update

data.csv

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 year,month,day,author,title,abstract
+2023,12,12,"Natalia Logvinova (HSE, IL RAS)",Concord in Russian close appositional constructions: a quantitative study,"In this talk I will discuss case concord in Russian close appositional constructions, which manifests itself in optional case concord of the proper name (v rek-e Don-e/ v rek-e Don ‘in the river Don’). The study provides an in-depth corpus analysis of more than 15,000 examples, using a logistic regression statistical model to predict the choice between presence and absence of concord. The results indicate concord is most likely to occur in constructions with structurally simple and frequent proper names that exhibit adjectival properties and match the common noun in grammatical gender. Proper names with the Goal semantic role show concord with a higher probability than proper names with other roles. It is proposed that all relevant factors refer to frequency or convenience. A diachronic investigation shows that concord has become a much less preferred option over time. It is argued that concord is of low functional significance and suggest that this may explain the gradual loss of concord over time."
+2023,12,12,"Polina Nasledskova (HSE, IL RAS)",Topological relations in Kina Rutul,"Kina variety of Rutul (< Lezgic < East Caucasian) has several different means for describing spatial relations. In this study, I analyze the way topological relations are described in Kina Rutul by means of spatial cases, spatial adverbs and postpositions, and spatial verbal prefixes. The data for this study was collected in field in 2019 and is based on a questionnaire ""Topological relations picture series"" by Bowerman&Pederson (1992). This talk depicts my first attempt at analyzing the collected data and this work is still in progress. My main objective is to determine in which contexts the spatial meanings of case, adverb/postposition and verbal prefix are different and what aspects of topological relations each of these elements relate to."
+2023,12,5,"Sofia Oskolskaya (ILS RAS, HSE) in collaboration with Anna Smetina (IL RAS) and Natalya Stoynova (University of Hamburg)",Analysis of the Gorin Nanai texts from A. P. Putintseva’s text collection (1935-1936),"Gorin is the most northern Nanai dialect which is spread along the Gorin river, to the North from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The ancestors of the Gorin speakers used to speak a Northern Tungusic language and shifted to Nanai about 150 years ago. Gorin Nanai is highly endangered and very poor-documented. A. P. Putintseva collected 18 notebooks of texts in Nanai during her work in 1935-1936. More than a half of the texts were recorded from Gorin Nanai speakers. Her manuscripts contain a lot of her own corrections. In our talk, we will focus on analysis of these corrections. We believe that some of them may reveal underdescribed dialectal features of Gorin Nanai."
+2023,12,5,Andrey Chirkin (HSE),Reading group: Kilu von Prince (2019) Counterfactuality and past,"Many languages have past-and-counterfactuality markers such as English simple past. There have been various attempts to find a common definition for both uses, but I will argue in this paper that they all have problems with (a) ruling out unacceptable interpretations, or (b) accounting for the contrary-to-fact implicature of counterfactual conditionals, or (c) predicting the observed cross-linguistic variation, or a combination thereof. By combining insights from two basic lines of reasoning, I will propose a simple and transparent approach that solves all the observed problems and offers a new understanding of the concept of counterfactuality."
 2023,11,28,"Vladimir Plungian (MSU, IL RAS, RLI, HSE)",Quechua “restrictive” marker *=lla*: semantic and morphosyntactic properties,"“Restrictive” markers (like Latin solum, English only etc.) represent an important type of units involved in the organization of discourse: being almost pervasive in the world’s languages, they often have unobvious patterns of polysemy, as well as non-trivial morphosyntactic properties.
 
 Quechua is no exception to this phenomenon. The restrictive marker =lla is attested in all Quechuan idioms (surfacing in slightly different phonetic shape). My talk addresses the variety of its uses mostly in Ecuadorian Quechua (or Kichwa) and elaborates on two main features of interest. Firstly, =lla exhibits a surprisingly wide polysemy in non-nominal domain, ranging from diminutive to focus-contrastive uses. Secondly, it displays a unique morphosyntactic behavior that suggests an intermediate status between a mesoclitic and an affix. I will present the main facts and discuss possible ways of accounting for these intriguing properties.

