Laboratory seminars
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Seminar schedule 2023
7 February
Reading group: Hübler N. 2022 Phylogenetic signal and rate of evolutionary change in language structures. R. Soc. Open Sci. 9: 211252.
Anastasiya Ivanova (HSE)
Abstract
Work in progress on using typological distributions to identify language family homelands
Johanna Nichols (Berkeley, HSE)
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31 January
New Testament as a parallel corpus, and parallel corpus as a typological data base: a different look
Konstantin Filatov (HSE), Vladimir Plungian (MSU, IL RAS, RLI, HSE)
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Reading group (K. Filatov):
Dahl, Ö. & B. Wälchli. 2016. Perfects and iamitives: two gram types in one grammatical space. Letras de Hoje 51(3). 325. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2016.3.25454.
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24 January
Ordinal numerals in sign languages
Polina Nasledskova (HSE)
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Reading Group: Margetts, A., Haude, K., Himmelmann, N. P., Jung, D., Riesberg, S., Schnell, S., Seifart F., Sheppard H., Wegener, C. (2022). Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of bring and take. Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”, 46(4), 934-993.
Daria Ryzhova (HSE)
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17 January
An outline for studying the system of verbal patterns in Urmi Neo-Aramaic
Elena Shvedova (HSE)
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Reading Group: Schreur, J. W., Allassonnière-Tang, M., Bellamy, K., & Rochant, N. (2022). Predicting grammatical gender in Nakh languages: Three methods compared. Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2(2), 93-126.
Kirill Chuprinko (HSE)
Seminar schedule 2022
20 December
Tomsk dialect corpus as a comprehensively annotated resource
Svetlana Zemicheva (HSE)
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13 December
A speaker-oriented study of dialectal features in Selkup
Maria Brykina (The University of Hamburg), Josefina Budzisch (The University of Hamburg), Sergei V. Kovylin (Laboratory «Linguistic Platforms» Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the RAS, Moscow; Tomsk State Pedagogical University)
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Towards a working definition of "verbal grammatical system"
Konstantin Filatov (HSE)
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6 December
Semantic factors in case loss: the Serbian-Bulgarian dialectal continuum
Masha Kyuseva (Surrey Morphology Group)
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Reading Group: Poplack, S., & Levey, S. (2010). Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale. Language and space: An international handbook of linguistic variation, 1, 391-419.
Chiara Naccarato (HSE)
29 November
Functions of additive particle =lo in Zilo Andi (in the wake of the fieldtrip in September 2022)
A. Russkikh (HSE)
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Reading Group: Larsson, Egbert, Biber (2022) On the status of statistical reporting versus linguistic description in corpus linguistics: a ten-year perspective
S. Zemicheva (HSE)
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22 November
TALD (Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan): Update
Chiara Naccarato, George Moroz, Konstantin Filatov, Asya Alekseeva, Anastasiya Ivanova, Maria Godunova, Maksim Melenchenko, Timofey Mukhin, Ilya Sadakov, Elena Shvedova (HSE)
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15 November
Contact-induced change in Tsova-Tush: a small typology of clause combining
Jesse Wichers Schreur (University of Groningen)
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Reading group: Kalinina, E., & Sumbatova, N. (2007). Clause structure and verbal forms in Nakh-Daghestanian languages. Finiteness: Theoretical and empirical foundations, 183-249.
