The collective monograph has been published
30.01.2024
The collective monograph "Elements of Hill Mari from the typological point of view" (the title in Russian: "Элементы горномарийского языка в типологическом освещении") has been published as a result of our field project. It is primarily focused on grammatical phenomena: semantics of nominal and verbal categories, morphosyntax of noun phrases and postpositional phrases, valency-changing operations, clause syntax, polypredication etc. The book also includes a sociolinguistic sketch and basic information on phonology. Some lexical domains are discussed as well. Text samples are provided.
We are grateful to everyone who helped our project!
The pdf-version of the book will be made available later.
24.12.2023
Recently, Egor Kashkin participated in the Conference in honor of the 55th anniversary of Sergei Tatevosov (16 December 2023, online). The talk was dedicated to the scalar analysis of complex predicates in Hill Mari and beyond.
11.11.2023
Co-authored paper by Vadim Dyachkov and Sergey Tatevosov "Глаголы от прилагательных: предельность и событийная структура" [Deadjectival verbs: telicity and event structure] was published in the Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology, vol. 3 (41).
20.09.2023
A conference “Languages of Russia in contact with the Russian language” was held at the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (RAS) on Septemper, 15-16 2023. Egor Kashkin presented a talk on pattern borrowing in lexical semantics. The talk by Maria Winkler was devoted to reanalysis in the semantic field "clean". Abstracts and presentations are available on our website.
17.09.2023
An article by Egor Kashkin discussing regular properties of complex predicates was published in Siberian Journal of Philology (№3/2023). The full text is available here.
07.04.2023
New articles of our team members have been published. The article by Vadim Dyachkov in the journal "Ural-Altaic Studies" (in English) deals with the properties of denominal verbs. Maria Winkler analyzes collective numerals in Hill Mari and Udmurt in her article included into the volume "Minor languages in general linguistics" (in Russian).
26.01.2023
An article by Daria Mordashova has been published in Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology (№3/2022). It analyzes strategies of encoding volition in Hill Mari from a typological and areal perspective.
19.01.2023
New publications and conference presentations have been uploaded to the website. They deal with binominals (Polina Pleshak), discourse functions of possessives (Irina Khomchenkova), numeral constructions (Maria Winkler), reflexives (Irina Burukina), indefinite pronouns (Natalia Kalanova), complex predicates (Egor Kashkin), desideratives (Daria Mordashova), comitatives and caritives (Irina Khomchenkova), comparatives (Julia Sinitsyna) and their structural comparison with exceptives (Irina Khomchenkova, Julia Sinitsyna), polypredicative structures (Polina Pleshak), lexical semantics (Anna Danilova, Egor Kashkin), language contact (Vadim Dyachkov, Egor Kashkin, Irina Khomchenkova, Polina Pleshak), prosody (Polina Pleshak). The articles have been published, in particular, in the journals Folia Linguistica and Linguistica Uralica, as well as in some peer-reviewed volumes.
29.01.2022
Articles by Egor Kashkin and Anna Danilova were published in the proceedings volume of the conference "Minority languages in large linguistics" (2021). The paper by Egor Kashkin analyzes expressions of loudness in Hill Mari and Tatyshly Udmurt from the areal and typological perspective (see the full text in Russian), and the paper by Anna Danilova deals with the properties of n-converbs (see the full text in Russian).
09.01.2022
A workshop "Emerging topics in typology" was organized by the University of Helsinki in the autumn of 2021. The presentations made by Irina Khomchenkova on the properties of the comitative affix -ge and by Julia Sinitsyna on the polysemy patterns of Hill Mari standard and degree markers are now available at our website.
23.12.2021
An article by Tanya Davidyuk and Ksenia Studenikina on nominal causal markers was published in the journal Acta Linguistica Petropolitana (№1, 2021). The full text is available here (in Russian).
