Books by Peter Arkadiev
Монография является первым обобщающим типологическим исследованием префиксальной перфективации — ... more Монография является первым обобщающим типологическим исследованием префиксальной перфективации — феномена, до сих пор получившего подробное освещение лишь в славянских языках. В книге на синхронном уровне рассматривается материал славянских и балтийских языков, идиша, немецкого, венгерского, осетинского, а также картвельских языков — грузинского, сванского, мегрельского и лазского. Подробно изучаются морфологические свойства глагольных префиксов (превербов), их семантика, особенности семантики и функционирования превербных глаголов, устройство аспектуальных систем. Полученные эмпирические данные подвергаются количественному анализу, позволяющему выделить две области кластеризации систем префиксального перфектива — славянскую и кавказскую, — различающиеся набором харак-теризующих их признаков. Отдельно исследуются диахрония систем превербов и перфективации в рассматриваемых языковых семьях, возможные типологические параллели в других ареалах и типы наблюдаемых в этой области контактных явлений, для чего привлекается материал ряда миноритарных идиомов (цыганских, славянских, балтийских, балканороманских, финно-угорских). Делаются эмпирически обоснованные выводы о соотношении генетически унаследованного, универсально-типологического и контактного в наблюдаемом ареальном распределении систем префиксального перфектива в языках Центральной и Восточной Европы и Кавказа.
Edited books by Peter Arkadiev
Архитектура клаузы в параметрических моделях: синтаксис, информационная структура, порядок слов. /А.В.Циммерлинг, Е.А.Лютикова (ред.). Москва: Языки славянской культуры. Studia Philologica, 2016. 608 с.
See the content of the collective monograph 'Clause Architecture in the Parametric Models: Syntax... more See the content of the collective monograph 'Clause Architecture in the Parametric Models: Syntax, Information Structure, Word Order' (Anton Zimmerling & Ekaterina Lyutikova, eds.), to be published 2016 in Russian, by the Publishing House LRC 'Languages of Russian Culture'.
The summary is below.
This collective monograph is prepared by a group of Russian linguists sharing the interest to typology, formal models of grammar and interface phenomena. The authors aim at establishing universal and language-specific mechanisms of communicative marking and information ordering. We implement methods of parametric typology and aim at explaining complex multi-layered phenomena in terms of feature combinations which set out both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The developed model of the communicative-syntactic interface is defined for an open class of world's languages which apply to word order alternations, shifting in accent markings and morphosyntactic marking as means of encoding information structure.
The focus of our research interest is in the interaction of formal syntax and information structure and on word order systems of scrambling languages which are described in terms of linear-accent transformations, i.e. rules which at once change linear position and communicative status/accent marking of sentence elements. Most authors share the derivational approach to word order systems and work out the hypothesis that some basic word order can be established for scrambling languages too. Within the derivational approach, word order alternations can be explained at the level of narrow syntax, s(yntactic)-structure, cf. Chapters 4, 13 and 15, as well as on the level of c-(ommunicative) structure, cf. Chapters 1, 3 and 7.
Parametrization of language diversity is a dynamic research field in the linguistics of late XX – XXI centuries. In this particular field, adepts of formal and functional frameworks have many shared research issues and the dialogue between different schools in linguistics can be fruitful. These considerations have shaped the methodological component of the present monograph. Syntactic and communicative phenomena of different world's languages are parametrized, which gives a chance to reveal basic principles underlying them and to understand their role in the integral models of the natural language. The book consists of three parts. Chapter 1 “Clause Architecture and Information Structure” (Ekaterina Lyutikova & Anton Zimmerling) sets the general perspective.
Part I is devoted to the interaction of grammatical and communicative mechanisms relevant for the clause architecture. Chapters 2 “Communicative Structure and Linear-Accent Transformations” (Elena Paducheva) and 3 “Linear-Accent Grammar and Thetic Sentences in Russian” (Anton Zimmerling) introduce the notion of linear-accent transformations (LA-transformations) and investigate the potential of LA-grammars for the analysis of Russian and comparable data. Chapter 4 “Low Left Periphery in Hittite: a Formal Analysis” (Andrey Sideltsev) aims at modeling the complex interactions of grammar-internal and communicative aspects of Hittite word order and clause architecture. Chapter 5 “A Multilevel Theory of Clause Combining: Ossetic and Russian Revisited” (Oleg Belyaev), discusses the strategies of clause combined in Ossetic. Chapter 6 “Verbal Reprise in Irish” (Maria Shkapa) is devoted to one non-trivial communicative operation which becomes possible due to language-specific settings of the clause architecture.