Konstantin Filatov (HSE)
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8 November
Describing narrow focus marking: a typological framework
Yury Lander (HSE)
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Reading Group: Martti Leiwo (2020) L2 Greek in Roman Egypt: Intense language contact in Roman military forts
Anastasia Yakovleva (HSE)
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25 October
The Botlikh fieldtrip of August 2022: the materials collected and the conclusions made about the semantics of -ɬːu and -ɬi spatial markers
Sara Zadykian (independent researcher), Polina Artemeva (independent researcher)
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Approaching (verbal) colexifications in Andic dictionaries
Daria Ryzhova (HSE)
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18 October
Automatic Detection of Borrowings in Low-Resource Languages of the Caucasus: Andic Branch
Konstantin Zaitsev (HSE), Anzhelika Minchenko (HSE)
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Morphological transducers: from 0 to 40 000 forms
George Moroz
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Morphological transducer for Even
Tanya Kazakova (HSE)
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Exploring the limits of HFST tools
Daniil Ignatiev (HSE)
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11 October
Towards a typology of “small” eventualities: on discontinuatives and verbal diminutives
Ilya Makarchuk
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Reading group: Rice (2006) Ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork
Polina Nasledskova
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4 October
Jalgan-Mitagi Tat: sociolinguistics and affiliation
Yuri Koryakov
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Reading group: Cysouw and Forker (2009)
Timur Maisak
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20 September
Typologically oriented questionnaire for describing additive functions
Alina Russkikh
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Multifunctional additive particles in Rutul dialects: a microtypology
Ivan Netkachev (HSE University)
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13 September
A database for Arabic, Persian, and Turkic loanwords in Dagestanian languages
T. Dedov, S. Verhees
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Update: Tsnal Lezgian Spoken Corpus
I. Sadakov
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Reading Group
G. Moroz
28 June
Postpositions in East Caucasian? An areal-typological study of a category development
Polina Nasledskova & Tatiana Philippova
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Language vitality and attitudes in Botlikh (Dagestan)
Samira Verhees
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14 June
History of the spread of /f/ in southern Daghestan
Nikita Beklemishev (HSE University)
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7 June
Dialectal variability and diachrony of numeral systems in East Caucasian languages
Maksim Melenchenko
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31 May
Size matters? Testing size effects in gender assignment in four East Caucasian languages
Rita Popova & Michael Daniel (HSE University)
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24 May
Сложные глаголы с идеофонами в диалекте даргинского языка с. Цугни
Gasangusen Sulaibanov (École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL, Paris, France)
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17 May
Morphological marking of “meditative” questions in Nakh-Daghestanian languages
Timur Maisak
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26 April
Евреи Дагестана: история, современное состояние этнической группы и памятники материального наследия
Светлана Амосова (Еврейский музей и центр толерантности, ИСл РАН)
Михаил Васильев (Центра «Сэфер», ИЯ РАН)
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19 April
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12 April
Borrowings and contacts in basic vocabulary and classification
Evgeniya Korovina (Institute of Linguistics, RAS)
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29 March
Тысячелетняя история письменности на языках народов Дагестана: взгляд сквозь призму веков
Рамазан Абдулмажидов (ИИАЭ ДНЦ РАН), Шахбан Хапизов (ИИАЭ ДНЦ РАН)
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22 March
Days after tomorrow in the languages of Daghestan
Timofey Dedov (HSE University)
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Systems of grammatical cases in the languages of Daghestan
Katerina Dagkou (University of Groningen)
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15 March
Zok, the Armenian dialect of Agulis
Katherine Hodgson (University of Cambridge)
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1 March
The role of proto-wordlists in modern historical-comparative studies: from phonetic and semantic to "onomasiological" reconstruction
George Starostin (Centre for Comparative Studies and Phylogenetics of the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE / External Fellow, Santa Fe Institute)
