Alexander Letuchiy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Letuchiy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Letuchiy |
| SIGNATURE | LETUCHIY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4151-2550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grammar and information structure
Interpretation of complex sentences with different types of matrix predicates in the context of negation and modal operators
William Croft’s approach to constructions in comparison with the system of constructions in the Russian Constructicon
In this article, we discuss the approach to description of constructions adopted in William Croft’s monograph “Morphosyntax. Constructions of the World’s languages” (2022) and compare it to the approach to description and classification that is used in the Russian Constructicon. We conclude that Croft’s system and the Russian Constructicon show several substantial differences. First, Croft’s approach is based on the notion of Comparative Concepts…
Russian colloquial complement clauses with čto
The article addresses Russian colloquial constructions with the complemtizer čto, such as Ty skaži, čto ja že ne znal ‘Say that you didn’t know it (lit. ‘that “I didn’t know that”’) or On načal izvinjat’sja, čto on ne xotel ‘He began to apologize that he didn’t mean that’. These constructions are mainly described in respect of person: namely, of indexical shift, meaning that person is marked as in direct, rather than indirect speech. However, it …
Specific restrictions on the use of byt’-passive in Russian
The Russian pronoun TAM as a marker of anaphora to an argument
The present article addresses a special use of the Russian locative pronoun tam: the use represented in examples like ‘I talked to her — no understanding of the situation there’. In those contexts, tam refers to a participant (usually animate), rather than a location. After a brief sketch of other uses, I describe the rules and restrictions on the ‘argument’ use of tam. Then, I analyze the role of this use in the Russian pronoun system and relati…
A Problem of Selecting a Verb Stem for Prefixation
The article focuses on the choice of verbal stem (perfective vs. imperfective) for prefixation. Although some tendencies have been described in existing work (for instance, the fact that lexical prefixes very often choose the perfective stem, while this is not true for supralexical prefixes), I show that many cases of stem choice cannot be explained by the opposition of lexical vs. supralexical prefixes. For instance, the verb prygat’ / prygnut’ …
Russian constructions with numerals and quantifiers
In the article, I describe cases of special behavior of Russian phrases with quantifiers like neskol’ko ‘some’, mnogo ‘many, much’ and small numerals like dva ‘two’. I show that they can occur in the subject position in contexts that usually do not contain a canonical DP/NP subject (constructions with the verb xvatat’ ‘be enough’, negation contexts with the verb byt’ ‘be’ and its habitual / iterative correlate byvat’), and for neskol’ko-like quan…
Russian constructions with semi-auxiliary verbs and adjectives
On tense and irrealis marking in triclausal constructions (and what distinguishes them from biclausal constructions)
In this article, I consider Russian triclausal constructions (complex sentences including three clauses, one main and two dependent). More specifically, I analyze constructions where C1 (the main clause) embeds C2 (an embedded clause), while C2 in turn embeds C3. In the paper, I mainly concentrate on sentences where C2 is a clause with an unreal meaning, for instance, an argument clause hosted by the verb xotet’ ‘want’, and C3 is an adjunct (temp…
Russian adverbials with temporal meaning TOL’KO, TOL’KO-TOL’KO, and TOL’KO ČTO
Historical development of labile verbs in modern Russian
The article deals with the phenomenon of lability (ambitransitivity), in other words, the ability of a verb to be either transitive or intransitive. I analyze the historical development of verbs which are currently labile in modern Russian. The main group of Russian labile verbs includes verbs of motion. On the basis of corpus and dictionary data, I conclude that the behavior of the lexemes under analysis is far from being uniform. However, inter…
Verb classes in Adyghe
In my paper, two variants of verb classification in Adyghe, a language of the West Caucasian family, are discussed. The first variant is a purely morphological classification based on the choice of person cross-referencing prefixes. The second one is a derivational classification which builds on the morphological mechanisms of reciprocalization and reflexivization. The main research question which lies behind my study is whether verbs derived by …
Towards a typology of labile verbs
Reciprocal, reflexive, and sociative in Adyghe
Verb classes in Adyghe
