Andrii Danylenko

List of John Benjamins publications for which Andrii Danylenko plays a role.

It is commonly accepted that the -(v)ši- resultatives in North Slavic are a product of the areal diffusion of a similar resultative formation in -vęs- (< *-ṷes-) from Baltic. The author argues that the anterior grammaticalization of the -(v)ši- resultative in North Slavic has been largely an… read more
The paper is concerned with the origin and the development of the Accusative with Infinitive (AcI) construction in Slavic. Looking into the areal-typological, diachronic, and socio-typological parameters of the AcI construction, the author introduces new Slavic dialectal and comparative material… read more
This article critically assesses probabilistic predictions on the theory of contact-induced grammaticalization of the comitative-instrumental polysemy in those Slavic languages which have had a history of long and intense interaction with either German or Italian. Having provided extensive… read more
Summary This paper presents a historical and typological interpretation of Slavic constructions of the type Ru čto za, Po co za, and the like, traditionally regarded as syntactic calques of the German was für. Basing his arguments on cross-linguistic and diachronic data, the author asserts that… read more