The Big Challenges with Small Numerals in Russian: Linguistic Complexity and Corpus Evidence Russian numerals are famous for their syntactic complexity. We examine the behavior of four Russian paucal numerals poltora 'one and a half', dva 'two', tri 'three', četyre 'four' and the quantifier oba 'both'. These small numerals can admit variation in the forms of the words that collocate with them, ...

Inalienability in North Saami On the basis of corpus data (9.5M words 1997–2010) we claim that North Saami is developing a grammatical distinction between alienable and inalienable possession. In previous work we documented a language change in North Saami in which the possessive suffix as in girjji-id-easkka [book-acc.pl-3pl] ‘their books’ is being replaced by an analytic construction with the ...

We present a new open-access electronic resource named the Russian Constructicon that offers a searchable database of Russian constructions accompanied by descriptions of their properties and illustrated with corpus examples. The project was carried out over the period 2016-2020 and at present contains an inventory of over 2200 multi-word constructions of Contemporary Standard Russian. We prioritize ...

The article presents the most central particles in Southern Sami, and argues that they constitute a separate part of speech different from adverbs. Most particles usually occur in the second position of the sentence, but several particles may also occur in second position in complex verb phrases, i.e. in third position in the sentence. A group of words have in previous research been treated as ...

<p>2017 marked 100 years since the October Revolution, the consequences of which are well known to everyone. 100 years ago Olaf Broch wrote to Aleksey Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov: «No matter how turbulent the times are, we should not forget about people, about individuals.»1 It is these words that contain the main idea of this article that shows Broch not only as a researcher, linguist and dialectologist ...

The present article presents an empirical investigation of the choice between so-called long (e.g., prostoj ‘simple’) and short (e.g., prost ‘simple’) forms of predicate adjectives in Rus- sian, based on data from the syntactic subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus. The data under scrutiny suggest that short forms represent the dominant option for predicate adjec- tives. It is proposed that ...

Discussing Wordsworth’s poem “Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” Geoffrey Tillotson writes that “Goody herself . . . could not have given a more telling account of her way of life” (7). I wonder. Goody Blake, like other cottagers, had ample time to think, spinning days away in a house by herself. She may have participated more fully in the life of her community than Wordsworth did and therefore been able ...

Janne Bondi Johannessen ble medlem av DNVA så sent som i 2019. Hun rakk altså bare å være medlem i litt over et år før hun gikk bort 15. juni 2020, bare 59 år gammel. Hun forlot en aktiv og produktiv forskergjerning som ble brått avbrutt – og hennes utallige aktiviteter ble rett og slett hengende i luften: en konferanse, flere publikasjoner, et bokprosjekt, en redaktørgjerning, prosjektsøknader og ...

Human communication is by default polysemiotic: it involves the spontaneous combination of two or more semiotic systems, the most important ones being language, gesture, and depiction. We formulate an original cognitive-semiotic framework for the analysis of polysemiosis, contrasting this with more familiar systems based on the ambiguous term “multimodality.” To be fully explicit, we developed ...

På midten av 1970-tallet ble fem, unge samiske kunstnere, Synnøve Persen (f. 1950), Aage Gaup (f. 1943), Josef Halse (f. 1951), Ingunn Utsi (f. 1948) og Maja Dunfjeld (f. 1947), invitert av Norsk kulturråd til å lage utkast til utsmykking av Láhpoluoppal skole i Kautokeino kommune. Den samiske kunstneren Iver Jåks (1932 – 2007) og skolens arkitekter sto bak initiativet. Utsmykkingen sto ferdig 1980, ...