Part II is devoted to issues in clitic studies. Chapter 7 “Clause structure, linear-accent transformations and clitics in Middle Norwegian” (Anton Zimmerling) sets the issues of clitic ordering in a more general context of clause structure ordering. Chapters 8 “The Syntax of Dative clitics in South Slavic lnaguages” (Galina Petrova & Elena Ivanova) and 9 “Bulgarian clitics” (Elena Ivanova) solve the problems of parametric description of clitics and the interactions of clitic ordering with communicative structure on the basis of several South Slavic languages. Chapter 10 “On Russian endoclitics” (Peter Arkadiev) raises a hypothesis that Russian primary prepositions are endoclitics. Finally, chapter 11 “Impersonal Sentences with an Obligatory Pronominal Experiencer in Bulgarian” (Elena Ivanova) is devoted to a non-trivial interaction of grammar and prosody in Bulgarian, where the presence of clause-level clitics (i.e. a particular type of prosodic structure) is mapped to a particular type of sentence constructions.
Part III includes chapters devoted to parametric modeling of the basic morphosyntactic mechanisms underlying clause structure — case and agreement. Chapter 12 “Case theory in the Perspective of Case Variation” (Ekaterina Lyutikova & Dilya Ibatullina) discusses mechanisms of case assignment and their parametrization with respect to the case source, agreement and mapping of syntactic and morphological case. The discussion of a non-trivial interaction between subject case marking and predicate agreement is continued in chapter 13 “(Non) agreement of participles and Two Constructions with Non-nominative Subjects in Lithuanian” (Peter Arkadiev). Chapter 14 “The Structural Position of the Direct Object and Information Structure: a view from Pechora dialect of Komi-Zyrian” (Natalia Serdobolskaya & Svetlana Toldova) discusses the interaction of grammatical, referential and communicative factors with the so called differential object marking. Chapter 15 “Syntactic and Semantic Typology of Genitives — the Genitive of Quality as a Locus of Adjectival Features, a View from Russian” (Pavel Graschenkov) is devoted to a non-trivial mapping of syntax and semantic interpretation in constructions with the genetive of quality; this mapping sheds light on their on the special status of this construction in the perspective of word order and branching conditions. Chapter 16 “Person Agreement in the Dargic Languages: an OT and LFG Analysis” (Oleg Belyaev) offers analysis of person agreement mechanisms in terms of two formal frameworks.
Ed. by Peter Arkadiev, Jurgis Pakerys, Inesa Šeškauskienė, Vaiva Žeimantienė. Vilnius University ... more Ed. by Peter Arkadiev, Jurgis Pakerys, Inesa Šeškauskienė, Vaiva Žeimantienė. Vilnius University Open Series Vol. 16. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2021.
Arkadiev, Peter & Francesco Gardani (eds). 2020. The complexities of morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press., 2020
This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating primarily wh... more This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than others, and how that complexity can be measured. The book opens with a detailed introduction from the editors that critically assesses the foundational assumptions that inform contemporary approaches to morphological complexity. In the chapters that follow, the volume's expert contributors approach the topic from typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives; the concluding chapter offers an overview of these various approaches, with a focus on the minimum description length principle. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from both well-known languages such as Russian and lesser-studied languages from Africa, Australia, and the Americas, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.
М.: «Индрик», 2007. — 752 с., 2007
В сборнике представлены результаты системного лексико-типологического исследования, выполненного ... more В сборнике представлены результаты системного лексико-типологического исследования, выполненного на широком языковом материале: на основе единой анкеты описана семантическая зона движения и нахождения в воде (зона плавания, или aquamotion) для более чем сорока языков, представляющих самые разные языковые семьи и ареалы — славянские, балтийские, романские, германские, уральские, тюркские, семитские, кавказские, африканские и др. Статьи написаны специалистами по соответствующим языкам на материале полевых и корпусных исследований. Выделены семантические параметры, типологически значимые для зоны плавания, установлены основные типы метафорических переходов в данной области.
