A new strategy for progressive marking and its implications for grammaticalization theory: the subject clitic construction of Pantiscu *

The Development of Relative Clauses in Modern Ukrainian: Lexical Variation over Syntactic Change

The paper argues that developments and changes in relative-clause formation in Ukrainian since the end of the 18th c. are due to lexical variation between a relative particle, typically ščo ‘that’, with or without a resumptive pronoun, and the relative pronouns jakyj and kotryj ‘which’. This repertory of relativisers i...

Where does that fit in? Morphological variation and reanalysis in Georgian placeholder verbs

The placeholder verb construction, which has emerged relatively recently in colloquial Georgian, offers a unique case study of grammaticalization in progress: the emergence of a structurally innovative type of verb within a language whose verbal morphology is already quite complex. Derived from reanalysis of the event-...

Towards a typology of progressive aspect marking in Sinitic: a pilot study

Abstract Compared with other aspects of grammar, the aspectual systems of Sinitic languages have received relatively more scholarly attention. Nevertheless, sample-wise, the existing studies are, generally speaking, neither balanced nor comprehensive; goal-wise, they aim at providing a descriptive account in general, r...

The Educational Value of Grammatical Transitivity in Teaching Russian: Syntactic Conditions for the Adverbialization of Nouns

In the professional training of philology students and future Russian-language teachers, it is especially important to develop the ability to justify the categorial status of ambiguous units. The article treats the adverbialization of prepositionless noun forms as material for developing that ability. The study aims to...

Reanalyzing perfects

Literary function of alla in counter-propositional constructions in comparison to de, kai, and asyndeton in John's gospel

Connectives, as insignificant as they may seem, are essential elements of a language to facilitate effective communication. The Greek New Testament is particularly replete in inter-sentential conjunctions. However, little attention has been devoted to the sentence-level contrasts and the connectives used in such contex...