Leonid Kulikov
Biographic Data
| ID | 708421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonid Kulikov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonid |
| FAMILY NAME | Kulikov |
| SIGNATURE | KULIKOV L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indo-Iranian Languages – a new addition to the journal family
The Vedic root variants of the type CaC // C(C)ā
Article The Vedic root variants of the type CaC // C(C)ā: Formal patterns and transitivity types (Indo-Aryan evidence for the Indo-European Schwebeablaut and laryngeal root extension) was published on April 1, 2024 in the journal Mother Tongue (volume 25, issue 1).
Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax
In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -rderives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots. Second, we focus on five media tantum verbs, i.e., forms that synchronically carry the -rsuffix and have no counterpart without -r. Unlike most other verbs, these five forms are labile, i.e., they can occur in syntactically in…
Typology and diachrony of converbs in Indo-Aryan
Non-finite forms constitute an important component of the verbal system of Indo-Aryan (IA) languages. On the one hand, some of them, such as e.g., converbs, have already received proper attention in historical linguistics and typological literature, with regard to Old Indo-Aryan (OIA), Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA) and New Indo-Aryan (NIA) (cf. Tikkanen 1987 ; Peterson 1998 ; Subbarao 2012 among others). Other forms, such as participles, have usually b…
The Κένταυρος Controversy Revisited
The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in Proto-Indo-European
For a long time one of the most bewildering conundrums of Indo- European linguistics has been the issue of how to reconstruct the alignment system of this ancient language state, given the lack of distinction between s and o marking in the Proto-Indo-European neuter nouns and the problem of the Hittite ergative. An additional complication stems from the existence of argument structure constructions where the subject(-like) argument is marked in a…
Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change
In contrast to grammaticalization studies of lexical verbs changing into auxiliaries, the realm of semantic changes associated with lexical verbs is an understudied area of historical semantics. We concentrate on the emergence of verbs of success from more semantically concrete verbs, uncovering six conceptual metaphors which all co-occur with non-canonical encoding of subjects in Indo-European. Careful scrutiny of the relevant data reveals a sem…
Social psychology of communication
The collective monograph prepared by the staff of the Department of social psychology of St. Petersburg state University presents theoretical and practical provisions of the current state of social psychology of communication as a branch of scientific knowledge. Various aspects of social psychology of communication on the materials of research conducted in recent years by domestic and foreign researchers are considered here. A significant place i…
The First Woman Yamī, Her Origin and Her Status in Indo-Iranian Mythology
This paper focuses on the mythology of Yamī and her twin-brother Yama (the first humans according to Indo-Iranian mythology), their non-human origin and some aspects of Yamī’s behaviour which presumably betray a number of features of a female half-deity. The relationships between Yamī and Yama are the central topic of the dialogue hymn Rgveda 10.10, where Yamī attempts to seduce her twin to incest in order to produce offspring and thus continue t…
Oblique case-marking in Indo-Aryan experiencer constructions
The decline of labile syntax in Old Indo-Aryan
The ancient Indo-European languages, such as early Vedic or (Homeric) Greek, are usually considered to be characterized by a high degree of lability. According to the communis opinio, they had a considerable number of labile verbs or verbal forms that could be labile, cf. rudrā́ r̥tásya sádaneṣu vāvr̥dhuḥ ‘Rudras have grown [intransitive] in the residences of the truth’ ~ índram ukthā́ni vāvr̥dhuḥ ‘The hymns have increased [transitive] Indra’. Th…
Founders of Western Indology
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The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects
This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural explanations. The discussion encompasses the whole life-cycle of non-canonical subjects: from their emergence out of non-subject arguments to their expansi…
Language vs. grammatical tradition in Ancient India
There are certain discrepancies between the forms and constructions prescribed by Pāṇinian grammarians and the forms and constructions that are actually attested in the Vedic corpus (a part of which is traditionally believed to underlie Pāṇinian grammar). Concentrating on one particular aspect of the Old Indian verbal system, viz. the morphology and syntax of present formations with the suffix ‐ya-, I will provide a few examples of such discrepan…
An Atharvanic hymn to night