Описаны общие принципы построения семантической типологии, которые могут быть применены к любому лексическому материалу. Книга адресована широкому кругу лингвистов, в первую очередь специалистам по семантике и типологии.
Т. А. Майсак, В. А. Плунгян, Кс. П. Семёнова (ред.). Исследования по теории грамматики. Выпуск 7: Типология перфекта. СПб.: Наука (Acta Linguistiica Petropolitana XII: 2), 2016
This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithu... more This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the study of the Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.
A Festschrift for Barbara Partee edited by her Russian colleagues, students and friends.
Baltic Linguistics is an international forum for contemporary linguistic research into the Baltic... more Baltic Linguistics is an international forum for contemporary linguistic research into the Baltic languages, mainly Lithuanian and Latvian. Its aim it to serve as a bridge between researchers in and outside the Baltic countries. The journal publishes contributions of theoretical and/or empirical interest focusing on the Baltic languages, as well as reviews of important publications in the field of Baltic linguistics. Its thematic range encompasses both synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Apart from the requirements of quality, theoretical interest and width of scope, there are no restrictions on the subject-matter of submissions. A double-blind peer-reviewing policy ensures unbiased evaluation.
Сборник посвящён общим и частным вопросам типологии славянских, балтийских и балканских (в первую... more Сборник посвящён общим и частным вопросам типологии славянских, балтийских и балканских (в первую очередь, албанского) языков на разных уровнях: фонологии и просодии, морфологии, синтаксиса, лексики и их взаимодействия. Бóльшая часть статей сборника обращаются к проблематике языковых контактов как важного фактора изменения языковой системы и причины ареального распространения тех или иных типологических черт.
Сборник предназначен для лингвистов — славистов, балтистов, балканистов, типологов, специалистов по истории языка и языковым контактам.
The volume comprises papers dealing with various aspects of the typology of Slavic, Baltic, and Balkan (primarily Albanian) languages: their phonology and prosody, morphology, syntax, lexicon, and their interactions. Most of the papers address these issues from the point of view of language contact, understood as an important factor of language change and a primary means of areal spread of linguistic features.
The book will be of interest to linguists specializing in Slavic and Bal-tic languages, balkanologists, typologists, specialists in historical linguistics and language contact.
Papers by Peter Arkadiev
Fernando Zúñiga & Denis Creissels (eds.), Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages. (Comparative Handbooks in Linguistics 7.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024, pp. 419–471.
This chapter surveys the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicativizing preverbs in English... more This chapter surveys the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicativizing preverbs in English, German, Hungarian, and the Slavic and Baltic languages, with some comments on their non-applicativizing uses. Applicativizing preverbs may be particles or affixes, are transparently related to adverbs/adpositions with spatial and/or aspectual functions, and introduce a new participant to the clause (usually a direct object, occasionally an oblique argument, rarely an indirect object). The chapter pays special attention to English out-verbs and German be-verbs, which have semantics of a kind that is not attested frequently found outside Germanic; it also gives a detailed overview of the semantics of the relatively numerous Slavic and Baltic preverbs.
Fernando Zúñiga & Denis Creissels (eds.), Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages. (Comparative Handbooks in Linguistics 7.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024, pp. 869–912.
This chapter describes applicative constructions in the polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian languag... more This chapter describes applicative constructions in the polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian languages, which are typologically unusual in several respects. First, these languages possess an extraordinary rich system of applicatives whose semantic functions range from benefactive, comitative and malefactive to fairly specialised spatial meanings. Second, the Northwest Caucasian applicatives invariably introduce indirect objects thus almost never affecting the ergative-absolutive alignment of core arguments and serving as important and often only means of integrating peripheral participants into clausal structure. We describe morphology, syntax and semantics of applicatives, as well as a range of nontrivial phenomena such as the semantically empoverished and morphosyntactically special "dative" applicative and the uses of applicatives in agent demotion and clause-combining.
