Katia Paykin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Katia Paykin plays a role.
2023 Chapter 3. Impersonal existence in the weather domain: French il y a vs. il fait Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions, Sarda, Laure and Ludovica Lena (eds.), pp. 68–99 | Chapter
This contribution examines the co-existence in French of two impersonal constructions with a light verb and a weather noun, as in il y a / il fait du vent ‘it’s windy’ (lit. there is / it makes wind). Our starting point stems from Bauer’s (2000) observations on Vulgar Latin postulating that… read more
2017 Chapter 9. Additive relations in L2 French: Contrasting acquisitional trends of Italian and Russian learners Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, De Cesare, Anna-Maria and Cecilia Andorno (eds.), pp. 265–310 | Chapter
Our study compares the expression of additive relations in oral native (French, Italian, Russian) and non-native discourse (French L2), elicited with the same visual stimulus. On the basis of a comparative analysis of native productions, we argue that, in additive contexts, Russian clearly shares… read more
2013 Adjectifs d’évaluation de comportement Lingvisticæ Investigationes 36:1, pp. 20–55 | Article
The article proposes a unified analysis of Behavior Evaluation Adjectives (BEA), like gentil ‘kind’ or prudent ‘wise’, whether the quality expressed is attributed to a human subject (Tu es vraiment gentil de nous aider ‘You are really kind to help us’) or to his/her behavior (Nous aider est… read more
2013 The Russian genitive within the NP and the VP The Genitive, Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.), pp. 55–104 | Article
This paper deals with the genitive case in Russian as present within the NP and the VP. We argue that although semantic factors sometimes condition genitive marking, the Russian genitive is not sensitive to the thematic properties of the head and is therefore closer to the structural cases,… read more
2010 Il pleut des idées reçues: NP expansions of weather verbs French Syntax in Contrast, Lahousse, Karen, Béatrice Lamiroy and Kristel Van Goethem (eds.), pp. 253–266 | Article
This article reassesses N. Ruwet’s (1988) attribution of the label “unaccusative” to weather verbs across the board. Through a cross-linguistic analysis of NP expansions (in French, English and Russian), we argue that only metaphorically used French weather verbs and English weather verbs in… read more