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Die Semantik des Genitivs der Negation im Russischen

by Dimitrios Meletis

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Der Genitiv der Negation (GenNeg) stellt im Russischen eine komplexe Konstruktion dar, deren Facettenreichtum in der... more Der Genitiv der Negation (GenNeg) stellt im Russischen eine komplexe Konstruktion dar, deren Facettenreichtum in der Linguistik von interdisziplinärem Interesse ist. Seit Jahrzehnten wird geforscht und diskutiert, unter welchen Konditionen eine Alternation zwischen Nominativ und Genitiv in negierten Sätzen auftritt, seien es morphologische, syntaktische, lexikalische, semantische oder gar pragmatische Kriterien, die den Gen¬Neg bedingen. Die Beziehung zwischen Thema und Rhema und der davon abhängige Skopus der Negation sind ein kleiner Teil der Faktoren, die großteils einstimmig als essentielle (semantische) Ursache für das Auftreten des GenNeg erachtet werden und denen in der Literatur viel Beachtung geschenkt wurde. Diese Arbeit sammelt die markantesten Erkenntnisse dieser Richtung der Forschung, namentlich die von Babby (1980) und Borschev und Partee (1998, 2002, 2007), und versucht, einen summarischen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Forschung dieser speziellen Sparte der Untersuchung des GenNeg zu geben und diese anhand von prägnanten Beispielen anschaulich zu machen und zu überprüfen.

Future participles in Russian: Expanding the participial paradigm

by Ksenia Shagal

The research was carried out in collaboration with Denis Kirjanov.

This paper is concerned with the participial form which is an “outlaw” in the standard Russian language, but has... more This paper is concerned with the participial form which is an “outlaw” in the standard Russian language, but has structural means to be produced and is attested in a variety of texts, namely the future active perfective participle. The article investigates the syntactic properties of this form in comparison with its standard counterparts, provides the experimental data on its acceptability and makes an assumption about the reasons of emergence of future participles in the natural speech.

History in Person and Person in History: The Case of Preparation for Work in Russian Schools Before and After 1991

by Anna Popova

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Abstract. The issue of exploring historic transformations in social processes with regard to the individual... more Abstract. The issue of exploring historic transformations in social processes with regard to the individual development or social position is not new in social sciences; and yet history appears to be one of the most complex and controversial issues in social scientists’ debates. This article contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion of studying an individual in history and history in an individual. At the basis of the argument is a case study of transformations in preparation for work in Russian schools as a result of the
1991 political change, and the role of those transformations in students’ construction of future working lives. I argue that the structural nature of the social activity can be used as the first methodological entry point for studying historical aspects of social processes; the concept of personhood, understood as a socially formed system of long-life functions, forms a methodologically more abstract level of linking history and individual development. I conclude that when history is taken seriously in social research, analytic processes become all-inclusive in the analysis of social processes and individual development.

Взаимодействие культур и гибридизация языка

by Alexander Kravchenko

CROSSCULTURAL INTERACTION AND LANGUAGE HYBRIDIZATION

The role of language in mediating culture is... more CROSSCULTURAL INTERACTION AND LANGUAGE HYBRIDIZATION

The role of language in mediating culture is emphasized, and examples of language hybridization are given as an indication of ongoing changes in the Russian system of values.

Key words: language, culture, value system, language hybridization

Sexual Metaphors in Russian Erotic Chastushkas

by Denis Samburskiy

Глагольный вид и картина мира

by Alexander Kravchenko

Феноменология и когниция в семантике русского ЭТО

by Alexander Kravchenko

Процесс Перезазагруски Между России - США и Кавказский Фактор

by Orkhan Gafarli

Пионеры Процесс Pегенерации
Демократы, придя к власти в 2008 году, смогли открыть новую страницу во внешнейmore Пионеры Процесс Pегенерации
Демократы, придя к власти в 2008 году, смогли открыть новую страницу во внешней
политике США. В этом году на саммите в Мюнхене начался и по сей день продолжается
процесс перезагрузки. Архитектором перезагрузки является советник Б. Обамы по
делам России и Евразии Майкл Мокфол.

[in Russian] Freedom of Assembly as a Means of Civil Participation: Radical Right-Wing Movements and Their Constitutional Right to the Freedom of Assembly in Russia in the 2000s

by Galya Petrenko

Proceedings of the International Conference 'Freedom of Assembly as a Driver for the Development of Civil Participation Institutions at National and Global Levels' in Suzdal (Russia), 2011. Accepted for publication.

О номинативной функции местоимения ЭТО

by Alexander Kravchenko

Particelle post-verbali in inglese e prefissi in russo: due casi di modificazione verbale

by Francesca Masini

2003. In Bisetto, Antonietta, Claudio Iacobini & Anna M. Thornton (eds.), “Scritti di morfologia in onore di Sergio Scalise in occasione del suo 60° compleanno”, Cesena/Rome, Caissa Italia, 149-170.

