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Lability and spontaneity
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In my article, I address the factors which favor using a verb as labile (both transitive and intransitive, with no formal change required).
Haspelmath (1993) proposes that the key feature which conditions a way of marking (in)transitivity of verbs in the transitive / intransitive verb pair is the spontaneity parameter.
However, the statistical analysis of Haspelmath’s data shows that for labile / ambitransitive verb the main parameter is the lexical semantic class of the verb, not the degree of spontaneity. This lets us discover a more general principle: phenomena which are not purely grammatical, but rather lexico-grammatical (as lability) depend on lexical features, not on generalized grammatical or semantic parameters.
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Stenin I., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 4 P. 86–111
The article examines causativization strategies in Amguema Chukchi. It focuses primarily on the morphological causative marked by the prefix r- (-n-), which can be derived freely from patientive and experiential intransitive predicates. Only certain classes of agentive intransitive predicates, such as change-of-posture and ingestive verbs, form the proper causative. With most other agentive intransitive verbs, ...
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Obukhov A., Маерле М. А., Минаева Е. И., Исследователь/Researcher 2025 № 3-4 С. 282–299
The article presents a preliminary synthesis of materials from an expedition conducted in the Ulyunkhan ulus, an Evenk
settlement in the Kurumkansky District of the Republic of Buryatia, in 2025, comparing them with materials from a 2005 expedition. The study focuses on the changes over the past twenty years as perceived by the local residents themselves (Buryats and Evenks). It compares ...
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Melenchenko M., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2024 Т. 7 № 1 С. 64–88
“Defective” verb žīwǰ ‘love’ in Shughni only has the Perfect stem, but lacks Present and Preterite stems. Instead, to express these tenses, Shughni uses complex verbs with auxiliary verbs čīdow ‘do’ and vidow ‘be’. This paper attempts to describe the distribution of three constructions: the independent žīwǰ and the two complex verbs which use it, ...
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Grünthal R., Arjava H., Lehtinen J. et al., , in: Valency over Time: Diachronic Perspectives on Valency Patterns and Valency Orientation.: Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. Ch. 7 P. 209–234.
This paper presents the formation of causative verbs and different causativization strategies in the Uralic languages as evidenced by six verb sets in 22 languages. The sample is a selection of basic verbs from a larger database including altogether 21 non-causal and causal verb pairs based on a slightly revised version of Nichols, Peterson and ...
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Yulia Tyumeneva, Sudorgina Y., Basic and Applied Social Psychology 2024 Vol. 46 No. 5 P. 314–320
Likert scales rely on the assumption that psychological attributes are ordinal, meaning that the attribute levels a, b, and c are in transitive relations. Testing transitivity is possible through pairwise comparisons of attribute levels. Previous tests showed that people can violate transitivity, which calls into question the basic assumption of rating scales. We hypothesized that ...
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Чистякова Д. Г., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2022 Т. 5 № 2 С. 84–100
Many Iranian languages have developed differential object marking (DOM). Since many languages have lost case inflection, special markers were used to mark a direct object. In different Iranian languages, DOM may depend on different factors: specificity hierarchy; tense and aspect or information structure [Windfuhr 2009: 33; Bossong 1985]. In Shughni special marking of an object ...
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Arzhantsev I., Zaitseva Y., Research in Mathematical Sciences 2024 Vol. 11 No. 2 Article 27
An algebraic variety X is called a homogeneous variety if the automorphism group Aut(X) acts on X transitively, and a homogeneous space if there exists a transitive action of an algebraic group on X. We prove a criterion of smoothness of a suspension to construct a wide class of homogeneous varieties. As an application, we ...
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Plungian V., Подгорная А. Д., Studia Slavica 2022 Т. 67 № 1-2 С. 115–131
В статье рассматриваются конструкции с функцией «понижения агенса» и их переводные эквиваленты на материале параллельного корпуса романа М. А. Булгакова «Мастер и Маргарита» в переводах на польский, чешский, болгарский, сербский и немецкий языки. Под данным ярлыком объединяются средства, лишающие агенс привилегированного коммуникативного статуса, что проявляется в его реализации в нехарактерной синтаксической позиции, полном опущении или ...