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22 February
Typological patterns and the language dynamics of the ancient Central Andes and South America
Matthias Urban (University of Tübingen)
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15 February
16:30—17:10
Reported Speech Constructions without Regular Quotation Meaning: A Crosslinguistic Analysis
Daniela Casartelli (University of Helsinki)
17:10—17:50
Contact-induced innovations at the interface: the case of subject pronouns in heritage languages
Alberto Frasson (Utrecht University)
8 February
16:00—16:40
The Kurdish Imperfective: Diachronic, Typological, and pan-Iranian Perspectives
Shuan Karim (The Ohio State University)
16:40—17:20
Differential Object Marking in Ossetic: A corpus-based analysis
Emine Şahingöz (Goethe University Frankfurt)
17:20—18:00
Chepang’s direct-inverse system in need of historical, epistemic, and pragmatic explanations
Marie-Caroline Pons (University of Oregon)
1 February
Looking for areal patterns in the domain of discourse formulae:
The case of blessings and curses in Daghestan
Pavel Astafiev, Nikita Beklemishev, Nina Dobrushina & Alina Russkikh (in alphabetical order)
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25 January
Detecting regional areal patterning across multiple linguistic features. A discussion
Chiara Naccarato, Ezequiel Koile, Michael Daniel, Nina Dobrushina, Samira Verhees (Linguistic Convergence Laboratory)
Aleksey Vinyar, Alexandra Nogina, Daria Ignatenko, Tatiana Kazakova, Alexey Baklanov, Ksenia Lapshina (Arctic Lab)
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18 January
Language contact between Mano and Kpelle: a holistic research program
Maria Khachaturyan (University of Helsinki)
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11 January
Adjectival agreement in the East Caucasian languages: an overview
Aigul Zakirova
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Seminar schedule 2021
21 December
Postpositions in East-Caucasian languages: a description and comparative perspective
Polina Nasledskova & Tatiana Philippova
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14 December
Detecting linguistic variation with geographic sampling
Ezequiel Koile & George Moroz
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7 December
Field NLP and where to find it in the School of linguistics
A.Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.Klyachko, S. Kosyak, L.Nesterenko, G.Moroz, O.Serikov, S.Toldova
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30 November
Studying language contact using neighbour graphs: From consonant-inventory prediction to analysis of segment borrowability
Dmitry Nikolaev (University of Stuttgart)
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23 November
К реконструкции древних контактов языков Северной Сибири
Валентин Гусев (Институт языкознания РАН)
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16 November
Chaplinsky and other Yupik languages of Chukotka: sociolinguistic situation and a case study in grammar
Anastasia Panova
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9 November
Comparing cross-language phonological profiles
George Moroz
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26 October
Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate
Susanne Michaelis (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
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19 October
Assessing inter-speaker variation in contact-influenced Russian
Natalya Stoynova
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5 October
Computational processing of Bagvalal morphology: problems and future tasks
Daniil Ignatiev, Nick Howell, George Moroz
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28 September
Several aspects of numeral morphology in the languages of Dagestan
Maxim Melenchenko & Aigul Zakirova
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21 September
Exploring socio-spatial networks and individual-based variation in the study of small-scale multilingualism
Pierpaolo di Carlo, Jeff Good (University of Buffalo)
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14 September
Geography and language divergence: the case of Andic languages
Ezequiel Koile, Ilya Chechuro, George Moroz, Michael Daniel
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7 September
Update: Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan
George Moroz, Timofey Mukhin, Chiara Naccarato and Samira Verhees
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15 June
Postpositions in Nakh-Daghestanian
Polina Nasledskova, Tatiana Philippova
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Comparative Andic dictionary database: history of creation
George Moroz
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8 June
Towards a typology of continuative expressions
Anastasia Panova
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1 June
Solving the puzzle of the Ob-Ugric passive
Nikita Muravyev & Daria Zhornik
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25 May
Looking for areal convergence in nominal gender assignment in East Caucasian
