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Towards a typology of specificational constructions
STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 2024. Vol. 77. No. 2. P. 189–233.
The present work is devoted to the syntax of specificational constructions with proper names within a typological perspective. The provided typology is based on the results obtained from the analysis of grammar descriptions and available corpus data for 94 languages. The paper discusses the morphosyntactic means that languages use to express specification, namely juxtaposition, attribution, and other less common strategies. It is shown that juxtapositional and attributive strategies are in competition in many of the sampled languages, so that certain expressions (for example, specificational constructions with the common noun ‘city’) prefer attributive-like coding, while others (especially constructions including personal names) show a clear tendency for juxtapositional coding cross-linguistically. Evidence from languages using an attributive strategy in specificational constructions shows that the common noun is generally the syntactic head of the construction. This conclusion contributes to the wide-scale discussion of the semantic grounds for headedness in specificational constructions. In addition, the paper shows that languages tend to place common nouns before personal proper names regardless of the word order used in specificational constructions with toponyms. This, as predicted, is correlated with the relative ordering of the head noun and its genitival dependent. The results of the present study also show that the constituent ordering in constructions with personal names implicationally depends on the order in constructions with toponyms.
Щеголькова Е. Ю., Новгородский исторический сборник 2026 Т. 21 № 31 С. 43–64
This article examines the events of 1187, when Prince Yaroslav Vladimirovich was recalled to Novgorod. He had recently been accused of "causing much harm to the Novgorod land." The article offers an explanation for the impressive length of Yaroslav's second reign, which lasted twelve years with only a short break. It argues that the story ...
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Popova A., Иностранные языки в школе 2026 № 4 С. 40–48
The article addresses the current issue of integrating generative artificial intelligence models into the educational process. The professional competence of educators in constructing queries that ensure the methodological value of generated content is of particular importance. The purpose of the article is to describe the correlation between classical didactic principles (accessibility, systematicity, individualization, etc.) and ...
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Letuchiy A., Russian Linguistics 2026 Т. 50 Статья 17
The article focuses on the analysis of a special use of the nominative-accusative form of the pronoun ėto ‘it, this’, illustrated by examples like Ėto ty ne prav ‘In this, you are wrong’. In this use, on the one hand, the pronoun corresponds to the argument of the head predicate, and, on the other hand, ...
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Елена Пенская, Slavic Literatures (ранее - Russian Literature) 2026 С. 3–46
Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903), a playwright, was ahead of his time; his harsh laughter, descriptions of absurd reality in the trilogy "Pictures of the Past" (1869) and prophecies turned out to be consonant with the turning points of the twentieth century. The synthesis of dramatic, tragic and comic (satire and farce), grotesque elements makes Sukhovo-Kobylin's plays one ...
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Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026.
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized NLP, they remain prone to hallucinations, reasoning “mode-collapse” in open-ended generation, and a lack of factual provenance. The Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) workshop addresses a key missing piece of the generative era: structured knowledge. Knowledge Bases (KBs) serve as ground truth for fact verification, the semantic backbone ...
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Buzanov A., Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка 2026 Т. 85 № 5 С. 115–127
Typologies of possessive systems usually distinguish lexical and semantic splits between inalienable and alienable possession. Much less attention has been paid to the next boundary on the extended scale, namely the boundary between alienable and super-alienable possession. This article shows that Tungusic constructions with the suffix -ŋ(V) represent a semantic realization of precisely this type ...
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Ovchinnikova A., Reznikova T., Ryzhova D. et al., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2026 Т. 22 № 1 С. 68–133
The paper describes the system of verbs of change in the Russian language against a typological background within the frame approach to lexical typology. In Russian, this system can be qualified as dominant: the imperfective verb menyat(sya)
and its prefixed perfective derivative menyat(sya) cover most of the frames in the field. At the same time, in ...
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Ryzhova D., Reznikova T., Starchenko A. et al., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2026 Т. 22 № 1 С. 11–40
The article introduces a thematic issue on the lexical typology of the semantic field ‘change’ and provides an overview of its structure and colexifi cation patterns.
The study uses a frame-based approach, under which lexical meanings are analyzed through sets of recurrent situations (frames). The core of this approach lies in investigating cross-linguistic variation by examining ...
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Starchenko A., Маринина В. В., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2026 Т. 22-1 С. 352–404
The study focuses on the semantic field ‘change’ in Northern Khanty. Based on a typological questionnaire, we present data on the use of the lexical items of the field and provide their analysis in frame semantics. We show that Northern Khanty has a dominant system in which most frames are expressed by the pɛlət- / ...
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Пинчукова А. Е., Филологический вестник 2026 Т. 5 № 5 С. 152–167
The article examines the phenomenon of humor as an effective strategy for popularizing scientific knowledge in general and medical knowledge in particular. The aim of the study is to establish mechanisms for adapting medical phenomena to the extralinguistic and linguistic features of popular science works on medical topics in English. It is noted that the ...
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Пинчукова А. Е., Современный ученый 2026 № 11 С. 190–202
The article analyzes strategies for popularizing medicine in the context of a rapidly developing literary genre. The aim of the study is to identify ways to adapt medical knowledge to the stylistic and pragmatic features of nonfiction works on medical topics, used by science communicators with different professional backgrounds. The article examines the genre of ...