We analyze referential choice in Abaza, a polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian language with consist... more We analyze referential choice in Abaza, a polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian language with consistent head-marking, focusing on the use of independent pronouns in a small corpus of recorded narratives. We show that first and second person pronouns are employed in Abaza for introducing the relevant referents into discourse as well as in situations of topic shift. Forms that morphologically look like third person pronouns are rather used as intensifiers, while the true anaphoric function is performed by demonstratives. The latter tend to occur after the relevant referent is introduced into the discourse by a full noun phrase and before it is established as a protagonist subsequently referred to by pronominal affixes alone. Our results show that the patterns of use of independent pronouns in languages with pronominal affixes both conform to cross-linguistic tendencies and display a number of special features possibly related to their non-default status.
С. И. Переверзева (отв. ред.), Грани Естественного Языка и Кинесики: Сбор-ник статей к 75‑летию Г... more С. И. Переверзева (отв. ред.), Грани Естественного Языка и Кинесики: Сбор-ник статей к 75‑летию Григория Ефимовича Крейдлина. М.: Дискурс, 2023, с. 43–51.
Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulàlia Bonet & Antonio Fábregas (eds),The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology. , 2023
This is a survey of the domain of morphological borrowing complemented with a case-study of conta... more This is a survey of the domain of morphological borrowing complemented with a case-study of contact-induced phenomena in the domain of verbal prefixes in Baltic, Slavic and neighboring languages. Section 2 presents a concise overview of the main divisions and analytical problems of morphological borrowing, focusing on the distinction between matter borrowing and pattern borrowing, on the one hand, and on the borrowing of different types of morphology (e.g. derivation vs. inflection, affixes vs. processes etc.). Section 3 further illustrates these issues on the data of the borrowing phenomena involving verbal prefixes in Baltic and Slavic, such as borrowing of individual prefixes from Slavic into Baltic dialects and of whole systems of prefixes from Slavic into Romani and Istro-Romanian and from Baltic into Livonian, or cases of pattern replication involving verbal prefixes in Lithuanian, Yiddish and Romani. Borrowability of the Slavic and Baltic verbal aspect expressed by means of prefixation is also discussed, and it is shown that the aspectual values of borrowed prefixes are never exact copies of their counterparts in the source languages.
Nina Sumbatova, Ivan Kapitonov, Maria Khachaturyan, Sofia Oskolskaya & Samira Verhees (eds.), Songs and Trees: Papers in Memory of Sasha Vydrina. St. Petersburg: Institute of Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2023, pp. 485–505.
This paper describes the peculiar unmarked objective resultative construction in Abaza, a polysyn... more This paper describes the peculiar unmarked objective resultative construction in Abaza, a polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian language. I discuss the degree of similarity of this construction and its inceptive derivate to the cross-linguistic prototype of the passive. Given that the Abaza resultative is morphologically unmarked, I argue that it can be integrated into the cross-linguistic typology of "passive lability", which is one of the characteristic traits of Mande languages.
Katarzyna Janic, Nicoletta Puddu & Martin Haspelmath (eds.), Reflexive Construc-tions in the World's Languages. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2023, pp. 233–257.
In this article we describe reflexivization constructions in Abaza (Northwest Caucasian), a polys... more In this article we describe reflexivization constructions in Abaza (Northwest Caucasian), a polysynthetic language characterized by consistent head marking and morphological ergativity. Abaza features two dedicated reflexivization markers: (i) the prefix čə-used to reflexivize the absolutive argument, and (ii) the lexical reflexive based on the noun qa 'head', which is able to reflexivize arguments of different types. Besides that, coreferentiality of arguments can be expressed by the 'doubling' of ordinary person-number prefixes, which is primarily used when an indirect object of a transitive verb is coreferential to its ergative subject. The absolutive reflexive prefix also has such uses as anticausative and autocausative. A possible path of diachronic development of the Abaza system of reflexivization markers is also briefly discussed.
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This collective monograph is prepared by a group of Russian linguists sharing the interest to typology, formal models of grammar and interface phenomena. The authors aim at establishing universal and language-specific mechanisms of communicative marking and information ordering. We implement methods of parametric typology and aim at explaining complex multi-layered phenomena in terms of feature combinations which set out both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The developed model of the communicative-syntactic interface is defined for an open class of world's languages which apply to word order alternations, shifting in accent markings and morphosyntactic marking as means of encoding information structure.
