?
From an adverb/postposition ‘behind’ to a discourse marker: The particle reχu in Andi
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 the development of the particle: first from spatial adverb/postposition ‘behind’ to temporal adverb/postposition ‘after’, then from clause-initial ‘then’ to clause-final sequential marker, then from longer to shorter sequential marker and, finally, from enclitic sequential marker to enclitic pragmatic particle. This evolution is accompanied by semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological changes typical of grammaticalization, and is supported by both intragenetic evidence and cross-linguistic parallels.
Publication based on the results of:
Pimenova N., Satdarov K., Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка 2026 № 3 С. 49–61
The article examines the emergence of a distinctive definiteness system in Faroese, featuring two free-standing definite “adjectival” articles, tann and hin. Unlike familiar systems that distinguish “weak” and “strong” definiteness through distinct forms, the distribution of tann and hin is typically attributed to register, with hin linked to formal usage and high style. Analysis of the Faroese Gospels reveals stable and variable contexts for ...
Added: August 10, 2026
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 ...
Added: July 13, 2026
Maisak T., , in: Light Verb Constructions from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.: Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2025. P. 147–174.
The present paper aims at a description of complex verbs in Kina Rutul, a dialect of Rutul, a Nakh-Daghestanian language of the Lezgic branch spoken in southern Daghestan, Russia. The data for the study were collected during the author’s fieldwork in 2018–2023. Apart from the introduction and the conclusion, there are three main sections. In ...
Added: July 9, 2026
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 ...
Added: June 15, 2026
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
Сибилев Г. О., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2023 Т. 6 № 1 С. 112–129
he article discusses the event structure of morphological causative in Khwarshi Proper dialect of the Khwarshi language (Tsezic< Avar-Ando-Tsezic<Nakh-Daghestanian). We also analyzed the semantic parameters of the morphological causative on -χ-/-k’- and compared them with the semantic parameters of the analytical causative construction. Note that a construction with a morphological causative can be either monoeventive ...
Added: December 22, 2025
Сибилев Г. О., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2025 Т. 21 № 1 С. 163–185
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the ways speaker-oriented modality can be expressed in Khwarshi Proper (Tsezic<Avar-Ando-Tsezic<Nakh-Daghestanian). Our field data also serves to fill some data gaps in the grammatical sketch of Khwarshi Proper [Testelets, Khalilova in print]. In this article, we describe hortative, imperative, optative, preventive constructions and the jussive construction with ...
Added: December 22, 2025
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
Poliakova E., Вопросы языкознания 2024 № 4 С. 77–95
One of the common features of the Nakh-Daghestanian languages is the evidential opposition
between some of the past tense verb forms, which mark (in)direct access to the information. Khwarshi has two synthetic past forms that are traditionally considered to form this kind of opposition, but,
according to our data, it may in fact not be based on ...
Added: November 13, 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 ...
Added: September 3, 2024
van der Auwera J., Plungian V., Linguistic Typology 1998 Vol. 2 No. 1 P. 79–124
Added: November 12, 2023
Plungian V., Урманчиева А. Ю., В кн.: Opuscula linguistica Magistro sapientissimo dedicata. Сборник статей к 90-летию Виктора Самуиловича Храковского.: СПб.: Институт лингвистических исследований РАН, 2022. С. 168–178.
При общем богатстве именных пространственных показателей в нганасанском особенно выделяется система послелогов, описывающая направительные значения. Как кажется, степень дробности грамматически различаемых значений в этой области существенно превышает то, что входит в «средний типологический набор» и обычно бывает отражено в существующих типологических классификациях показателей направления движения. ...
Added: November 12, 2023
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., Journal of Endangered Languages 2023 Vol. 13 No. 22 P. 55–72
The paper presents an overview of Udi, a Nakh-Daghestanian language of the Lezgic branch and an indigenous language of Azerbaijan. After a general introduction about the Udi people and their language, I focus on the history of the study of Udi and Caucasian Albanian, on the development of modern writing systems for Udi, as well ...
Added: August 20, 2023
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 ...
Added: June 23, 2022
Apresyan V., Шмелев А. Д., В кн.: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: по материалам международной конференции «Диалог 2022», выпуск 21Вып. 21.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2022. Гл. 3 С. 18–32.
The paper is a corpus study of Russian frequency adverbs chasto ‘frequently’, zachastuju ‘often’, redko ‘rarely’, izredka ‘rarely’, etc. In Russian lexicographic tradition, frequency adverbs either lack separate entries and are explained via references to their adjectival counterparts or are treated exclusively as denotations of intervals between events. As our study demonstrates, this covers only ...
Added: June 22, 2022