Papers by Andrey Shluinsky
Language in Africa, Jul 23, 2022
Language in Africa, Nov 15, 2022
Acta linguistica petropolitana, 2020
Аннотация. В статье суммируется информация о морфологических особенностях нелексических глаголов ... more Аннотация. В статье суммируется информация о морфологических особенностях нелексических глаголов в лесном и тундровом диалектах энецкого языка: глагола-связки, отрицательных глаголов, модально-вопросительного глагола и словозаместителя. У глагола-связки в лесном диалекте, в отличие от тундрового, имеются две дополнительно распределенных основы. У основного отрицательного глагола две дополнительно распределенных основы есть в обоих диалектах и представлен ряд иных морфологических особенностей, включая наличие особых форм. Парадигма прочих отрицательных глаголов является дефектной и включает только некоторые формы. У существующего в лесном диалекте модально-вопросительного глагола представлена только форма неопределенного времени субъектнообъектного спряжения. Словозаместитель образует как именные, так и глагольные формы от единой основы. Ключевые слова: энецкий язык, нелексические глаголы, глагол-связка, отрицательный глагол, вопросительный глагол, словозаместитель.
Adpositions and adpositional relator nouns in Akebu
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
This paper presents an overview, based on field data, of the adpositional system in Akebu, a Kwa ... more This paper presents an overview, based on field data, of the adpositional system in Akebu, a Kwa (Ghana-Togo Mountain) language of West Africa. Like other Kwa languages, Akebu has both linear types of adpositions. Prepositions are not numerous and are fully grammaticalized. Two prepositions are used very widely, one of them expressing a comitative meaning and a number of related ones, the other having a generalized locative meaning, as well as other ones. In contrast, postpositions are more numerous, but most of them are weakly grammaticalized relator nouns that express the meanings of locational orientations and keep nominal morphology and independent uses. Still, grammaticalized postpositions are also present, the most common of them being a postposition that expresses apudessive, i.e. near, next to, orientation.
A rare type of benefactive construction: Evidence from Enets
Linguistics
Together with other Northern Samoyedic languages, Enets shows a crosslinguistically unusual way o... more Together with other Northern Samoyedic languages, Enets shows a crosslinguistically unusual way of expressing benefactive semantics. The Enets benefactive construction consists of a specific “destinative” affix that marks the presence of a beneficiary in a given clause and of a possessive affix that marks the beneficiary itself. Both affixes are attached to one of the verb's arguments. This makes the beneficiary encoded as an adnominal dependent of the verb's argument. This paper has two goals. Firstly, a detailed description of the Enets benefactive construction is provided, including its morphology, morphosyntax, and peculiarities of the differential object marking. Secondly, we aim to establish crosslinguistic parallels with the Enets benefactive construction. While phenomena with similar semantic features have been attested in the world's languages, we show that the Enets construction demonstrates a unique set of semantic and morphosyntactic properties.
Hämeenmaalta Jamalille. Kirja Tapani Salmiselle, Apr 1, 2022
Studies in African Linguistics
The paper deals with conjoined subjects and verbal agreement resolution in Akebu and contributes ... more The paper deals with conjoined subjects and verbal agreement resolution in Akebu and contributes to the typology of noun phrase coordination and agreement resolution in Niger-Congo. Akebu demonstrates both inclusory and compositional coordination with pronominal conjuncts, the former being typical for animate conjuncts, the latter being obligatory for inanimate conjuncts. Semantic person agreement resolution of the verb is possible, and semantic noun class agreement resolution is obligatory with animate conjoined 3rd person subjects, while inanimate conjoined 3rd person subjects trigger syntactic or mixed agreement resolution.
Incorporation as a nominal attribute strategy in Akebu
Language Sciences
Verb–verb complexes in Turkic languages
Verb-Verb Complexes in Asian Languages, 2021
The chapter contains an overview of V–V complexes in Turkic languages and three case studies of t... more The chapter contains an overview of V–V complexes in Turkic languages and three case studies of the interaction of V–V complexes with lexical verbs based on field data of Karachay-Balkar, Anatri Chuvash, and Tubalar Altai. The chapter shows that the meaning of a modifier is not uniform but interacts with the meaning of the lexical verbs. Modifiers have different interpretations and/or lexical restrictions that in most cases may be predicted from the semantic features of the lexical verb. If a modifier changes the actional structure of the lexical verb, its specific meaning may be predicted from the actional class of the verb. If a modifier changes the argument structure of the lexical verbs or has a modal meaning, the most relevant features are the volitivity and agentivity of the lexical verb.
New Challenges in Typology
Lexical diffusion of graduate phonetic changes : evidence from Forest Enets
Through a series of linguistic maps based on published ethnographic data and our fieldwork accoun... more Through a series of linguistic maps based on published ethnographic data and our fieldwork accounts, we reconstruct the territories in which Forest and Tundra Enets (Samoyedic) has been spoken from the 17th century till today. Text accompanying the maps comments on details of migrations of the two ethnic groups and on language contact with their neighbors, including descriptions of several assimilation processes that the Enets have been involved with. The gradual language endangerment process is analyzed in its geographic dimension.