result_en.html

@@ -52,6 +52,50 @@ <h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="seminars-of-linguistic-convergence-laborato
 <h3 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="seminar-schedule-2023">Seminar schedule 2023</h3>
 <div class="columns">
 <div class="column" style="width:15%;">
+<p><strong>12 December</strong></p>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:85%;">
+<p><em>Natalia Logvinova (HSE, IL RAS)</em></p>
+<p><strong>Concord in Russian close appositional constructions: a quantitative study</strong></p>
+<details>
+<summary>
+Abstract
+</summary>
+In this talk I will discuss case concord in Russian close appositional constructions, which manifests itself in optional case concord of the proper name (v rek-e Don-e/ v rek-e Don ‘in the river Don’). The study provides an in-depth corpus analysis of more than 15,000 examples, using a logistic regression statistical model to predict the choice between presence and absence of concord. The results indicate concord is most likely to occur in constructions with structurally simple and frequent proper names that exhibit adjectival properties and match the common noun in grammatical gender. Proper names with the Goal semantic role show concord with a higher probability than proper names with other roles. It is proposed that all relevant factors refer to frequency or convenience. A diachronic investigation shows that concord has become a much less preferred option over time. It is argued that concord is of low functional significance and suggest that this may explain the gradual loss of concord over time.
+</details>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:15%;">
+
+</div><div class="column" style="width:85%;">
+<p><em>Polina Nasledskova (HSE, IL RAS)</em></p>
+<p><strong>Topological relations in Kina Rutul</strong></p>
+<details>
+<summary>
+Abstract
+</summary>
+Kina variety of Rutul (&lt; Lezgic &lt; East Caucasian) has several different means for describing spatial relations. In this study, I analyze the way topological relations are described in Kina Rutul by means of spatial cases, spatial adverbs and postpositions, and spatial verbal prefixes. The data for this study was collected in field in 2019 and is based on a questionnaire “Topological relations picture series” by Bowerman&amp;Pederson (1992). This talk depicts my first attempt at analyzing the collected data and this work is still in progress. My main objective is to determine in which contexts the spatial meanings of case, adverb/postposition and verbal prefix are different and what aspects of topological relations each of these elements relate to.
+</details>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:15%;">
+<p><strong>5 December</strong></p>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:85%;">
+<p><em>Sofia Oskolskaya (ILS RAS, HSE) in collaboration with Anna Smetina (IL RAS) and Natalya Stoynova (University of Hamburg)</em></p>
+<p><strong>Analysis of the Gorin Nanai texts from A. P. Putintseva’s text collection (1935-1936)</strong></p>
+<details>
+<summary>
+Abstract
+</summary>
+Gorin is the most northern Nanai dialect which is spread along the Gorin river, to the North from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The ancestors of the Gorin speakers used to speak a Northern Tungusic language and shifted to Nanai about 150 years ago. Gorin Nanai is highly endangered and very poor-documented. A. P. Putintseva collected 18 notebooks of texts in Nanai during her work in 1935-1936. More than a half of the texts were recorded from Gorin Nanai speakers. Her manuscripts contain a lot of her own corrections. In our talk, we will focus on analysis of these corrections. We believe that some of them may reveal underdescribed dialectal features of Gorin Nanai.
+</details>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:15%;">
+
+</div><div class="column" style="width:85%;">
+<p><em>Andrey Chirkin (HSE)</em></p>
+<p><strong>Reading group: Kilu von Prince (2019) Counterfactuality and past</strong></p>
+<details>
+<summary>
+Abstract
+</summary>
+Many languages have past-and-counterfactuality markers such as English simple past. There have been various attempts to find a common definition for both uses, but I will argue in this paper that they all have problems with (a) ruling out unacceptable interpretations, or (b) accounting for the contrary-to-fact implicature of counterfactual conditionals, or (c) predicting the observed cross-linguistic variation, or a combination thereof. By combining insights from two basic lines of reasoning, I will propose a simple and transparent approach that solves all the observed problems and offers a new understanding of the concept of counterfactuality.
+</details>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:15%;">
 <p><strong>28 November</strong></p>
 </div><div class="column" style="width:85%;">
 <p><em>Vladimir Plungian (MSU, IL RAS, RLI, HSE)</em></p>