01.12.2021
On 18 November 2021, Egor Kashkin took part in the seminar "Across Russia with love", organized by the Department of theoretical and applied linguistics together with the Department of ethnology (Faculty of history, MSU). His talk (in Russian) dealt with the studies on Hill Mari in our project. The video of the seminar is stored here.
22.07.2021
The article by Daria Mordashova was published in №2/2021 of the journal "Ural-Altaic Studies". It deals with the semantics of imperative modifiers =aj, =jä, -ə̑ma. The full text is available here.
01.05.2021
On 23–24 April 2021, OTIPL MSU organized a conference «Minority languages in large linguistics». Many of our team members took part in it. Egor Kashkin discussed lexemes ‘quiet’ and ‘loud’ in Hill Mari and in Tatyshly Udmurt from an areal perspective (see abstract and slides; all the materials are in Russian). The talk by Daria Belova dealt with the domains of ‘sharp’ and ‘blunt’ in Hill Mari (see abstract and slides). Daria Mordashova analyzed the expressions of volition (see abstract and handout). Anna Danilova presented the results of her research on n-converbs (see abstract and handout). Julia Sinitsyna discussed the polysemy of the similative affix ‑la (see abstract and slides).
The conference schedule also included the talks by Vadim Dyachkov, Irina Khomchenkova, Nikita Muravyev, and Polina Pleshak. Their talks dealt with various issues of Moksha, Ossetic, Ob-Ugric and Dogon.
The conference schedule also included the talks by Vadim Dyachkov, Irina Khomchenkova, Nikita Muravyev, and Polina Pleshak. Their talks dealt with various issues of Moksha, Ossetic, Ob-Ugric and Dogon.
02.04.2021
On 25–27 March 2021, a conference «Language issues: a young scholar’s perspective» was organized by IL RAS. Its schedule included the talk by Nikita Muravyev on some properties of converbs with the marker ‑meškə̈ (see abstract and handout). In addition, the list of participants included Vadim Dyachkov, who discussed incorporation of adjectives in the languages of the Western Africa, and Irina Khomchenkova: her individual presentation dealt with omission of prepositions in the variety of Russian used by Samoyedic speakers, and her joint talk with Daria Zhornik focused on comitatives in Northern Mansi.
27.03.2021
On 19–21 March 2021, The University of Pennsylvania organized the 45th Penn Linguistic Conference. Its programme included a talk by Polina Pleshak who discussed the syntax of participial clauses with nominative and genitive subjects (see abstract and slides).
01.03.2021
On 19–20 February 2021, the University of Toronto organized a conference TU+6 dealing with the Turkic languages and languages in contact with Turkic. Irina Khomchenkova and Maxim Fedotov presented a co-authored talk on caritive constructions in Chuvash and Hill Mari (see abstract and slides).
22.02.2021
On February 11–13 2021, Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the RAS in cooperation with Institute of Linguistics of the RAS organized a conference «Indigenous languages of Russia in contact with Russian». Egor Kashkin presented a talk on the Russian speech of Hill Mari speakers (see abstract and slides both in Russian). A joint talk by Irina Khomchenkova and Natalya Stoynova dealt with the use of Russian subordinating conjunctions in three languages including Hill Mari (see abstract in Russian together with the English version and slides in English). Irina also delivered a talk on the use of Russian words in Ossetic speech.
06.02.2021
An article by Egor Kashkin and Daria Mordashova on Hill Mari was published in the section "Languages of Russia" at the popular science website "Postnauka". Egor contributed to two more articles in this section: they deal with Moksha and Northern Khanty.
02.02.2021
A conference "Causal constructions in the World's languages (synchrony, diachrony, typology)" was organized by IL RAS on 28-30 January 2021. Its programme included the talk by Tanya Davidyuk on nominal causal constructions in the Finno-Ugric languages, including Hill Mari (see abstract and slides in Russian).