Ilya Chechuro & Michael Daniel
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18 May
On tense, aspect, and evidentiality in Karata (East Caucasian, Karata village variety)
Jérémy Pasquereau (University of Poitiers)
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11 May
Karabagly - an Armenian village in Dagestan
Samira Verhees
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20 April
Grammatical co-expression patterns in creoles and their parent languages: comitative and related functions
Susanne Maria Michaelis (MPI-EVA, Leipzig)
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13 April
From noun plural to plural agreement: evidence from Andi dialects (and beyond)
Aigul Zakirova
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6 April
Squaring the circle in the Caucasus: Perspectives on Sprachbünde and Language Contact
Thomas Wier (Free University of Tbilisi)
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30 March
Contact influences on Ossetic: A general overview
Oleg Belyaev
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23 March
Linguistic complexity across East Caucasian: from the eye of the beholder to corpus based measures
Anastasia Panova & Michael Daniel
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16 March
Multilingualism as a genre-structuring strategy: the case of Kakabe traditional narratives
Alexandra Vydrina
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9 March
Revisiting motion events in Basque
Manuel Padilla-Moyano (University of the Basque Country & Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE)
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4 March
Rare features in phonological typology
Natalia Kuznetsova
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Modern South Arabian: archaism, innovation and contact in the Arabian peninsula
Giuliano Castagna
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2 March
Form and function in morphological typology
Tim Zingler
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A Functional Discourse Grammar typology of reflexives, with some notes on reciprocals
Riccardo Giomi
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The prefixal template of Umóⁿhoⁿ: case study of the “dative” prefix
Julie Marsault
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16 February | Towards the Nakh-Daghestanian Lexicon of Grammaticalization Abstract |
9 February | Adpositions and case: Categorial issues Abstract |
2 February | Towards the corpus of Bagwalal dialects Abstract |
26 January | On typology of caritive constructions Abstract |
19 January | Postposed -to in North Russian dialects through the lens of Finnic languages in contact Abstract |
12 January | Dagatlas Update Abstract Borrowed postpositions in East Caucasian Abstract |
Seminar schedule 2020
22 December | Using BivalTyp (www.bivaltyp.info) for measuring (dis)similarities between valency class systems Abstract |
15 December | Multifunctional non-finites in Northern Eurasia Abstract |
8 December | Good Practices for Linguistic Data Abstract |
1 December | Lexical systems with systematic gaps: verbs of falling Abstract |
24 November | Data transformations for processing of interlinear glossed texts in SIL FLEx |
17 November | Особенности функционирования дагестанских транслокальных сообществ в условиях внутрироссийской миграции Abstract |
10 November | An ancient history bottleneck for linguistic diversity and its consequences for linguistic typology Abstract |
3 November | Clitics li and chi in Rogovatoye and Spiridonova Buda dialects: functions and positional properties Abstract |
27 October | Optatives in Nakh-Daghestanian and beyond Abstract |
20 October | The standard of comparison in the languages of Daghestan Abstract |
13 October | Inter-speaker variation in code-switching in the situation of language shift. The case of Nanai and Ulch Abstract |
6 October | Сorrelations between linguistic distances with geography in Daghestan Abstract |
29 September | Phonetic fieldwork and experiments with the phonfieldwork package for R: rOpenSci review Abstract |
22 September | A corpus of Tsnal Lezgian Abstract |
15 September | From spatial deixis to anaphora: data from Lezgic and Tsezic Abstract |
8 September | Reflexive and the generic use of the second-person pronoun in Kakabe Abstract |
30 June | Verbal agreement and voice in the Uralic languages of Western Siberia Abstract |
23 June | Quantitative Linguistic Geography of Daghestan Abstract |
16 June | Anchiq Karata indicative morphology. Allomorphy, inflectional classes and possible diachronic puzzles Abstract |
9 June | Borrowings, frequency and lexical change Abstract |
2 June | Alternative recipient marking in Ossetic: Once-in-a-lifetime clearest case of contact induced change Abstract |
26 May | The emphatic particle =gu in Andi dialects Abstract |
19 May | Native speakers simplify their language when writing to non-natives on an internet forum Abstract |
12 May | Elevation as a grammatical and semantic category of demonstratives Abstract |
28 April | Verbal morphological complexity in Lezgic languages Abstract |
