Space in Diachrony
Edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] 2017. xvii, 370 pp.
Tatiana Nikitina
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tatiana Nikitina plays a role.
Title
Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Chapter 4. The use of interjections as a discourse phenomenon: A contrastive study of Chuvash (Turkic) and Wan (Mande) Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra and Simone Mattiola (eds.), pp. 65–89 | Chapter
This study describes and compares two conventionalized uses of interjections in traditional narratives in Chuvash (Turkic) and Wan (Mande). First, interjections are shown to be associated with a quotative function: they help signal instances of reported speech. The use of interjections interacts… read more
2020 Logophoricity and shifts of perspective: New facts and a new account Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence, Spronck, Stef, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 78–99 | Article
This study presents a typology of existing approaches to logophoricity and discusses problems the different approaches face. It addresses, in particular, perspective-based accounts describing constructions with logophoric pronouns in terms of their intermediate position on the direct-indirect… read more
2018 Chapter 7. Focus marking and differential argument marking: The emergence of bidirectional case marking in Wan Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 195–216 | Chapter
Wan makes use of a bidirectional case marker that does not attach to either the subject or the object but serves to separate core arguments that would otherwise be adjacent. The use of this optional marker depends on factors that are known to condition alignment splits in other languages (such as… read more
2017 Space in Diachrony: An introduction Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. xi–xviii | Article
2017 Ablative and allative marking of static locations: A historical perspective Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 67–94 | Chapter
The study addresses the diachronic relationship between locative marking and the marking of goals and sources of motion. In ancient Indo-European languages, and in some modern ones, static spatial relations can be described by means of inherently dynamic expressions, which are normally used for… read more
2013 Lexical splits in the encoding of motion events from Archaic to Classical Greek Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events, Goschler, Juliana and Anatol Stefanowitsch (eds.), pp. 185–202 | Article
This chapter explores diachronic evidence from Ancient Greek as a source of data on the categorization of motion verbs. Over its recorded history, Ancient Greek undergoes a change in the dominant goal-encoding strategy: from Homer to Classical Greek, it gradually develops into a consistently… read more
2010 Chapter 11. Variation in the encoding of endpoints of motion in Russian New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion, Hasko, Victoria and Renee Perelmutter (eds.), pp. 267–290 | Article
In Russian, as in a typical satellite-framed language, endpoints of motion are usually introduced by specialized directional PPs (such as combinations of a preposition with the accusative case). With a small set of verbs, however, the endpoint of motion can instead be introduced by locational PPs.… read more
2009 The syntax of postpositional phrases in Wan, an “SOVX” language Studies in Language 33:4, pp. 910–933 | Article
In the study of word order typology, the SOVX word order pattern of Mande is often viewed as exceptional and explained diachronically as a “type in transition”. This paper argues against that view based on analysis of the sentence structure of Wan (Southeastern Mande). I show that the SOVX word… read more
2008 Pragmatic factors and variation in the expression of spatial goals: The case of into vs. in Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, Asbury, Anna, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke and Rick Nouwen (eds.), pp. 175–109 | Article