This paper offers an analysis and a new translation of an Atharvanic hymn addressed to the goddess of Night, Rātrī, attested in both recensions of the Atharvaveda (AV), in the Śaunakīya, and in the Paippalāda. The translation is accompanied by a philological and text-critical commentary as well as an analysis of some linguistic features of the Vedic language of this period, such as the use of emphatic reflexive pronouns and the periphrastic progr…
The Vedic - ya -presents
This book is the first comprehensive study of the Vedic present formations with the suffix -ya- (‘-ya-presents’ for short), including both present passives with the accented suffix -yá- and non-passive -ya-presents with the accent on the root (class IV in the Indian tradition). It offers a complete survey of all ya-presents attested in the Vedic corpus. The main issue in the spotlight of this monograph is the relationship between form (accent pla…
Vedic preverbs as markers of valency-changing derivations
The present paper offers an analysis of the transitivizing and intransitivizing preverbs (semi-bound verbal prefixes) in Vedic Sanskrit. I will argue that the (in)transitivizing force of these morphemes is weak: the passivization test shows that transitivizing preverbs only exceptionally make fundamentally intransitive verbs true transitives, whilst the only intransitivizing preverb ví has but a rather limited valency-changing capacity
Passive to anticausative through impersonalization
Vedic Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages attest a typologically remarkable change of passives to anticausatives. This semantic development is attested, foremost, for passives of several verbs of perception and knowledge (knowledge transfer) obviously, according to the scenario ‘Y is seen (known etc.) by smb.’ → ‘Y is seen (known etc.) [by smb.]’ → ’Y is seen (known etc.) [by generic passive agent]’ → ‘Y is visible (famous, etc.)’. A speci…
Jamison, Stephanie, The Rig Veda between Two Worlds/Le Rgveda entre deux mondes. Quatre conférences au Collège de France en mai 2004
The reflexive pronouns in Vedic
Case, Valency and Transitivity
The three concepts of case , valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies paper…
Passive and middle in Indo-European
The present paper deals with the passive function of the middle diathesis in Vedic Sanskrit, one of the most ancient attested Indo-European languages. It gives a general survey of passive formations of the three main tense systems (present, aorist and perfect) and discusses forms which are traditionally considered non-characterized middle formations (‘bare middles’). It will be argued that these forms should be grouped with those formations which…
Reduplication in the Vedic verb
The paper presents a survey of the verbal reduplication types, attested in the oldest Vedic texts, Rigveda and Atharvaveda, summarizing the main relevant facts and focusing on the most interesting formal and semantic oppositions. Special attention is paid to the origin of these types in Indo-European perspective as well as on their iconicity.
Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity
This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir Petrovich Nedjalkov. The volume honors this reputed scholar for his life work. It is in mainly this spirit (and the EUROTYPE spirit) that the following …
Passive, Anticausative and Classification of Verbs
The reflexive pronouns in Vedic
Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax
In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -rderives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots. Second, we focus on five media tantum verbs, i.e., forms that synchronically carry the -rsuffix and have no counterpart without -r. Unlike most other verbs, these five forms are labile, i.e., they can occur in syntactically in…
Founders of Western Indology
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The “second causative”
Passive, Anticausative and Classification of Verbs
Typology of Verbal Categories
The typological studies of this volume are oriented towards the areas of interests of the Russian typologist Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, to whom the volume is dedicated. They deal with the typology of verbal categories. The book is divided into three parts: 1. "Ergativity and transitivity", 2. "Voice, causative and valency", 3. "Tense and mood". In all three parts of the volume instances of grammaticalization are pointed out and investigated. The stud…
Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity
This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir Petrovich Nedjalkov. The volume honors this reputed scholar for his life work. It is in mainly this spirit (and the EUROTYPE spirit) that the following …
Reduplication in the Vedic verb
The paper presents a survey of the verbal reduplication types, attested in the oldest Vedic texts, Rigveda and Atharvaveda, summarizing the main relevant facts and focusing on the most interesting formal and semantic oppositions. Special attention is paid to the origin of these types in Indo-European perspective as well as on their iconicity.
