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Valency patterns in Mande: Contact vs inheritance
Studies in Language. 2025. Vol. 49. No. 4. P. 823–857.
In this paper, we address valency patterns in seven Mande languages with various degrees of genealogical proximity. Our study is based on the BivalTyp questionnaire focusing on 130 two-place predicates (Say 2020). While belonging to two distinct genetic groupings, two languages of the set, i.e. Mano (Southern Mande) and Kpelle (Southwestern Mande), are in intense contact with one another. We found that although Mano verbal stems are virtually unaffected by contact, the patterns of valency expression, including construction types and choice of postposition, but also the semantics of complex verbs are strongly influenced by Kpelle. This study thus adds further evidence for the predominance of pattern borrowing in multilingual settings.
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Logvinova N., Russian linguistics 2026 Vol. 50 Article 11
This paper presents the first in-depth corpus-based study of a previously overlooked syntactic variation in Russian: the competition between juxtapositional (Nominative) and possessive-like (Genitive) encoding of the second noun (the term) in specificational constructions (e.g., ponjatie čest’ (notion.NOM honor.NOM) vs. ponjatie česti (notion.NOMhonor.GEN) ‘the notion of honor’). While typological research has established cross-linguistic preferences for one encoding strategy over another, intralinguistic variation ...
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Зелинская Ю. Ю., Когнитивные исследования языка 2025 № 4(65) С. 180–186
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Fedorov D., Jezikoslovni Zapiski 2026 Т. 32 № 1 С. 23–52
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Gabrielova E., Максименко О. И., Социальные и гуманитарные науки на Дальнем Востоке 2026 Т. 23 № 1 С. 241–249
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Velichkov B., Nikolova-Koleva I., Slavcheva M., Shumen: INCOMA Ltd, 2025.
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Кульков А. Н., Tsvetkova M. V., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология 2026 № 100 С. 158–173
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Gridneva E., Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Filologiya 2026 No. 100 P. 38–52
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Керимов Р. Э., Новое прошлое 2026 № 1 С. 148–162
The arrest of East German writer and publishing director Günter Hofé at the 1963 Frankfurt Book Fair became a unique episode of ideological confrontation between East and West Germany. Hofé is primarily known for his documentary-fiction trilogy about World War II, in which he actively participated as a Wehrmacht soldier. The analysis of the writer’s ...
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Максимов И. В., Новый филологический вестник 2025 Т. 73 № 2 С. 187–196
The majority of studies on the metrical aspects of Olga Sedakova’s poetry focus on the formal elements of versification, rarely exploring the substantive possibilities of the chosen metres. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the unified narrative of the four-foot amphibrach, tracing its development in Russian poetry from V.A. Zhukovsky to O.A. Sedakova. At ...
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Yakovleva A., Kosheliuk N., Moroz G., International Journal of Bilingualism 2025 P. 1–19
Aims and Research Questions: In this paper, we present a corpus-based study of preposition drop (p-drop) in the speech of Mari-Russian and Beserman-Russian bilinguals compared to the speech of Russian monolinguals. Based on data from spoken corpora, we demonstrate that the prepositions v ‘in’, k ‘to’, s ‘with’ are omitted in the speech of bilinguals ...
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Savelyev A., Вопросы языкового родства 2025 № 23/1-2 С. 137–167
This article represents the first part of a two-part study devoted to the analysis of Turkic loanwords of the Bulghar-Chuvash type in the Permic languages. In this part, general criteria are proposed for distinguishing Bulgharic borrowings within the corpus of Udmurt and Komi words of Turkic origin. In addition, a “core” layer of Bulghar-Chuvash loanwords ...
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Khachaturyan M., Konoshenko M., Moroz G. et al., , in: N’yng-dyuumgu, n’yng-ngafq: Festschrift for Ekaterina GruzdevaVol. 126.: Helsinki: Studia Orientalia, 2025. P. 35–59.
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Shvedova E., Koryakov Y., Elizaveta Zabelina, Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3–4 P. 207–275
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Grishanova A., Russian linguistics 2025 Vol. 49 Article 10
The purpose of this study is to present a summary of morphosyntactic variation and a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of preposition drop in the Russian speech of Chuvash bilinguals. Specifically, I investigate what underlying factors might condition the variation. I conduct a qualitative analysis of the data extracted from the corpus of Russian spoken ...
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Khachaturyan M., Moroz G., Mamy P., Journal of Sociolinguistics 2025 Vol. 29 No. 4 P. 268–284
This paper contributes to research on the awareness of grammatical variability through a study of variation in reflexivity marking in Mano under the influence of Kpelle, both indigenous languages of Guinea. The speakers of these languages are found to be sensitive to contact-induced grammatical variation in reflexivity, which manifests via variation in comprehension patterns and, ...
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Naccarato C., Moroz G., International Journal of Bilingualism 2026 Vol. 30 No. 2 P. 358–379
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Khachaturyan M., Moroz G., Mamy P., Linguistics 2024 Vol. 62 No. 5 P. 1225–1250
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Häberl C. G., Kashintseva K., Loesov S., , in: Language Diversity in Iran: New Texts and Perspectives from Non-Iranian Languages.: De Gruyter, 2024. Ch. 8 P. 285–358.
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The current companion will offer a survey of the Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic languages in contact with Iranian languages. Comparatively few of Iran's minority languages are well-documented or even widely known outside of a small cadre of specialists. A volume that organizes sketches of the non-Iranian languages of Iran offers a unique perspective on ...
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СПб.: Институт лингвистических исследований РАН, 2023.
This book is a collection of articles dedicated to the memory of Alexandra (Sasha) Vydrina. The volume begins with two tribute pieces. The second section contains three previously unpublished manuscripts by Sasha, as well as a list of her publications. The final section is an assemblage of fourteen pieces dedicated to Sasha, inspired by her, and written on ...
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Ter-Avanesova A., Daniel M., Linguistic Variation 2023 No. 1 P. 28–74
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Zakirova A., Родной язык: лингвистический журнал 2022 № 1 С. 5–49
This paper provides a survey of number agreement in the East Caucasian languages and languages of other language families in contact with East Caucasian. For a sample of 59 idioms I considered number agreement strategies of adjectives in the attributive position and established what factors license agreement in these idioms. Besides, I assessed the weight ...
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