered as a member of the small class of nouns in ‑όνο‑ with agent‑instrumental semantics. Following an old proposal by H. D. Müller (later advocated by M. Janda),
I adopt the analysis of this ...
Added: November 26, 2022
Ermolova M., Slavia 2022 Т. 91 № 3 С. 283–299
The article analyzes how different discursive properties of the l-form reported in the literature correspond to the specific l-form’s contexts. The usage of the l-form in these contexts cannot be exhaustively accounted for by any discursive function which is described in the scientific literature. Some of the functions refer to the syntactic structure (it is ...
Added: November 4, 2022
Itkin I., Kratylos 2021 Vol. 1 No. 66 P. 124–148
The article is a detailed review of the monograph by the famous Indo-Europeanist R. Kim on the dual of nouns in the Tocharian languages. Along with a number of quite convincing theses, R. Kim's book also contains controversial propositions. Thus, the author's statement about the almost complete disappearance of the dual number in Tocharian A seems to be ...
Added: October 31, 2022
Orlov A., В кн.: Пятнадцатая Конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей. Тезисы докладов (Санкт-Петербург, 22-24 ноября 2018 г.).: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2018..
В русском языке релятивизация может осуществляться с помощью союзного слова который и с помощью причастного оборота. Несмотря на то, что релятивные конструкции, которые соотносятся с одним и тем же простым предложением, как правило, не демонстрируют разницы в значении, в дискурсе выбор между двумя стратегиями релятивизации не является свободным. ...
Added: June 20, 2022