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Strizhak U., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 13: Востоковедение 2022 № 4 С. 46–60
В статье анализируется понимание агентивности японскими лингвистами как в ходе исторического становления данного понятия, так и в контексте функционирования этой семантической категории в японском языке на современном этапе. Агентивность является важной языковой универсалией, влияющей на формирование как глубинных, так и поверхностных синтаксических структур, в итоге определяя характеристику любого языкового высказывания. Недостаточная степень изученности данного понятия ...
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Stenin I., Вопросы языкознания 2023 № 4 С. 21–46
The article deals with the verbs formed with the unproductive marker -ra / -rye in Tundra Nenets. Such verbs are intransitive, perfective, and are inflected, as a rule, in the forms of the reflexive conjugation. Morphosyntactically, the function of this marker in combination with transitive verbs can be considered passive. The addition of the marker is also possible for ...
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Kulikov L., , in: Quand le syntagme nominal prend ses marques: Du prédicat à l’argument: Hommage à Marleen Van Peteghem.: Editions et Presses Universitaires de Reims, 2022. P. 191–216.
This article deals with the history of oppositions of transitivity and the evolution of the system of labile verbs (verbs which admit changes in transitivity without formal change of the verb, cf. La clé tourna dans la serrure ~ Pierre tourna la clé dans la serrure). It focuses on the evolution of labile verb systems ...
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Arkadiev P., Letuchiy A., , in: Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions.: Philadelphia, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. Ch. 15 P. 483–514.
The article focuses on antipassive formation in Adyghe and Kabardian (Circassian < West Caucasian), polysynthetic languages with ergative alignment of basic morphosyntax. The Circassian antipassive is typologically unusual in several respects. First, it is derived not only from transitive, but also from intransitive verbs: in these cases, it eliminates the indirect object. Thus, antipassive in ...
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Philadelphia, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen contributions assembled in this volume address a wide range of aspects pertinent to the antipassive construction, such as lexical semantics, the properties of the antipassive markers, as well as the issue ...
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Tyumeneva Y. A., Sudorgina Y., Kislyonkova A. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2022 No. 13 Article 942593
Measuring psychological attributes, such as motivation, typically involves rating scales, assuming that an attribute can be ordered, and that ratings represent this order. Previously, only the first assumption had been tested, albeit limited. First, we checked the ordinal structure of motivation, looking at whether people can establish transitive relations between motivation levels in pairwise comparisons; ...
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Grines V., Zhuzhoma E. V., M., Izhevsk: -, 2021.
This book is meant to be a graduate or undergraduate textbook and partly a monograph on the subject. The book summarizes the many years researches by the authors in Theory of Dynamical Systems. ...
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Tyumeneva Y. A., Vergeles K., Frontiers in Psychology 2021 No. 12 Article 632991
Measures of psychological attributes, such as motivation, typically involve rating scales, assuming that an attribute can be ordered. If an attribute has an ordinal structure, its levels stand in ordinal relations to one another, and these must be transitive. We tested if transitivity is preserved when people compare different motives in terms of their importance ...
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Tyumeneva Y. A., Вергелес К. П., Социологический журнал 2021 Т. 27 № 2 С. 8–24
Measurement in social sciences implies that the measured feature is quantitative, or
in other words that it is possible not only to arrange the values of any given attribute, but also
to express the difference between ordered magnitudes using a certain unit of measurement.
However the need to verify this basic assumption is often ignored. And though there ...
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Lavidas N., Kulikov L., , in: Reconstructing Syntax.: Leiden: Brill, 2020. Ch. 7 P. 289–313.
The aim of this article is to examine the directionality of change in Voice in relation to Tense/Aspect, foremost based on evidence from Greek as well as additional evidence from Early Vedic. Starting with the hypothesis that in (standard) Proto-Indo-European a number of innovations resulted in the introduction of some elements of the
Perfect-Stative inflection into the Present ...
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