Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia
Edited by Lars Johanson, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli and Irina Nevskaya
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 206] 2019. vi, 405 pp.
Irina Nevskaya
List of John Benjamins publications for which Irina Nevskaya plays a role.
Title
Subjects Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Numeral classifiers in Kazakh Classifiers, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (ed.), pp. 300–330 | Article
Many languages distinguish numeral classifiers in their grammar systems categorizing nominals in terms of their inherent nature, such as animacy, shape, form, and arrangement. Kazakh, a Turkic language of Central Asia, distinguishes numeral classifiers, which are used in numeral classifier… read more
2019 Superlative readings of possessive constructions in Turkic: A comparative perspective Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia, Johanson, Lars, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli and Irina Nevskaya (eds.), pp. 205–238 | Chapter
The article describes the superlative, hyperlative and elative use of formally possessive constructions in a number of Turkic languages from a comparative perspective, analyzing their structural and semantic types and pragmatic properties. Similar possessive superlative constructions are found all… read more
2014 Chapter 12. Innovations and archaisms in Siberian Turkic spatial case paradigms: A Transeurasian historical and areal perspective Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Robbeets, Martine and Walter Bisang (eds.), pp. 257–286 | Chapter
Case systems in Siberian Turkic are an excellent example for studying paradigm change between continuity and innovation. In spite of all shared and individual innovations and developments, the core of the Proto-Turkic case paradigm remains stable here. Most innovations in Turkic case paradigms of… read more
2014 Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), pp. 67–90 | Article
This paper gives an overview of South Siberian Turkic biverbal constructions with auxiliary verbs of existence, location, posture and motion and their grammaticalization ways. Their lexical component bears markers of non-finite verb forms; their auxiliary component gets finite morphology. They… read more
2005 Inclusive and exclusive in Turkic languages Clusivity: Typology and case studies of the inclusive–exclusive distinction, Filimonova, Elena (ed.), pp. 341–358 | Chapter