21 April | Initial report on documentation of Sagada, Tsez Abstract |
14 April | Sentence Focus in Kakabe Abstract |
7 April | Preposition drop and language contact: The case of Daghestanian Russian Abstract |
31 March | Greek diglossia: a case study of spatial marking in Katharevousa Abstract |
24 March | What is a quotative evidential, and does it exist? Abstract |
17 March | Denominal postposition in East Caucasian languages Abstract Anaphora and spatial deixis in East Caucasian: an overview of the data Abstract |
10 March | Non-canonical inverse in Circassian and Abaza: borrowing of morphological complexity Abstract |
3 March | Non-pro-drop in the Baltic Area: for and against contact-induced origin Abstract |
25 February | Typological atlas of Daghestan: state of affairs and future plans Abstract |
18 February | A dialectometric study of Albanian varieties: linguistic complexity and language contact history Abstract |
11 February | Contact-influenced Russian of Northern Siberia and the Russian Far East Abstract |
4 February | Bayesian phylogenetic analysis and wordlist handling Abstract |
28 January | Correlates of Language Shift in Population Groups vs. Epigraphic Cultures Abstract |
21 January | The speakers of minority languages are more multilingual Abstract |
14 January | The particle =OK in the Volga-Kama languages: contexts of use and frequencies of lexicalization Abstract |
Seminar schedule 2019
24 December | Ethnicity, speaking indigenous languages and fertility in the North Caucasus Abstract |
17 December | The periphrastic causative in West Circassian Abstract |
10 December | A detailed corpus study of preposition drop in DagRus: preliminary results Abstract |
3 December | Causative alternations database Abstract The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications CLICS³: Data-driven semantic research from a cross-linguistic perspective Abstract |
26 November | Challenges of variation Abstract Catching variation during fieldwork on Nakh-Daghestanian languages Abstract |
19 November | Enets in space and time: a study in linguistic geography and history Abstract |
12 November | Fouta-Djallon multilingualism Abstract |
29 October | Morphosyntax of complement clauses in East Caucasian languages: long-distance agreement Abstract |
22 October | Subgroups, linkages and beyond: Working on shared innovations in Eastern Polynesian languages Abstract |
15 October | Glottalized /lˀ/ in Rikvani Andi Abstract |
1 October | Fieldtrip to Botlikh (Daghestan) Abstract The Third School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (University of Potsdam, Germany) |
24 September | Phylogeography of the Bantu Expansion Abstract Contact-influenced word order in genitive noun phrases: A corpus-based investigation of Russian spoken in Daghestan Abstract |
17 September | Lingua francas as lexical donors: quantitative field study Abstract |
11 June | Contact-influenced word order in genitive noun phrases: A corpus-based investigation of Russian spoken in Daghestan Abstract |
4 June | Animacy agreement in Botlikh: ordinal numeral Abstract |
28 May | A database of census in Daghestan |
23 April | Research on a variative phenomenon in Russian varieties of Daghestan and native speakers: Preliminary results (based on experimental data) Numeral classifiers in Udi as a contact-induced development |
9 April | Rutul dictionary: new resource A database for structural borrowings from Azerbaijani into Lezgic languages Vowel quantity as the distinction of spatial forms in Kina Rutul: an experimental study |
2 April | IngRel, DagRel, and others: Relativization and the accessibility hierarchy in ergative languages, with implications for corpus databases |
26 March | Language change in Northwest Amazonia: grammatical categories |
19 March | When genetic and linguistic transmission do not coincide: emerging patterns from multiple studies |
26 February | The scope of refactive markers in Abaza Abstract |
12 February | Noun vs. verb inflectional synthesis: A complexity trade-off? A database for loanwords in Daghestan Abstract |
5 February | Bayes Factor: Bayesian way without diving in Bayesian maze Abstract Typological atlas of multilingualism in Daghestan: problems and perspectives |
29 January | The u+gen construction in Modern Standard Russian Abstract |
22 January | Kunbarlang Abstract |
15 January | Sequence of tenses in Russian? Tense choice in complement clauses in Standard and Learner Russian Abstract |
Seminar schedule 2018
Seminar schedule 2017
19 September | Daghestanian Loans Abstract |
26 September | Daghestanian Multilingualism Abstract |
3 October | Daghestanian Stops Abstract |
10 October | Spoken Meadow Mari corpus: data, design, and aims Abstract |
19 October | Universal Dependencies for Mehweb Dargwa Abstract |
26 October | Dialectal Variation in Even based on Corpora of Field Recordings Abstract |
7 November | Circassian Isoglosses Abstract |
14 November | Prosodic Analysis of Non-standard Russian Spontaneous Speech Abstract |
21 November | Corpus of Russian spoken in Daghestan Abstract |
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