Anastasia GerasimovaLomonosov Moscow State University | MSU · Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Anastasia Gerasimova
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Introduction
I am a second-year PhD candidate in Linguistics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, investigating agreement variation in Russian. In my research I primarily use methods of experimental syntax with particular interest in linguistic variation.
With my supervisor Prof. Dr. Habil. Ekaterina Lyutikova I teach two courses on experimental syntax at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Lomonosov MSU).
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This article addresses locality conditions on Negative Concord (NC) in Russian. We examine long-distance licensing of “negative” ni -pronouns in subject- and object-control infinitives. Existing theories of negative concord rely in one way or another on the movement of negative concord items (NCI): either as a direct licensing condition, or as a pr...
The paper examines locality conditions on licensing 'negative' (ni-) pronouns in Russian. Drawing on experimental data we show that ni-pronouns can be licensed out of the matrix clause in both subject and object control infinitives. We further argue that long-distance licensing occurs through expansion of the licensing domain to the inclusion of ar...
В докладе представлен новый инструмент для исследования грамматической вариативности в контексте экспериментального синтаксиса. В частности, мы показываем, что содержательный анализ индивидуального речевого поведения респондентов может уточнить диахронический статус языкового явления и определить наиболее вероятные пути его развития. Количественным...
This paper contributes to the task of defining the relationship between the results of production and rating experiments in the context of language variation. We address the following research question: how may the grammatical options available to a single speaker be distributed in the two domains of production and perception? We argue that previou...
Статья посвящена проблеме документирования активных языковых процессов, которая рассматривается на примере рассогласования по роду в русской именной и предикативной синтагме. Рассогласование по роду может возникать в контексте существительных, обозначающих человека по профессии и не имеющих женской родовой параллели. В русском языке выделяется неск...
This paper deals with the two sets of polarity sensitive items in Russian: ni- and -nibud’ pronouns. Non-specific indefinite -nibud’ pronouns (NSIs) are possible only in propositions that do not ensure truth, i.e. non-veridical contexts. Although clause-mate negation creates such a context, NSIs are incompatible with it and are substituted by negat...
В статье строится формальная модель для варьирования падежного оформления в татарских послеложных конструкциях с сочиненными именными группами. В татарских послеложных конструкциях выбор падежной формы зависимой именной синтагмы определяется ее морфолого-синтаксическим классом. Причем для послелогов, синхронно связанных с существительными, способы...
This paper addresses the issue of licensing negative polarity items in Russian nominalizations. Negation in nominalizations provides negative concord which licenses negative pronouns. Crucially, non-specific indefinite -nibud pronouns, which are usually prohibited in negative concord environments, are available in negated nominalizations, too. In...
В статье рассматриваются методы исследования внутриязыковой ва- риативности на материале падежного варьирования в послеложных конструкциях в татарском языке. Татарские послеложные конструкции обнаруживают дифференцированное падежное маркирование зависимого: выбор падежной формы определяется морфолого-синтаксическим классом зависимой именной синтагм...
В статье с помощью экспериментальных методов исследуется частотное распределение форм именительного и родительного падежа прилагательного в конструкциях с малыми числительными. Применяется две экспериментальных методики, которые позволяют оценить порождение и понимание исследуемых к понимание исследуемых конструкций. В результате устанавливается за...
Poster presented at the ConSOLE XXVII (The 27th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe)
In recent years, two theories have been advocated in the syntactic literature with respect to case assignment mechanisms, and this paper tests them based on new empirical material from Russian. One theory, advocated by Woolford and others, is Inherent Case Theory (ICT), which views case as an overt reflection of a relationship between a given noun...
This paper addresses the issue of case variation in Russian paucal constructions. Previous studies claim that the choice of the case marking on the adjectival constituent depends on the syntactic category of the paucal construction. Using experimental data we show that the distribution of case marking strategies differs for paucal constructions in...
In this paper we show that if we want to obtain human evidence about conventionalization of some phrases, we should ask native speakers about associations they have to a given phrase and its component words. We have shown that if component words of a phrase have each other as frequent associations, then this phrase can be considered as conventional...
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Project (1)
The proposed 2018 project aims at investigating word order typology, communicative-syntax interface and information structure in an open class of world languages including Indo-European and Non-Indo-European languages of Russian Federation, Europe and languages sharing with them given values of grammatical parameters. Modeling of the information structure-to-grammar interface involves two types of research
tasks: 1) parametrizing language-specific mechanisms which license word order and mark communicative status of sentence elements by segmental (e.g. adding morphosyntactic markers and function words) and supersegmental cues (word order, intonation); 2) optimizing formal models of grammar and developing modules and rules sets which predict changes in grammatical structure triggered by information structure.
We set following specific research tasks:
1) to investigate mechanisms of predicative, possessive and attributive agreement in a number of genetically unrelated languages and provide explanation in terms of the modern theories of agreement, clause structure and noun phrase structure. In order to achieve this goal we are going to develop an experimental methodology for an adequate empirical study of these phenomena in the context
of multivariate selection of agreement strategy.
2) to study syntactic properties of complex predicative constructions in their synchronic and diachronic aspect. The evidence will come from correlative constructions and complex predicates in Ossetic; the study will be put into the context of other Iranian languages and Caucasian languages. We will also study the structure and the form of clausal complements of the matrix verb ‘think’ based on the representative sample of the world's languages and compare the results with the existing generalizations about the realization of propositional arguments with the verbs of thought.
3) to analyze the interaction of communicative, prosodic and syntax-internal factors in Slavic and Germanic sentences with modal operators; 4) to examine the impact of information structure categories, and — in a broader perspective — the impact of the speech act parameters on the syntactic structure of the utterance. In this respect, two syntactic issues are of special interest: fragmentation in question-answer pairs and integration of vocatives into syntactic and semantic structure of the utterance.
5) to describe syntax of light verbs and serialization in two languages, Chukchi and Chuvash; investigating the information structure of various semantic types of serializations and revealing communicative factors influencing peculiar properties of corresponding constructions.
6) to create a parametric typology of endoclitics and to provide an account to the phenomenon of syntactic insertion into the morphological structure, which is supposedly operated by the mechanisms of syntactic-prosodical and morphological-syntactic interfaces.