result_ru.html

@@ -52,6 +52,50 @@ <h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="семинары-международная
 <h3 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="расписание-семинаров-в-2023-году">Расписание семинаров в 2023 году</h3>
 <div class="columns">
 <div class="column" style="width:15%;">
+<p><strong>12 декабря</strong></p>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:85%;">
+<p><em>Natalia Logvinova (HSE, IL RAS)</em></p>
+<p><strong>Concord in Russian close appositional constructions: a quantitative study</strong></p>
+<details>
+<summary>
+Аннотация
+</summary>
+In this talk I will discuss case concord in Russian close appositional constructions, which manifests itself in optional case concord of the proper name (v rek-e Don-e/ v rek-e Don ‘in the river Don’). The study provides an in-depth corpus analysis of more than 15,000 examples, using a logistic regression statistical model to predict the choice between presence and absence of concord. The results indicate concord is most likely to occur in constructions with structurally simple and frequent proper names that exhibit adjectival properties and match the common noun in grammatical gender. Proper names with the Goal semantic role show concord with a higher probability than proper names with other roles. It is proposed that all relevant factors refer to frequency or convenience. A diachronic investigation shows that concord has become a much less preferred option over time. It is argued that concord is of low functional significance and suggest that this may explain the gradual loss of concord over time.
+</details>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:15%;">
+
+</div><div class="column" style="width:85%;">
+<p><em>Polina Nasledskova (HSE, IL RAS)</em></p>
+<p><strong>Topological relations in Kina Rutul</strong></p>
+<details>
+<summary>
+Аннотация
+</summary>
+Kina variety of Rutul (&lt; Lezgic &lt; East Caucasian) has several different means for describing spatial relations. In this study, I analyze the way topological relations are described in Kina Rutul by means of spatial cases, spatial adverbs and postpositions, and spatial verbal prefixes. The data for this study was collected in field in 2019 and is based on a questionnaire “Topological relations picture series” by Bowerman&amp;Pederson (1992). This talk depicts my first attempt at analyzing the collected data and this work is still in progress. My main objective is to determine in which contexts the spatial meanings of case, adverb/postposition and verbal prefix are different and what aspects of topological relations each of these elements relate to.
+</details>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:15%;">
+<p><strong>5 декабря</strong></p>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:85%;">
+<p><em>Sofia Oskolskaya (ILS RAS, HSE) in collaboration with Anna Smetina (IL RAS) and Natalya Stoynova (University of Hamburg)</em></p>
+<p><strong>Analysis of the Gorin Nanai texts from A. P. Putintseva’s text collection (1935-1936)</strong></p>
+<details>
+<summary>
+Аннотация
+</summary>
+Gorin is the most northern Nanai dialect which is spread along the Gorin river, to the North from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The ancestors of the Gorin speakers used to speak a Northern Tungusic language and shifted to Nanai about 150 years ago. Gorin Nanai is highly endangered and very poor-documented. A. P. Putintseva collected 18 notebooks of texts in Nanai during her work in 1935-1936. More than a half of the texts were recorded from Gorin Nanai speakers. Her manuscripts contain a lot of her own corrections. In our talk, we will focus on analysis of these corrections. We believe that some of them may reveal underdescribed dialectal features of Gorin Nanai.
+</details>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:15%;">
+
+</div><div class="column" style="width:85%;">
+<p><em>Andrey Chirkin (HSE)</em></p>
+<p><strong>Reading group: Kilu von Prince (2019) Counterfactuality and past</strong></p>
+<details>
+<summary>
+Аннотация
+</summary>
+Many languages have past-and-counterfactuality markers such as English simple past. There have been various attempts to find a common definition for both uses, but I will argue in this paper that they all have problems with (a) ruling out unacceptable interpretations, or (b) accounting for the contrary-to-fact implicature of counterfactual conditionals, or (c) predicting the observed cross-linguistic variation, or a combination thereof. By combining insights from two basic lines of reasoning, I will propose a simple and transparent approach that solves all the observed problems and offers a new understanding of the concept of counterfactuality.
+</details>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:15%;">
 <p><strong>28 ноября</strong></p>
 </div><div class="column" style="width:85%;">
 <p><em>Vladimir Plungian (MSU, IL RAS, RLI, HSE)</em></p>