Case, Valency and Transitivity
The three concepts of case , valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies paper…
Passive and middle in Indo-European
The present paper deals with the passive function of the middle diathesis in Vedic Sanskrit, one of the most ancient attested Indo-European languages. It gives a general survey of passive formations of the three main tense systems (present, aorist and perfect) and discusses forms which are traditionally considered non-characterized middle formations (‘bare middles’). It will be argued that these forms should be grouped with those formations which…
The reflexive pronouns in Vedic
Passive to anticausative through impersonalization
Vedic Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages attest a typologically remarkable change of passives to anticausatives. This semantic development is attested, foremost, for passives of several verbs of perception and knowledge (knowledge transfer) obviously, according to the scenario ‘Y is seen (known etc.) by smb.’ → ‘Y is seen (known etc.) [by smb.]’ → ’Y is seen (known etc.) [by generic passive agent]’ → ‘Y is visible (famous, etc.)’. A speci…
Jamison, Stephanie, The Rig Veda between Two Worlds/Le Rgveda entre deux mondes. Quatre conférences au Collège de France en mai 2004
The Vedic - ya -presents
This book is the first comprehensive study of the Vedic present formations with the suffix -ya- (‘-ya-presents’ for short), including both present passives with the accented suffix -yá- and non-passive -ya-presents with the accent on the root (class IV in the Indian tradition). It offers a complete survey of all ya-presents attested in the Vedic corpus. The main issue in the spotlight of this monograph is the relationship between form (accent pla…
Vedic preverbs as markers of valency-changing derivations
The present paper offers an analysis of the transitivizing and intransitivizing preverbs (semi-bound verbal prefixes) in Vedic Sanskrit. I will argue that the (in)transitivizing force of these morphemes is weak: the passivization test shows that transitivizing preverbs only exceptionally make fundamentally intransitive verbs true transitives, whilst the only intransitivizing preverb ví has but a rather limited valency-changing capacity
The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects
This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural explanations. The discussion encompasses the whole life-cycle of non-canonical subjects: from their emergence out of non-subject arguments to their expansi…
Language vs. grammatical tradition in Ancient India
There are certain discrepancies between the forms and constructions prescribed by Pāṇinian grammarians and the forms and constructions that are actually attested in the Vedic corpus (a part of which is traditionally believed to underlie Pāṇinian grammar). Concentrating on one particular aspect of the Old Indian verbal system, viz. the morphology and syntax of present formations with the suffix ‐ya-, I will provide a few examples of such discrepan…
An Atharvanic hymn to night
This paper offers an analysis and a new translation of an Atharvanic hymn addressed to the goddess of Night, Rātrī, attested in both recensions of the Atharvaveda (AV), in the Śaunakīya, and in the Paippalāda. The translation is accompanied by a philological and text-critical commentary as well as an analysis of some linguistic features of the Vedic language of this period, such as the use of emphatic reflexive pronouns and the periphrastic progr…
The decline of labile syntax in Old Indo-Aryan
The ancient Indo-European languages, such as early Vedic or (Homeric) Greek, are usually considered to be characterized by a high degree of lability. According to the communis opinio, they had a considerable number of labile verbs or verbal forms that could be labile, cf. rudrā́ r̥tásya sádaneṣu vāvr̥dhuḥ ‘Rudras have grown [intransitive] in the residences of the truth’ ~ índram ukthā́ni vāvr̥dhuḥ ‘The hymns have increased [transitive] Indra’. Th…
Founders of Western Indology
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Oblique case-marking in Indo-Aryan experiencer constructions
Social psychology of communication
The collective monograph prepared by the staff of the Department of social psychology of St. Petersburg state University presents theoretical and practical provisions of the current state of social psychology of communication as a branch of scientific knowledge. Various aspects of social psychology of communication on the materials of research conducted in recent years by domestic and foreign researchers are considered here. A significant place i…
The First Woman Yamī, Her Origin and Her Status in Indo-Iranian Mythology
This paper focuses on the mythology of Yamī and her twin-brother Yama (the first humans according to Indo-Iranian mythology), their non-human origin and some aspects of Yamī’s behaviour which presumably betray a number of features of a female half-deity. The relationships between Yamī and Yama are the central topic of the dialogue hymn Rgveda 10.10, where Yamī attempts to seduce her twin to incest in order to produce offspring and thus continue t…
The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in Proto-Indo-European
For a long time one of the most bewildering conundrums of Indo- European linguistics has been the issue of how to reconstruct the alignment system of this ancient language state, given the lack of distinction between s and o marking in the Proto-Indo-European neuter nouns and the problem of the Hittite ergative. An additional complication stems from the existence of argument structure constructions where the subject(-like) argument is marked in a…
Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change
In contrast to grammaticalization studies of lexical verbs changing into auxiliaries, the realm of semantic changes associated with lexical verbs is an understudied area of historical semantics. We concentrate on the emergence of verbs of success from more semantically concrete verbs, uncovering six conceptual metaphors which all co-occur with non-canonical encoding of subjects in Indo-European. Careful scrutiny of the relevant data reveals a sem…
Typology and diachrony of converbs in Indo-Aryan
Non-finite forms constitute an important component of the verbal system of Indo-Aryan (IA) languages. On the one hand, some of them, such as e.g., converbs, have already received proper attention in historical linguistics and typological literature, with regard to Old Indo-Aryan (OIA), Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA) and New Indo-Aryan (NIA) (cf. Tikkanen 1987 ; Peterson 1998 ; Subbarao 2012 among others). Other forms, such as participles, have usually b…
The Κένταυρος Controversy Revisited
Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax
In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -rderives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots. Second, we focus on five media tantum verbs, i.e., forms that synchronically carry the -rsuffix and have no counterpart without -r. Unlike most other verbs, these five forms are labile, i.e., they can occur in syntactically in…
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