Papers by Tatiana Reznikova
Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies, Jun 19, 2023
The article is devoted to the linguistic characteristics of the database "Diachronicon" and descr... more The article is devoted to the linguistic characteristics of the database "Diachronicon" and describes the features of the diachronic markup of Russian language constructions, as well as tags specially designed for searching through a diachronic database. A special comment field used in the database is separately justified. In addition, the computer interface of the "Diachronicon" is presented and described. The developed resource provides extensive opportunities for systematic study of not only specific constructions, but also general mechanisms of idiomatization and grammaticalization. The database allows the researcher to simultaneously compare several separate plots, search through a list of constructions and their characteristics in diachrony, track the history of syntactic and semantic changes and limitations of compatibility of different constructions.
Атрибутивы как источник грамматикализации: ‘прямой’ и ‘ровный’ в русском, немецком и финском языках
On the Development of an Abstract Meaning: Verbs of Doing and Making in a Diachronic Perspective
Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka
The paper discusses the process of semantic generalization, i.e. semantic evolution from a more c... more The paper discusses the process of semantic generalization, i.e. semantic evolution from a more concrete to a more abstract meaning. We focus on the development of verbs of doing as evidenced by available etymological data of Germanic, Slavic, Turkic, Semitic and some other languages. The general line of this development goes from the idea of creating a certain type of objects (cf. ‘cook’) via a more general meaning of any action that results in creation of a new entity (cf. Engl. make) to the expression of any telic action and then to a verb of any (including atelic) agentive activity. This evolution is challenging from a theoretical standpoint since it exhibits a complex interaction between metonymic and metaphorical mechanisms of semantic change.
Jezikoslovni zapiski (Tiskana izd.), Sep 27, 2022
Semantična kontinuiteta v medjezikovni perspektivi: primeri iz slovanskih glagolov za potiskanje ... more Semantična kontinuiteta v medjezikovni perspektivi: primeri iz slovanskih glagolov za potiskanje in vlečenje V prispevku so predstavljeni nekateri rezultati medjezikovne raziskave glagolov vlečenja in potiskanja v devetih slovanskih jezikih. Ti podatki postavljajo pod vprašaj tradicionalno predstavo pomenskega polja kot jasnega razreda leksikalnih enot. Zaradi semantičnega sosedstva se polja lahko prekrivajo, tako da lahko v različnih jezikih isti dogodek opisujejo glagoli, ki bi bili po tradicionalnem pristopu uvrščeni v različna semantična polja. Kršitev medpoljnih mej dokazujejo tako sinhroni kot diahroni podatki. Ključne besede: leksikalna tipologija, glagoli povzročenega gibanja, okvirni pristop, pomensko polje This article presents some results of cross-linguistic research on verbs of pushing and pulling in nine Slavic languages. These data call into question the traditional notion of the semantic field as a clear-cut class of lexical units. It is shown that, due to semantic adjacency, fields may overlap, so that in different languages the same event may be described by verbs that would be assigned to different semantic fields in the traditional approach. The violation of inter-field boundaries is evidenced by both synchronic and diachronic data.
Verbs of hiding: A typology of systems
Вопросы языкознания, 2022
Russian Journal of Linguistics
The combination of perfective aspect and present tense is frequently considered as an example of ... more The combination of perfective aspect and present tense is frequently considered as an example of semantically incompatible grams. If verbal forms including markers of both perfective aspect and present tense do exist in a language, they tend not to express present resp. perfective in the strict sense. Thus, in Russian such forms usually convey the future, as in napishu ‘I will write’. The article discusses a specific type of contexts where these forms develop a less trivial meaning of what can be called “prospective present”. Obligatory components of these contexts are first person of the verb and negation. We focus on three instances of this kind : ne skazhu (lit. ‘I won’t tell’), ne dam (lit. ‘I won’t give’) and ne pushchu (lit. ‘I won’t let’)’. With the data of Russian National Corpus (RNC) and notably of the parallel corpora within RNC, we demonstrate that in certain uses, these constructions correspond to speech acts of refusal or prohibition and can be viewed, accordingly, as ...
Chapter 3. A matter of degree?
