Russian Language

Reference recalibration repairs: Adjusting precision for the task at hand

by Galina Bolden

Lerner, G., Bolden, G., Hepburn, A., and Mandelbaum, J. (2012). Reference recalibration repairs: Adjusting precision for the task at hand. Special issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction, 45(2) (Eds. Celia Kitzinger & Gene Lerner), 191-212.

Grammatical flexibility as a resource in explicating referents

by Galina Bolden

Bolden, G. and Guimaraes, E. (2012). Grammatical flexibility as a resource in explicating referents. Special issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction, 45(2) (Eds. Celia Kitzinger & Gene Lerner), 156-174.

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo & Vsevolod Kapatsinski. 2012. The apprehensive: Fear as endophoric evidence and its pragmatics in English, Mandarin, and Russian. Journal of Pragmatics, 44(4), 346-73.

by Vsevolod Kapatsinski

Ономастический статус этнонимов и категория одушевленности / неодушевленности (=The Propriality of Ethnonyms and the Category of Animacy / Inanimacy)

by Alexander Grishchenko

published in 'Russkij Jazyk v Shkole', 2011, No. 9, pp. 61-67

The article touches upon the correlation
observed between the ethnonyms and the respective
generic names... more The article touches upon the correlation
observed between the ethnonyms and the respective
generic names (the words narod, natsiya, etnos etc.
'people; ethnic group’) with regard to the category of
animacy / inanimacy.

Review: Anikin A. E.: Etimologicheskij slovar' russkix zaimstvovanij v jazykax Sibiri. Probnye stat'i. Chast' 1.

by Marek Stachowski

Politeness as a feature: so important and so rare.

by Greville G. Corbett

Published: Linguistik online 51,1/2012. Available at: http://linguistik-online.org/51_12/corbett.html
This is a section from the book Features, in press with Cambridge University Press

Politeness has a major place in many languages, and is remarkably pervasive in some. Yet we rarely find respect as a... more Politeness has a major place in many languages, and is remarkably pervasive in some. Yet we rarely find respect as a morphosyntactic feature, alongside gender, person, number and case. I document this imbalance, and then ask why this is what we find.

Adjective movement

by Greville G. Corbett

A developmental study of the acquisition of Russian colour terms

by Greville G. Corbett

Determining morphosyntactic feature values

by Greville G. Corbett

Gender assignment: a typology and a model

by Greville G. Corbett

Predicate agreement in Russian

by Greville G. Corbett

Agreement: the range of the phenomenon and the principles of the Surrey Database of Agreement

by Greville G. Corbett

The Slavonic Languages

by Greville G. Corbett

Bernard Comrie and Greville G. Corbett (editors) 1993. The Slavonic Language. London: Routledge.

Gender in Russian: An account of gender specification and its relationship to declension

by Greville G. Corbett

A Siberian word for ‘pipe’ and its possible Indo-European cognates

by Kamil Stachowski

Agreement

by Greville G. Corbett

Greville G. Corbett. 2009. Agreement. In: Sebastian Kempgen, Peter Kosta, Tilman Berger and Karl Gutschmidt (eds) Die Slavische Sprachen/The Slavic Languages: An International Handbook of their Structure, their History, and their Investigation, Volume I, 342-354. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

The agreement hierarchy

by Greville G. Corbett

Greville G. Corbett. 1979. The Agreement Hierarchy. Journal of Linguistics, 15, no. 2, 203-224. [Reprinted in Francis X. Katamba (editor) 2003. Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, IV: Morphology and Syntax, 48-70. London, Routledge.]

Hierarchies, targets and controllers: Agreement patterns in Slavic

by Greville G. Corbett

Greville G. Corbett. 1983. Hierarchies, targets and controllers: Agreement patterns in Slavic. Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm. The book is now out of print, but used copies are available, for instance through Amazon. Part can be viewed on Google Books.

The morphology/syntax interface: evidence from possessive adjectives in Slavonic

by Greville G. Corbett

Gender, animacy, and declensional class assignment: a unified account for Russian

by Greville G. Corbett

Norman Fraser & Greville G. Corbett. 1995. Gender, animacy and declensional class assignment: a unified account for Russian. In: Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1994. Dordrecht: Kluwer. pp. 123-50. [Note: the Yearbook for a given year was published the next year.]