Ditransitive constructions in Akebu
Studies in Language, 2020
This paper contributes to the typology of ditransitive constructions. Akebu (Kwa, Ghana-Togo moun... more This paper contributes to the typology of ditransitive constructions. Akebu (Kwa, Ghana-Togo mountain, West Africa) has four strategies of alignment of ditransitive verbs, if both theme and recipient objects are expressed: a neutral strategy, a possessive-like strategy, a strategy with a pronominal reprise and a ‘take’ serial verb construction strategy. The possessive-like strategy that is most standard in Akebu is rare in a cross-linguistic perspective and has not been attested in other Kwa languages. The factors that license a certain strategy are person, number and noun class of the theme and recipient and the internal structure of the theme noun phrase.
[Book Review of:] Sorokina Irina Petrovna. Enetskij jazyk. Sankt-Peterburg : Nauka, 2010. - 410 pp. - ISBN 5-02-025581-5 ; ISBN 978-5-02-025581-4
Destinativ v èneckom jazyke : tipologičeski redkoe javlenie v kontekste lingvističeskoj teorii (Destinative in Enets : a cross-linguistically rare phenomenon in context of the linguistic theory)
Open Linguistics, 2020
This article presents an overview of the numeral system in Akebu, a Kwa language of Togo. The Ake... more This article presents an overview of the numeral system in Akebu, a Kwa language of Togo. The Akebu numeral system is a decimal one and contains simple numerals from ‘1’ to ‘9’ and decimal bases for ‘10’, ‘100’, and ‘1,000’. The former have noun class agreement markers, while the latter do not. Only some noun classes are compatible with numerals, but among them there are both plural and singular classes.
Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2020
The paper presents a corpus-based description of the noun phrase structure in Enets dealing with ... more The paper presents a corpus-based description of the noun phrase structure in Enets dealing with both Enets dialects – Forest Enets and Tundra Enets. An Enets noun phrase has six slots for modifiers: determiner, relative clause, possessor NP, numeral, adjective phrase, apposed NP. Determiners, relative clauses, and adjective phrases are subject to linear recursion, other modifiers are not. All modifiers precede the head NP. In Enets, there is no agreement between head noun and modifiers, but numerals have different patterns in the choice of head noun number form. Kokkuvõte. Andrej Šluinski: Noomenifraas eenetsi keeles. Artikkel esitab korpuspõhise kirjelduse eenetsi keele noomenifraasi struktuurist mõlemas eenetsi keele murdes – metsaeenetsi ja tundraeenetsi. Eenetsi noomenifraasil on kuus täiendikohta: määratleja, relatiivlause, omajat väljendav NP, numeraal, omadussõnafraas, appositsiooniline NP. Määratlejad, relatiivlaused ja omadussõnafraasid alluvad lineaarsele rekursioonile, t...
Language in Africa, 2020
This paper presents a pilot instrumental study of phonetic reduction of noun class suffi xes in A... more This paper presents a pilot instrumental study of phonetic reduction of noun class suffi xes in Akebu (Kwa, Ghana-Togo mountain, West Africa). Noun class suffi xes starting with a glide are regularly perceived as omitted or almost omitted, and therefore full and reduced variants can be distinguished for such nouns. A formant measurement of fi nal parts of full and reduced forms of the same nouns has shown that, fi rst, for a given fi nal part of a noun stem the reduced variant is phonetically close to the corresponding full variant and, second, for a given fi nal part of a noun stem the forms with reduction of different suffi xes are phonetically different.
Language in Africa, 2020
We are happy to present hereby the fi rst issue of the new journal "Language in Africa". The jour... more We are happy to present hereby the fi rst issue of the new journal "Language in Africa". The journal is co-founded by the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and by the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). The journal is primarily focused on African linguistics, including ethno-and sociolinguistics, but also on literature, folklore, written and oral traditions. The audience of the journal is the international community of scholars working on African languages and related fi elds, and publishing is open to all scholars working in these spheres. Another aim of the journal is to provide international access to the Russian tradition of African studies which is often unknown internationally due to the language barrier. However, we welcome submissions of scholars working on African languages all over the world. There is a long and rich tradition of African studies, and especially African linguistic studies in Russia, mainly concentrated in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In both cities there are chairs of African studies in the universities and research departments in Russian Academy of sciences institutes. The Department of African languages of the Institute of Linguistics RAS has for decades been publishing a book series 'Studies in the languages of Africa' edited by the late Viktor Vinogradov. Its focus and topics are close to those of "Language in Africa", but the series wasnot truly international.The Department of Ethnography of Africa of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in cooperation with
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