25 ноября. Научный семинар Международной лаборатории языковой конвергенции
Zaira Khalilova (Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, HSE University)
Typology of verbal borrowings in Tsezic and beyond
Khwarshi, which is distant and geographically separated from the other Tsezic languages and surrounded by Avar- and Andic-speaking villages, combines all three strategies identified by Wohlgemuth (2009) for the integration of borrowed verbs: a light verb strategy is used for Russian borrowings, while both direct and indirect insertion are used for borrowings from Avar and Andic. Combining several strategies in a single language is typologically a rare phenomenon; the other Tsezic languages make use of only one integration strategy. The paper explains the factors underlying the distribution of verbal borrowing strategies within the Tsezic languages. The crucial factor accounting for this distribution is the variation found across the family in the degree of bilingualism and language contact with donor languages.
2 декабря. Научный семинар Международной лаборатории языковой конвергенции
Maria Pupynina (IL RAS)
To be announced
9 декабря. Научный семинар Международной лаборатории языковой конвергенции
Maria Ermolova (HSE University)
Gerunds in the Russian language of the 17th century: a transitional period in the history of their grammatical development
Abstract
In the talk it will be demonstrated that the contexts indicating the fixation of the predicate function for gerunds in dependent adverbial clauses, recorded in the 18th century, are absent in the 17th century (at least not documented in our sample). At the same time, the material from the 17th century illustrates an earlier stage in the evolution of gerunds and shows how they lost their temporal meaning, acquiring a relative one depending on the tense of the main predicate, while still remaining formally autonomous predication.