Irina Nikolaeva
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 544751 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Irina Nikolaeva |
| PRENOMES | Irina |
| SOBRENOME | Nikolaeva |
| ASSINATURA | NIKOLAEVA I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universidad de Londres |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6352-1554 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region
The paper deals with recent contact-induced changes in the grammar of two languages of the Lower Kolyma tundra, Tundra Yukaghir ( TY ) and Lower Kolyma Even ( LKE ). The morphosyntax of these languages has undergone a rather strong influence from Sakha in the course of the 20th century. The investigation focusses on the structural copying of Sakha patterns into TY and LKE , which resulted in the emergence of several new categories, in particular,…
Constructional analogy and reanalysis in possessive applicatives
Although possessors internal to an argument DP do not qualify as canonical controllers of verbal agreement, in some languages an internal possessor may be cross‐referenced on an applicative verb. The aim of the paper is to propose a historical scenario for the emergence of this pattern, following the basic insights of the constructional approach to language change. The paper argues that this pattern is a historical innovation. It emerged when the…
Possessive and non-identity relations in Turkic switch-reference
This paper provides an overview of non-canonical patterns of switch-reference involving the converb in -(V)p in selected Turkic languages. This converb is usually described as a same-subject converb, but we show that it can conform to McKenzie’s (2012) extended definition of “same-subject” as expressing the identity of topic situations, rather than subject referents. In addition to tracking cross-clausal subject identity, -(V)p can be used when t…
On Adjoined Possessors
External and internal possessors differ from each other in several properties. In contrast to internal possessors, external possessors do not form a constituent with the possessed noun and can participate in clause-level processes such as verb agreement and switch-reference. In this squib, we discuss “intermediate” possessors with both internal and external properties. In Tundra Nenets (Uralic), such possessors form a syntactic constituent with t…
On the expression of TAM on nouns
A Grammar of Tundra Nenets
The book is the first substantial description of Tundra Nenets, a highly endangered Uralic language spoken in Western Siberia and the north of European Russia, destined for the international linguistic community. Its purpose is to provide a thorough documentation of all of the major grammatical phenomena in the language. The grammar particularly emphasizes the description of syntax, because this has traditionally been a very neglected area of Nen…
Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir
Objects and Information Structure
In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information structure, the structuring of the utterance in accordance with the informational value of its elements and contextual factors. Marked objects tend to be associated with old …
Typology of Finiteness
The notion of finiteness inherited from the traditional grammar and based on morphological criteria has been ill defined. While some typologists doubt the universality of the finite/nonfinite distinction, others suggest that finiteness is a scalar meta-phenomenon or a functional tendency defined by a cluster of correlating parameters. In this approach no decision is needed as to what feature is crucial for finiteness because it has different morp…
Between nouns and adjectives
Finiteness
Morphosyntactic mismatches in lexical categories
Syntax of Natural and Accidental Coordination
Adjective agreement with coordinated nouns in Finnish presents a puzzling pattern: in some cases, a plural adjective is required with coordinated singular nouns, while in other cases that seemto be syntactically identical, a plural adjective is disallowed. The key to this puzzle lies at the syntax-semantics interface: plural adjectives are required in cases of NATURAL COORDINATION, where a salient close relation holds between the conjuncts, but d…
Secondary topic as a relation in information structure
Information structure may be understood as the pragmatic structuring of a proposition in terms of the speaker’s assumptions concerning the addressee’s state of mind at the time of the utterance. The commonly assumed binominal partition of the information structure into topic‐focus, theme‐rheme, topic‐ comment, focus‐open proposition, or focus‐presupposition is sometimes insuYcient. The paper addresses the notion of secondary topic, which, althoug…
Object Agreement, Grammatical Relations, and Information Structure
Northern Ostyak (Uralic) has optional object agreement. This paper analyzes the grammatical behavior of objects that trigger agreement and objects that do not, and demonstrates that while the former participate in certain syntactic processes, the latter are syntactically inert. The asymmetry cannot be explained with reference to semantics or argument status, as both objects bear an identical argument relationship to the predicate. Following the f…
Optimal syllables are not always optimal
Communicative roles in Ostyak syntax
In Northern Ostyk the distribution of semantic roles in syntactic positions depends on communicative factors, i.e. on the communicative roles of the sentence elements which denote the participants of the situation. The communicative roles which affect the marking of actants and the type of sentence construction are permanent topic, temporary topic and focus. The paper deals with the rules of selecting the construction of simple and polypredicativ…
Descriptive Typology and Linguistic Theory
Descriptive grammarians and typologists often encounter unusual constructions or unfamiliar variants of otherwise familiar construction types. Many of these phenomena are puzzling from the perspective of linguistic theories: they neither predict these anomalies nor, arguably, provide the tools to describe them insightfully. This book analyzes an unusual type of relative clause found in many related and unrelated languages of Eurasia. While provid…
Between nouns and adjectives
Secondary topic as a relation in information structure
Information structure may be understood as the pragmatic structuring of a proposition in terms of the speaker’s assumptions concerning the addressee’s state of mind at the time of the utterance. The commonly assumed binominal partition of the information structure into topic‐focus, theme‐rheme, topic‐ comment, focus‐open proposition, or focus‐presupposition is sometimes insuYcient. The paper addresses the notion of secondary topic, which, althoug…
Syntax of Natural and Accidental Coordination