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Душакова Н., Фольклор: структура, типология, семиотика 2025 Т. 8 № 4 С. 145–159
Цифровая среда может выступать не только каналом трансмиссии устной памяти или хранилищем разрозненных воспоминаний, целенаправленно или стихийно создаваемых каждым, кто пользуется смартфоном. Как и устная память, выделяемая современными исследователями «память цифровая» представляет собой активный процесс, на который влияют самые разные факторы (от контекста размещения оцифрованных или изначально цифровых данных до надежности инфраструктуры и заинтересованности отдельных ...
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Nagornaya A., M.: ФЛИНТА, 2026.
This textbook is intended for students pursuing degrees in linguistics with an advanced level of English proficiency (C1–C2) and aims to develop their professional communicative competence in academic and intercultural contexts. It focuses on key sociocultural trends of the twenty-first century, including metamodernism, celebritism, achievement culture, neo-consumerism, changing perceptions of time, the emotionalization of society, ...
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Slioussar N., Antropova D., В кн.: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог». Выпуск 24Issue 24.: M.: Max press, 2026. С. 590–597.
Agreement feature processing is one of the core issues of psycholinguistics. Previous studies mainly focused on number and gender features and obtained controversial results: in some studies, gender was more salient in processing, while in others number was more salient. The studies relied on different languages, used different constructions and different methods. The goal of ...
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Shumilin M., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 769–790
In the article, a reconsideration of Biagio Garofalo’s treatise “Considerations regarding the Poetry of the Hebrews and the Greeks” (Considerazioni intorno alla poesia degli Ebrei, e de i Greci, 1707) is proposed inscribing it in the context of European discussions of “natural word order” in the 17th and 18th centuries. The treatise is more often ...
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Natalia N. Logvinova, , in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online.: Brill, 2026. Ch. 11.
Two types of appositional phrases are distinguished in Slavic languages: close and loose. With close constructions, the issues of syntactic headedness and optional case concord between the parts are discussed. Loose appositions are functionally different from close appositions, having a role comparable to secondary predication. ...
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Л. И. Чубарова, М. О. Бажуков, Н. А. Слюсарь et al., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2022 Т. 5 № 2 С. 101–123
В работе рассматривается порядок дативных дополнений в связи с их аргументным статусом вслед за гипотезой, сформулированной в [Boneh, Nash 2017]. Согласно этой гипотезе, локативные (аргументные) дополнения расположены в синтаксической структуре ниже прямых дополнений, а бенефактивные (неаргументные) выше, отчего ожидается, что базовым порядком слов будут V-DO-IO и V-IO-DO соответственно. Контролируя другие параметры, влияющие на порядок дополнений ...
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Pisarenko D., В кн.: Малые языки в большой лингвистике. Сборник трудов конференции 2020.: М.: Буки Веди, 2020. С. 181–185.
Статья посвящена маркированию множественного числа в севернохантыйском языке (казымский диалект) и факторам, влияющим на наличие или отсутствие числового показателя на существительном. ...
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Letuchiy A., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология 2022 № 76 С. 105–147
The article focuses on the function and classification of Russian
‘predicatives’ (non-verbal predicates), such as uyutno ‘(it is) cosy’, nepriyatno ‘(it is)
unpleasant’ and kholodno ‘(it is) cold’. The main problem I am solving is why the
third element of the attributive system, besides adjectives and adverbials, is necessary.
In the end, I conclude that predicatives have common properties ...
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Lander Y., Linguistics 2022 Vol. 60 No. 3 P. 809–828
This paper focuses on the noun phrase in Tanti Dargwa (East Caucasian) and presents evidence for the distinction between modifiers proper (adjectival phrases, participial relative clauses and non-genitive adnominal NPs) and determiner-like elements (demonstratives, indefinite pronouns, numerals and most quantity expressions) in this language. Crucially, this dichotomy, which presumably reflects the distinction between the determinative ...
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Levshina N., Namboodiripad S., Allassonnière-Tang M. et al., Linguistics 2023 Vol. 61 No. 4 P. 825–883
This paper argues for a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order preferences, both within and across languages, as a continuous variable. Word order variability should be regarded as a basic assumption, rather than as something exceptional. Although this approach follows naturally from the emergentist usage-based view of language, we argue that it ...
Added: October 12, 2021
Cheremisinova M., / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2020. No. 104.
This paper focuses on semantics and syntax of two attributivizers in Kazym Khanty. Both of the attributivizers have proprietive semantics and attach to a small nominal rather than a full DP. Proprietives are not completely interchangeable, therefore the difference between them is also explored in this paper. Moreover, we are going to show that both ...
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Yury Lander, , in: Headedness and/or Grammatical Anarchy?.: Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. P. 27–51.
This paper develops the claim that head properties arise (at least) due to one of the three factors: (i) the higher position of an element in a compositional structure, (ii) the informational prominence, and (iii) the development of a construction from an appositive(-like) structure. These factors are logically independent and may lead to the assignment of head properties ...
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Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022.
The contributions in this volume provide new empirical findings bearing on phenomena that challenge the conception of grammatical heads and/or discuss the notion of head/headedness and its consequences for grammatical theory in a more abstract way. The collected papers view the topic from diverse theoretical perspectives (among others HPSG, Generative Syntax, Optimality Theory) and different ...
Added: August 21, 2020