The focus of our research interest is in the interaction of formal syntax and information structure and on word order systems of scrambling languages which are described in terms of linear-accent transformations, i.e. rules which at once change linear position and communicative status/accent marking of sentence elements. Most authors share the derivational approach to word order systems and work out the hypothesis that some basic word order can be established for scrambling languages too. Within the derivational approach, word order alternations can be explained at the level of narrow syntax, s(yntactic)-structure, cf. Chapters 4, 13 and 15, as well as on the level of c-(ommunicative) structure, cf. Chapters 1, 3 and 7.
Parametrization of language diversity is a dynamic research field in the linguistics of late XX – XXI centuries. In this particular field, adepts of formal and functional frameworks have many shared research issues and the dialogue between different schools in linguistics can be fruitful. These considerations have shaped the methodological component of the present monograph. Syntactic and communicative phenomena of different world's languages are parametrized, which gives a chance to reveal basic principles underlying them and to understand their role in the integral models of the natural language. The book consists of three parts. Chapter 1 “Clause Architecture and Information Structure” (Ekaterina Lyutikova & Anton Zimmerling) sets the general perspective.
Part I is devoted to the interaction of grammatical and communicative mechanisms relevant for the clause architecture. Chapters 2 “Communicative Structure and Linear-Accent Transformations” (Elena Paducheva) and 3 “Linear-Accent Grammar and Thetic Sentences in Russian” (Anton Zimmerling) introduce the notion of linear-accent transformations (LA-transformations) and investigate the potential of LA-grammars for the analysis of Russian and comparable data. Chapter 4 “Low Left Periphery in Hittite: a Formal Analysis” (Andrey Sideltsev) aims at modeling the complex interactions of grammar-internal and communicative aspects of Hittite word order and clause architecture. Chapter 5 “A Multilevel Theory of Clause Combining: Ossetic and Russian Revisited” (Oleg Belyaev), discusses the strategies of clause combined in Ossetic. Chapter 6 “Verbal Reprise in Irish” (Maria Shkapa) is devoted to one non-trivial communicative operation which becomes possible due to language-specific settings of the clause architecture.
Part II is devoted to issues in clitic studies. Chapter 7 “Clause structure, linear-accent transformations and clitics in Middle Norwegian” (Anton Zimmerling) sets the issues of clitic ordering in a more general context of clause structure ordering. Chapters 8 “The Syntax of Dative clitics in South Slavic lnaguages” (Galina Petrova & Elena Ivanova) and 9 “Bulgarian clitics” (Elena Ivanova) solve the problems of parametric description of clitics and the interactions of clitic ordering with communicative structure on the basis of several South Slavic languages. Chapter 10 “On Russian endoclitics” (Peter Arkadiev) raises a hypothesis that Russian primary prepositions are endoclitics. Finally, chapter 11 “Impersonal Sentences with an Obligatory Pronominal Experiencer in Bulgarian” (Elena Ivanova) is devoted to a non-trivial interaction of grammar and prosody in Bulgarian, where the presence of clause-level clitics (i.e. a particular type of prosodic structure) is mapped to a particular type of sentence constructions.
Part III includes chapters devoted to parametric modeling of the basic morphosyntactic mechanisms underlying clause structure — case and agreement. Chapter 12 “Case theory in the Perspective of Case Variation” (Ekaterina Lyutikova & Dilya Ibatullina) discusses mechanisms of case assignment and their parametrization with respect to the case source, agreement and mapping of syntactic and morphological case. The discussion of a non-trivial interaction between subject case marking and predicate agreement is continued in chapter 13 “(Non) agreement of participles and Two Constructions with Non-nominative Subjects in Lithuanian” (Peter Arkadiev). Chapter 14 “The Structural Position of the Direct Object and Information Structure: a view from Pechora dialect of Komi-Zyrian” (Natalia Serdobolskaya & Svetlana Toldova) discusses the interaction of grammatical, referential and communicative factors with the so called differential object marking. Chapter 15 “Syntactic and Semantic Typology of Genitives — the Genitive of Quality as a Locus of Adjectival Features, a View from Russian” (Pavel Graschenkov) is devoted to a non-trivial mapping of syntax and semantic interpretation in constructions with the genetive of quality; this mapping sheds light on their on the special status of this construction in the perspective of word order and branching conditions. Chapter 16 “Person Agreement in the Dargic Languages: an OT and LFG Analysis” (Oleg Belyaev) offers analysis of person agreement mechanisms in terms of two formal frameworks.
