This state-of-the-art review tries to cover as much as possible about the properties, conditions and analyses of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish. Starting with some considerations about the boundaries of the phenomenon, it considers its morphological, semantic and syntactic properties –with respect both to the internal properties of the direct object and to the wider context in which ...

В статье [Янда 2012] предлагается рассматривать глагольные приставки в русском языке как систему с глагольными классификаторами. В ответной статье [Зализняк, Микаэлян 2012] крити- куется подход, теория когнитивной лингвистики, в рамках которой было высказано предположе- ние, и данные, на основе которых были сделаны выводы. В следующем отклике рассматривается одно из важных отличий теории когнитивной ...

We are pleased to present Space and Time in Russian Temporal Expressions as a special issue of Russian Linguistics, guest edited by Laura A. Janda, Stephen M. Dickey, and Tore Nesset. Here we offer some of the research results of the CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian) group1 at the University of Tromsø and our collaborators. This research was sponsored by a grant from the ...

The aim of this thesis is to provide a study of sociolinguistic aspects of the Spanish variety spoken in Cádiz, city in the province with the same name, located in Andalucía. The focus will be on the following subjects: the linguistic attitudes of the community in Cádiz towards their own speech and the use of the address forms in the same city, concentrating on the young generation. Here, the main ...

Non-concatenative morphological phenomena appear on the face of it to require a powerful morphological component, capable of more than straightforward addition of affixes consisting of segmental material. The chapter proposes that the full range of non-concatenative phenomena may be completely accounted for in piece-based terms using analytical tools that are independently necessary. These phenomena ...

Nearly two thousand perfective verbs in Russian are formed via the addition of so-called “empty prefixes” (čistovidovye pristavki) to imperfective base verbs. The traditional assumption that prefixes are semantically “empty” when used to form aspectual pairs is problematic because the same prefixes are clearly “non-empty” when combined with other base verbs. Though some scholars have suspected that ...

In this article I investigate part of speech distinctions in Russian based on an in-depth analysis of an understudied group of words, namely bain’ki ‘sleep’, spaten’ki ‘sleep’, kušan’ki ‘eat’ and gulen’ki ‘walk’, which are mainly used in speech with or about children, but which regardless of their high frequency and productivity remain ignored in Russian linguistics. The main question is: what part ...

I norske eiendomskonstruksjoner kan possessiven enten stå foran eller etter substantivet. Når enspråklige norske barn tilegner seg disse strukturene, foretrekker de først den foranstilte possessiven, selv om denne er mye mindre frekvent enn den etterstilte. Dette skyldes trolig at postnominale possessiver er strukturelt mer komplekse enn prenominale. I denne artikkelen undersøker vi denne ...

This article examines an interesting phenomenon in Russian morphology: the behavior of the prefixes o- and ob-. Do these prefixes constitute two distinct morphemes or are they allomorphs of a single morpheme? Previous discussion in scholarly works has been limited to lexical data provided in dictionaries. A number of controversial uses of these prefixes were discovered and led to the hypothesis ...

This paper discusses some word order inconsistencies found in present-day English and argues that these may be explained by natural processes in first language acquisition. English is usually assumed to have lost its verb-second (V2) properties in the Middle English period, but the paper argues that English should be considered a mixed V2 grammar, as subject-auxiliary inversion is still a syntactic ...