27.01.2021
An article by Irina Khomchenkova was published in the proceedings volume of ConSOLE XXVIII. It deals with the properties of exceptive constructions (e. g. Everyone came except Peter) in Hill Mari and Moksha. The full text is available here.
25.01.2021
The article by Vadim Dyachkov (co-authored with Maria Strygina) has been published in the journal Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. It deals with semantic and syntactic features of Hill Mari pluractional markers. The text is available here (in Russian).
27.12.2020
The proceedings volume of the conference commemorating N. Ignatyev (2019) has been published. It includes the article (in Russian) by Egor Kashkin on the text corpus created in our field project.
15.12.2020
A workshop on the Volga-Kama languages was organized by IL RAS and HSE on 11-12 December 2020. Some of our team members took part there. Polina Pleshak analyzed nominative and genitive subject marking in non-finite clauses (see the slides). The talk by Nikita Muravyev dealt with some semantic features of converbs with the marker -meškə̈ (see the handout).
11.11.2020
The Second school-conference on Uralic studies was organized by IL RAS. Tanya Davidyuk presented a talk there on the use of the suffix -ə̑n / -ə̈n in Hill Mari postpositions and pronominal adverbs. The abstract and the slides are available at our website (both in Russian).
07.11.2020
A conference in memoriam of V. A. Zvegintsev also devoted to the anniversary of the Department of theoretical and applied linguistics was organized on 30-31 October 2020. Its programme included two talks of our team members. Egor Kashkin analyzed the semantic functions of complex predicates (see abstract and slides in Russian). Julia Sinitsyna and Irina Khomchenkova compared some properties of comparative and exceptive constructions (see abstract and slides in Russian).
29.10.2020
A conference "Languages of the peoples of Siberia and neighbouring regions" was organized from 14 till 17 October in Novosibirsk. Egor Kashkin presented there a talk on complex predicates with the verb näläš 'take' (see abstract and handout in Russian). The talk by Vladimir Ivanov dealt with the interaction of languages and cultures in Finno-Ugric folk tales.
11.10.2020
Our team members published their articles in the volume of the journal Acta Linguistica Petropolitana focused on verbs of falling and on verbs from some adjacent domains. The article by Egor Kashkin (see the full text in Russian) deals with the verbs meaming 'pour', 'flow' in Hill Mari, Komi and Western Khanty. The joint article by Egor Kashkin and Daria Mordashova (see the full text in Russian) describes verbs of throwing in Hill Mari. Daria has one more article in this volume (co-authored with Aleksandra Livanova), in which verbs of falling in Norwegian are discussed.
09.10.2020
Our team members published their articles in the festschrift for the 60-th Birthday of prof. V. A. Plungian. The article by Egor Kashkin (see the full text in Russian) discusses complex predicates with the verb šoaš 'reach'. Irina Khomchenkova (see the full text in Russian) analyzes comitative constructions with the meaning of togetherness in several languages including Hill Mari. Besides, the volume includes the article by Daria Mordashova on the semantics of modal constructions *vilja til in Scandinavian languages.
22.09.2020
The conference "Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar (EESLiG)" was organized by the University of Oxford on 15-16 September 2020. Its programme included the talk by Vadim Dyachkov, who presented a typological study of the morphological structure and the event structure of deadjectival verbs, relying on the data of Hill Mari, among others. The abstract and the slides are available at our website.
25.04.2020
On April 17-18 2020 the Department of theoretical and applied linguistics of MSU organized a conference "Minority languages in large linguistics" in the online form. Many of our team members took part in it. The talk by Egor Kashkin (see abstract and slides, both in Russian) dealt with the grammaticalization of the verb anžaš 'look'. The talk by Natalia Kalanova (see abstract and slides, both in Russian) was focused on the morphological properties of free choice indefinite pronouns. Daria Mordashova (see abstract and handout, both in Russian) discussed constructions with the grammaticalized desiderative form ə̑lnežə̈ (in addition, Daria took part in a collective presentation of a new website on minority languages). Anna Danilova (see abstract and handout, both in Russian) analyzed the semantic domain of CROOKED.