Описаны общие принципы построения семантической типологии, которые могут быть применены к любому лексическому материалу. Книга адресована широкому кругу лингвистов, в первую очередь специалистам по семантике и типологии.
Сборник предназначен для лингвистов — славистов, балтистов, балканистов, типологов, специалистов по истории языка и языковым контактам.
The volume comprises papers dealing with various aspects of the typology of Slavic, Baltic, and Balkan (primarily Albanian) languages: their phonology and prosody, morphology, syntax, lexicon, and their interactions. Most of the papers address these issues from the point of view of language contact, understood as an important factor of language change and a primary means of areal spread of linguistic features.
The book will be of interest to linguists specializing in Slavic and Bal-tic languages, balkanologists, typologists, specialists in historical linguistics and language contact.
Papers by Peter Arkadiev
The summary is below.
This collective monograph is prepared by a group of Russian linguists sharing the interest to typology, formal models of grammar and interface phenomena. The authors aim at establishing universal and language-specific mechanisms of communicative marking and information ordering. We implement methods of parametric typology and aim at explaining complex multi-layered phenomena in terms of feature combinations which set out both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The developed model of the communicative-syntactic interface is defined for an open class of world's languages which apply to word order alternations, shifting in accent markings and morphosyntactic marking as means of encoding information structure.
The focus of our research interest is in the interaction of formal syntax and information structure and on word order systems of scrambling languages which are described in terms of linear-accent transformations, i.e. rules which at once change linear position and communicative status/accent marking of sentence elements. Most authors share the derivational approach to word order systems and work out the hypothesis that some basic word order can be established for scrambling languages too. Within the derivational approach, word order alternations can be explained at the level of narrow syntax, s(yntactic)-structure, cf. Chapters 4, 13 and 15, as well as on the level of c-(ommunicative) structure, cf. Chapters 1, 3 and 7.
Parametrization of language diversity is a dynamic research field in the linguistics of late XX – XXI centuries. In this particular field, adepts of formal and functional frameworks have many shared research issues and the dialogue between different schools in linguistics can be fruitful. These considerations have shaped the methodological component of the present monograph. Syntactic and communicative phenomena of different world's languages are parametrized, which gives a chance to reveal basic principles underlying them and to understand their role in the integral models of the natural language. The book consists of three parts. Chapter 1 “Clause Architecture and Information Structure” (Ekaterina Lyutikova & Anton Zimmerling) sets the general perspective.
Part I is devoted to the interaction of grammatical and communicative mechanisms relevant for the clause architecture. Chapters 2 “Communicative Structure and Linear-Accent Transformations” (Elena Paducheva) and 3 “Linear-Accent Grammar and Thetic Sentences in Russian” (Anton Zimmerling) introduce the notion of linear-accent transformations (LA-transformations) and investigate the potential of LA-grammars for the analysis of Russian and comparable data. Chapter 4 “Low Left Periphery in Hittite: a Formal Analysis” (Andrey Sideltsev) aims at modeling the complex interactions of grammar-internal and communicative aspects of Hittite word order and clause architecture. Chapter 5 “A Multilevel Theory of Clause Combining: Ossetic and Russian Revisited” (Oleg Belyaev), discusses the strategies of clause combined in Ossetic. Chapter 6 “Verbal Reprise in Irish” (Maria Shkapa) is devoted to one non-trivial communicative operation which becomes possible due to language-specific settings of the clause architecture.
Part II is devoted to issues in clitic studies. Chapter 7 “Clause structure, linear-accent transformations and clitics in Middle Norwegian” (Anton Zimmerling) sets the issues of clitic ordering in a more general context of clause structure ordering. Chapters 8 “The Syntax of Dative clitics in South Slavic lnaguages” (Galina Petrova & Elena Ivanova) and 9 “Bulgarian clitics” (Elena Ivanova) solve the problems of parametric description of clitics and the interactions of clitic ordering with communicative structure on the basis of several South Slavic languages. Chapter 10 “On Russian endoclitics” (Peter Arkadiev) raises a hypothesis that Russian primary prepositions are endoclitics. Finally, chapter 11 “Impersonal Sentences with an Obligatory Pronominal Experiencer in Bulgarian” (Elena Ivanova) is devoted to a non-trivial interaction of grammar and prosody in Bulgarian, where the presence of clause-level clitics (i.e. a particular type of prosodic structure) is mapped to a particular type of sentence constructions.