In my paper, two variants of verb classification in Adyghe, a language of the West Caucasian family, are discussed. The first variant is a purely morphological classification based on the choice of person cross-referencing prefixes. The second one is a derivational classification which builds on the morphological mechanisms of reciprocalization and reflexivization. The main research question which lies behind my study is whether verbs derived by …
Reciprocal, reflexive, and sociative in Adyghe
Towards a typology of labile verbs
Verb classes in Adyghe
In my paper, two variants of verb classification in Adyghe, a language of the West Caucasian family, are discussed. The first variant is a purely morphological classification based on the choice of person cross-referencing prefixes. The second one is a derivational classification which builds on the morphological mechanisms of reciprocalization and reflexivization. The main research question which lies behind my study is whether verbs derived by …
Historical development of labile verbs in modern Russian
The article deals with the phenomenon of lability (ambitransitivity), in other words, the ability of a verb to be either transitive or intransitive. I analyze the historical development of verbs which are currently labile in modern Russian. The main group of Russian labile verbs includes verbs of motion. On the basis of corpus and dictionary data, I conclude that the behavior of the lexemes under analysis is far from being uniform. However, inter…
Russian adverbials with temporal meaning TOL’KO, TOL’KO-TOL’KO, and TOL’KO ČTO
Russian constructions with semi-auxiliary verbs and adjectives
On tense and irrealis marking in triclausal constructions (and what distinguishes them from biclausal constructions)
In this article, I consider Russian triclausal constructions (complex sentences including three clauses, one main and two dependent). More specifically, I analyze constructions where C1 (the main clause) embeds C2 (an embedded clause), while C2 in turn embeds C3. In the paper, I mainly concentrate on sentences where C2 is a clause with an unreal meaning, for instance, an argument clause hosted by the verb xotet’ ‘want’, and C3 is an adjunct (temp…
A Problem of Selecting a Verb Stem for Prefixation
The article focuses on the choice of verbal stem (perfective vs. imperfective) for prefixation. Although some tendencies have been described in existing work (for instance, the fact that lexical prefixes very often choose the perfective stem, while this is not true for supralexical prefixes), I show that many cases of stem choice cannot be explained by the opposition of lexical vs. supralexical prefixes. For instance, the verb prygat’ / prygnut’ …
Russian constructions with numerals and quantifiers
In the article, I describe cases of special behavior of Russian phrases with quantifiers like neskol’ko ‘some’, mnogo ‘many, much’ and small numerals like dva ‘two’. I show that they can occur in the subject position in contexts that usually do not contain a canonical DP/NP subject (constructions with the verb xvatat’ ‘be enough’, negation contexts with the verb byt’ ‘be’ and its habitual / iterative correlate byvat’), and for neskol’ko-like quan…
The Russian pronoun TAM as a marker of anaphora to an argument
The present article addresses a special use of the Russian locative pronoun tam: the use represented in examples like ‘I talked to her — no understanding of the situation there’. In those contexts, tam refers to a participant (usually animate), rather than a location. After a brief sketch of other uses, I describe the rules and restrictions on the ‘argument’ use of tam. Then, I analyze the role of this use in the Russian pronoun system and relati…
Specific restrictions on the use of byt’-passive in Russian
Russian colloquial complement clauses with čto
The article addresses Russian colloquial constructions with the complemtizer čto, such as Ty skaži, čto ja že ne znal ‘Say that you didn’t know it (lit. ‘that “I didn’t know that”’) or On načal izvinjat’sja, čto on ne xotel ‘He began to apologize that he didn’t mean that’. These constructions are mainly described in respect of person: namely, of indexical shift, meaning that person is marked as in direct, rather than indirect speech. However, it …
William Croft’s approach to constructions in comparison with the system of constructions in the Russian Constructicon
In this article, we discuss the approach to description of constructions adopted in William Croft’s monograph “Morphosyntax. Constructions of the World’s languages” (2022) and compare it to the approach to description and classification that is used in the Russian Constructicon. We conclude that Croft’s system and the Russian Constructicon show several substantial differences. First, Croft’s approach is based on the notion of Comparative Concepts…
Interpretation of complex sentences with different types of matrix predicates in the context of negation and modal operators
Grammar and information structure
Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Verb (6 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (5 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (5 works) · Syntax (5 works)