Compounds in Russian

by Francesca Masini

2009. Published in “Lingue e Linguaggio” VIII (2) (2/2009), 171-193 [Special issue on “Compounds crosslinguistically” edited by Antonietta Bisetto]. Co-authored with Valentina Benigni.

Phrasal lexemes and shortening strategies in Russian: the case for constructions

by Francesca Masini

2012. Published in "Morphology" [Special issue on “Construction Morphology” edited by Geert Booij]. Co-authored with Valentina Benigni.

Nomi sintagmatici in russo

by Francesca Masini

2010. Published in "Studi Slavistici" VII, 145-172. Co-authored with Valentina Benigni.

Где мы в океане глобального мира? Центр и Периферия.

by Juris Gulbis

Многочисленные концепции модернизации современного мира предусматривали, чторазвивающиеся социоисторические структуры... more Многочисленные концепции модернизации современного мира предусматривали, чторазвивающиеся социоисторические структуры в 21 веке будут принадлежать к одному типу – капиталистическому по экономическому устройству национальных экономик и глобальной зависимости от транснациональных компаний и структур управления.
Но реалии жизни оказались показательно сложнее, ломая выстроенные авторитетные илогически выверенные системы, редактируя мировой порядок не только в сфере экономик, но и в области духовной жизни народов, разделив мир на две части : нагосударства лидеры и окраины современного мира (или государства Периферийного капитализма).
Представители «гиперглобалистов», такие как К. Омаэ, убеждали, «что современная глобализация означает новую эру в истории человечества, когда люди на Земле все в большой степени попадают в зависимость от порядков, царящих на мировом рынке».

A new cognitive framework for Russian aspect

by Alexander Kravchenko

The validity of the traditional approach to the semantics of verbal aspect in Russian based on the features... more The validity of the traditional approach to the semantics of verbal aspect in Russian based on the features “boundedness” and “totality” is questioned. It is argued that these features are not inherent in the meaning of all perfective verbs and cannot be regarded as the semantic invariant of aspectuality. A different approach is suggested, based on the analysis of morphological and syntactic evidence and on the assumption that the cognitive function of grammar is to categorize relevant human experience. It is shown that aspectual oppositions reflect the different cognitive statuses of the events expressed by paired verb lexemes: observed events are categorized in the form of aspectually marked verbs, whereas aspectually unmarked verbs categorize events without reference to observation. The grammatical meaning of aspect is defined as indication to the
source of information about the event which can be definite (based on observation), or indefinite (based on speaker’s knowledge), and has little to do with “boundedness” or “totality”. The suggested analysis is consistent with the central claim of autopoiesis as the theory of the living: "Everything said is said by an observer to another observer".

Russian verbs of spatial orientation "stand", "sit", "lie"

by Alexander Kravchenko

The Cognitive Roots of Gender In Russian

by Alexander Kravchenko

Entrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia: A review of empirical research

by Arto Ojala

Purpose - Entrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia have been of academic interest for over fifteen years. This... more Purpose - Entrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia have been of academic interest for over fifteen years. This paper brings together current knowledge concerning the phenomenon, and suggests further directions for research.

Design/methodology/approach - The study consists of a systematic review of forty-eight refereed empirical articles on entrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia.

Findings - From the articles reviewed it appears that entrepreneurs in Russia use non-material resources to overcome the financial and institutional obstacles which still seem to afflict the market. However, theoretical and methodological issues are, in many cases, poorly reported and this undermines the scientific rigor of the studies they report.

Research limitations/implications – Because of the wide scope of the studies reviewed the results included here provide somewhat broad-brush descriptions of the phenomenon. However, we believe that the findings are valuable for an understanding of the current situation for entrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia. The findings may also stimulate more in-depth research in this increasingly important topic.

Originality/value - To the best of our knowledge, no literature review on this topic has previously been published in academic journals.

Morphological complexity and unsupervised learning: validating Russian inflectional classes using high frequency data

by Dunstan Brown

Dunstan Brown and Roger Evans. Forthcoming. Morphological complexity and unsupervised learning: validating Russian inflectional classes using high frequency data. To appear in: Ferenc Kiefer, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár (eds) Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, Analogy and Frequency. Selected Papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13-16 May 2010. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

This paper addresses the question of whether it is possible to use machine learning techniques on linguistic data to... more This paper addresses the question of whether it is possible to use machine learning techniques on linguistic data to validate linguistic theory. We determine how readily inflectional classes recognized by linguists can be inferred by an unsupervised learning method when it is presented with the paradigms of a small number (80) of high frequency Russian noun lexemes.
We interpret this as a measure of the validity of the linguistic theory. Inflectional classes are of particular interest, because they constitute a kind of autonomous morphological complexity which has no direct relationship to other levels of linguistic description, and hence there is no other objective way of assessing a theoretical characterisation of them. Using the same
method, we also examine the status of principal parts and defaults in inflectional classes, and the relationship between inflectional classes and stress in Russian nominal morphology. Our experiments suggest that this is an effective and interesting technique for shedding additional light on theoretical claims.