Adjective agreement with coordinated nouns in Finnish presents a puzzling pattern: in some cases, a plural adjective is required with coordinated singular nouns, while in other cases that seemto be syntactically identical, a plural adjective is disallowed. The key to this puzzle lies at the syntax-semantics interface: plural adjectives are required in cases of NATURAL COORDINATION, where a salient close relation holds between the conjuncts, but d…
On the expression of TAM on nouns
Typology of Finiteness
The notion of finiteness inherited from the traditional grammar and based on morphological criteria has been ill defined. While some typologists doubt the universality of the finite/nonfinite distinction, others suggest that finiteness is a scalar meta-phenomenon or a functional tendency defined by a cluster of correlating parameters. In this approach no decision is needed as to what feature is crucial for finiteness because it has different morp…
Communicative roles in Ostyak syntax
In Northern Ostyk the distribution of semantic roles in syntactic positions depends on communicative factors, i.e. on the communicative roles of the sentence elements which denote the participants of the situation. The communicative roles which affect the marking of actants and the type of sentence construction are permanent topic, temporary topic and focus. The paper deals with the rules of selecting the construction of simple and polypredicativ…
Optimal syllables are not always optimal
Object Agreement, Grammatical Relations, and Information Structure
Northern Ostyak (Uralic) has optional object agreement. This paper analyzes the grammatical behavior of objects that trigger agreement and objects that do not, and demonstrates that while the former participate in certain syntactic processes, the latter are syntactically inert. The asymmetry cannot be explained with reference to semantics or argument status, as both objects bear an identical argument relationship to the predicate. Following the f…
Secondary topic as a relation in information structure
Information structure may be understood as the pragmatic structuring of a proposition in terms of the speaker’s assumptions concerning the addressee’s state of mind at the time of the utterance. The commonly assumed binominal partition of the information structure into topic‐focus, theme‐rheme, topic‐ comment, focus‐open proposition, or focus‐presupposition is sometimes insuYcient. The paper addresses the notion of secondary topic, which, althoug…
Syntax of Natural and Accidental Coordination
Adjective agreement with coordinated nouns in Finnish presents a puzzling pattern: in some cases, a plural adjective is required with coordinated singular nouns, while in other cases that seemto be syntactically identical, a plural adjective is disallowed. The key to this puzzle lies at the syntax-semantics interface: plural adjectives are required in cases of NATURAL COORDINATION, where a salient close relation holds between the conjuncts, but d…
Finiteness
Morphosyntactic mismatches in lexical categories
Between nouns and adjectives
Typology of Finiteness
The notion of finiteness inherited from the traditional grammar and based on morphological criteria has been ill defined. While some typologists doubt the universality of the finite/nonfinite distinction, others suggest that finiteness is a scalar meta-phenomenon or a functional tendency defined by a cluster of correlating parameters. In this approach no decision is needed as to what feature is crucial for finiteness because it has different morp…
Objects and Information Structure
In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information structure, the structuring of the utterance in accordance with the informational value of its elements and contextual factors. Marked objects tend to be associated with old …
A Grammar of Tundra Nenets
The book is the first substantial description of Tundra Nenets, a highly endangered Uralic language spoken in Western Siberia and the north of European Russia, destined for the international linguistic community. Its purpose is to provide a thorough documentation of all of the major grammatical phenomena in the language. The grammar particularly emphasizes the description of syntax, because this has traditionally been a very neglected area of Nen…
Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir
On the expression of TAM on nouns
On Adjoined Possessors
External and internal possessors differ from each other in several properties. In contrast to internal possessors, external possessors do not form a constituent with the possessed noun and can participate in clause-level processes such as verb agreement and switch-reference. In this squib, we discuss “intermediate” possessors with both internal and external properties. In Tundra Nenets (Uralic), such possessors form a syntactic constituent with t…
Constructional analogy and reanalysis in possessive applicatives
Although possessors internal to an argument DP do not qualify as canonical controllers of verbal agreement, in some languages an internal possessor may be cross‐referenced on an applicative verb. The aim of the paper is to propose a historical scenario for the emergence of this pattern, following the basic insights of the constructional approach to language change. The paper argues that this pattern is a historical innovation. It emerged when the…
Possessive and non-identity relations in Turkic switch-reference
This paper provides an overview of non-canonical patterns of switch-reference involving the converb in -(V)p in selected Turkic languages. This converb is usually described as a same-subject converb, but we show that it can conform to McKenzie’s (2012) extended definition of “same-subject” as expressing the identity of topic situations, rather than subject referents. In addition to tracking cross-clausal subject identity, -(V)p can be used when t…
Descriptive Typology and Linguistic Theory
Descriptive grammarians and typologists often encounter unusual constructions or unfamiliar variants of otherwise familiar construction types. Many of these phenomena are puzzling from the perspective of linguistic theories: they neither predict these anomalies nor, arguably, provide the tools to describe them insightfully. This book analyzes an unusual type of relative clause found in many related and unrelated languages of Eurasia. While provid…
Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region
The paper deals with recent contact-induced changes in the grammar of two languages of the Lower Kolyma tundra, Tundra Yukaghir ( TY ) and Lower Kolyma Even ( LKE ). The morphosyntax of these languages has undergone a rather strong influence from Sakha in the course of the 20th century. The investigation focusses on the structural copying of Sakha patterns into TY and LKE , which resulted in the emergence of several new categories, in particular,…
Linguistics (18 obras) · Philosophy (18 obras) · Computer Science (17 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (14 obras) · Syntax (9 obras) · Natural language processing (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Linguistics and Cultural Studies (6 obras) · Linguistics and language evolution (6 obras) · Verb (6 obras)