The Typology of Physical Qualities
Chapter 1. Introduction
The Typology of Physical Qualities
On Semantic Continuity: the Domain of ‘Pushing’ in Slavic Languages
Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka, 2021
The paper examines the semantic domain of ‘pushing’ on the material of 8 Slavic languages. We foc... more The paper examines the semantic domain of ‘pushing’ on the material of 8 Slavic languages. We focus on the cases where the zone of caused motion intersects with adjacent fields. The analysis shows that lexical contiguity occurs at two levels. First, at a synchronic level: lexemes that refer to a caused motion event may also cover meanings from an adjacent zone. Second, in a diachronic perspective: as a result of historical changes, verbs may lose their source semantics, completely shifting to a contiguous field.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009
The paper describes a research carried out in the Russian National Corpus project (www.ruscorpora... more The paper describes a research carried out in the Russian National Corpus project (www.ruscorpora.ru). We discuss a method of word sense disambiguation, which is now being applied to polysemous adjectives in the RNC. The approach implies formulating rules to select the appropriate sense of the adjective by using co-occurrence restrictions observed in the corpus. The disambiguating filters operate with various kinds of grammatical and semantic information on the adjectives and the nouns modified. Our results demonstrate that the semantic filters are effective for WSD.
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016
The article deals with the methodology and techniques of lexical typological studies. It focuses ... more The article deals with the methodology and techniques of lexical typological studies. It focuses on the cross-linguistic analysis of semantic areas that are deeply involved in semantic derivation processes, i.e. they either make a wide use of words coming from other semantic domains (as is the case with pain predicates) or frequently give rise to extended meanings (as e.g. rotation verbs, sound verbs, aqua-motion verbs, adjectives of quality). Based on these data, we propose a general approach to a lexical-typological study -a frame-based approach. It is argued that semantic comparison should rely on a set of conceptual frames that underlie the domains under examination and that can be revealed through the analysis of word combinability in natural texts (corpora, spontaneous speech, etc.). The results obtained by this approach can be easily visualized as semantic maps, in which nodes are associated with frames. This technique is illustrated by several examples, which testify to its applicability not only to well-attested domains of semantic typology (like colors, body parts, cutting and breaking, etc.), but also to less observable and highly metaphorical domains. The typological analysis of these areas is appealing, as it allows not only to investigate their lexical organization, but also to compare, in a systematic way, the semantic shifts observed in different languages. Lexical typology is gaining recognition as a sub-discipline of descriptive linguistics. Three major reviews (Rakhilina and Plungian 2007; Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2008; Evans 2010) have come out recently which show that an increasing number of researchers and research groups are comparing words not in two, but a dozen or two dozen, languages at a time (cf. Viberg 1983; Newman (ed.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
The paper gives a cross-linguistic insight into the domain of falling predicates. The research em... more The paper gives a cross-linguistic insight into the domain of falling predicates. The research employs the methods based on combinability restrictions of lexical items in different languages developed by the Moscow Lexical Typology Group. The basic typologically relevant parameters that constitute the domain are the object of a falling event, the source of the motion and the goal of the motion. The lexical data presented in the study was collected from more than 20 languages.
Doing Lexical Typology with Frames and Semantic Maps
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Polysemy Patterns in Russian Adjectives and Adverbs
Studies in Language Companion Series, 2013
Towards a typology of pain predicates
Linguistics, 2000
4. A Frame-based methodology for lexical typology
The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts, 2000
Conceptualization of Pain: A Database for Lexical Typology
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009
Abstract. The paper presents a study in lexical typology. We focus on the se-mantic domain of pai... more Abstract. The paper presents a study in lexical typology. We focus on the se-mantic domain of pain as one of the most universal and complex areas of hu-man experience. The predicates of unpleasant bodily sensations are compared in a sample of 23 languages. The ...
The semantic domain of pain seems to be unique in that, crosslinguistically, it includes few pred... more The semantic domain of pain seems to be unique in that, crosslinguistically, it includes few predicates that are specifically dedicated to pain (like hurt or ache); instead, the major part of the field is constituted by lexical units drawn from other semantic domains, which are applied to pain through processes of semantic derivation (like my eyes are burning, my throat is scratching ). After discussing methodological considerations concerning data collection, the a rticle first analyzes the semantic sources for pain predicates and addresses the issue of their typological consistency, based on data from over 20 languages. It is then demonstrated that the evolution of a pain meaning cannot be reduced to a merely semantic process, since the meaning shift may be accompanied by changes in the morphological, morphosyntactic and/or syntactic properties of the source verb. We suggest the term "re-branding" for the complex meaning changes of this kind and discuss their theoretical relation to the well-established notions of metaphor and metonymy.
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