Part III includes chapters devoted to parametric modeling of the basic morphosyntactic mechanisms underlying clause structure — case and agreement. Chapter 12 “Case theory in the Perspective of Case Variation” (Ekaterina Lyutikova & Dilya Ibatullina) discusses mechanisms of case assignment and their parametrization with respect to the case source, agreement and mapping of syntactic and morphological case. The discussion of a non-trivial interaction between subject case marking and predicate agreement is continued in chapter 13 “(Non) agreement of participles and Two Constructions with Non-nominative Subjects in Lithuanian” (Peter Arkadiev). Chapter 14 “The Structural Position of the Direct Object and Information Structure: a view from Pechora dialect of Komi-Zyrian” (Natalia Serdobolskaya & Svetlana Toldova) discusses the interaction of grammatical, referential and communicative factors with the so called differential object marking. Chapter 15 “Syntactic and Semantic Typology of Genitives — the Genitive of Quality as a Locus of Adjectival Features, a View from Russian” (Pavel Graschenkov) is devoted to a non-trivial mapping of syntax and semantic interpretation in constructions with the genetive of quality; this mapping sheds light on their on the special status of this construction in the perspective of word order and branching conditions. Chapter 16 “Person Agreement in the Dargic Languages: an OT and LFG Analysis” (Oleg Belyaev) offers analysis of person agreement mechanisms in terms of two formal frameworks.
Описаны общие принципы построения семантической типологии, которые могут быть применены к любому лексическому материалу. Книга адресована широкому кругу лингвистов, в первую очередь специалистам по семантике и типологии.
Сборник предназначен для лингвистов — славистов, балтистов, балканистов, типологов, специалистов по истории языка и языковым контактам.
The volume comprises papers dealing with various aspects of the typology of Slavic, Baltic, and Balkan (primarily Albanian) languages: their phonology and prosody, morphology, syntax, lexicon, and their interactions. Most of the papers address these issues from the point of view of language contact, understood as an important factor of language change and a primary means of areal spread of linguistic features.
The book will be of interest to linguists specializing in Slavic and Bal-tic languages, balkanologists, typologists, specialists in historical linguistics and language contact.
and even whether it lends itself to a clear-cut definition at all, and, concomitantly, whether the class of “polysynthetic languages” can be delimited in a meaningful way.
Nevertheless, its problematic status notwithstanding, the notion of polysynthesis has
proven useful for the advancement of typology and linguistic theory in that the study of polysynthetic languages has both allowed linguists to better understand a variety of
apparently “exotic” phenomena, such as head-marking and polypersonalism, incorporation, “lexical affixation”, templatic organisation of morphology and others, and offered new insights into the fundamental questions concerning the relations between morphology and syntax, inflection and derivation, lexical storage and online production etc. While not attempting to provide my own solutions to the problems of definition and delimitation of polysynthesis, in this article I first review the definitions of polysynthesis and its characteristic features proposed in the typological literature (section 2), then briefly introduce the major parameters of typological variation in polysynthetic morphology (section 3), and finally present an overview of the polysynthetic properties of the Northwest Caucasian languages focusing on how they fit into the typological classifications proposed (section 4).
Period: 2014-2016
Project number: РНФ 14-18-03270 (RSCI 14-18-03270)
Project affiliation: Moscow State University of Education (Московский педагогический государственный университет)
Project leader: Anton Zimmerling
Project members: Peter Arkadiev, Oleg Belyaev, Maria Konoshenko, Ekaterina Lyutikova, Elena Paducheva, Roman Ronko, Natalia Serdobolskaya, Andrej Sideltsev, Yakov Testelets, Maria Shkapa (2014-2016);
Tatiana Ganenkova (2014-2015), Pavel Grashchenkov (2016), Vasily Kharitonov (2016), Elisaveta Kornakova (2016), Andrej Kosenkov (2014), Liza Kushnir (2014), Maria Langlits (2016), Valentina Markova (2015), Vladislav Romashev (2014), Maria Trubitsina (2015-2016).