Some more talks dealt with other languages. Vadim Dyachkov discussed word order in Natioro. The talk by Maria Sidorova was about approximative numeral constructions in Yakut. Anita Soloveva analyzed some properties of universal quantifiers in Kazym Khanty. Irina Khomchenkova studied comitatives in Tatyshly Udmurt.
Some more talks dealt with other languages. Vadim Dyachkov discussed word order in Natioro. The talk by Maria Sidorova was about approximative numeral constructions in Yakut. Anita Soloveva analyzed some properties of universal quantifiers in Kazym Khanty. Irina Khomchenkova studied comitatives in Tatyshly Udmurt.
25.03.2020
The articles by our team members were published in the journal "Acta Linguistica Petropolitana", №2/2019. A co-authored paper by Tanya Davidyuk and Ksenia Studenikina deals with the polysemy of the elative postposition gə̈c, putting the main focus on its use in constructions with physical contact verbs. The article by Julia Sinitsyna considers the morphological and semantic properties of the similative marker -la. The same volume includes the article by Anita Soloveva, who discusses pseudo-partitive constructions in the subdialect of Mikryakovo.
29.02.2020
An interview with Egor Kashkin, Irina Khomchenkova and their colleague Natalya Stoynova was published at the website "Nauka i zhiznj". It deals with the contact between Russian and other languages spoken in Russia, as well as with some general issues of academic work.
The interview is available here (in Russian).
The interview is available here (in Russian).
20.02.2020
On February 16 Egor Kashkin participated in the program "Govorim po-russki" at the radio station "Echo Moskvy". It was devoted to the indigenous languages of Russia and their interaction with Russian. The recording is available here.
10.02.2020
Egor Kashkin and Irina Khomchenkova together with Natalya Stoynova, their colleague from RLI RAS, received an award of the Government of Moscow for young scholars for their research of the contact situation between Russian and indigenous languages of Russia. A short piece of news on it is available here (in Russian). Some pictures from the award ceremony, which took place on February 7, can be viewed here.
01.02.2020
A conference CONSOLE 28 was held in Barcelona from 29 till 31 January 2020. Irina Khomchenkova presented there a talk dealing with the syntax of exceptives (cf. English Everyone came except for Peter) in Hill Mari and Moksha. Abstract, slides, and some photos are available at the website.
29.01.2020
A co-authored article by Polina Pleshak and Dmitry Petelin was published in №2/2019 of the journal "Typology of morphosyntactic parameters". The authors discuss some syntactic properties of temporal expressions ('in the morning', 'in winter' etc.). The full text is available here.
20.01.2020
An article by Irina Khomchenkova was published in the proceedings volume of the conference ConSOLE-2019. It focuses on the syntax of comitatives in several Finno-Ugric languages including Hill Mari. The full text is available here.
16.01.2020
An article by Irina Khomchenkova was published in the journal Acta Linguistica Petropolitana (№1/2019). It deals with the polyfunctionality of the affix -ge traditionally treated as comitative. The full text is available here (in Russian).
14.12.2019
A conference "Native languages of peoples of Russia: current state and perspectives of development" was held in the Civic Chamber of Russia on 12-13 December. Our team leader Egor Kashkin was one of the chairs of the round table which dealt with teaching native languages of Russia. Some pictures are available here.
28.11.2019
The XVI Conference on typology and grammar for young scholars was held in St. Petersburg from 21 till 23 November. Its schedule included many talks by our team members.
Daria Belova discussed some properties of the mediopassive suffix -alt and possible ways of their analysis within the event structure framework (see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
A co-authored talk by Anna Danilova and Egor Kashkin dealt with the use of zero-affixed converbs (see abstract and handout, both in Russian).
Yuliya Demina analyzed the syntax of relative clauses with inverse attraction (see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
The talk by Dmitry Petelin was focused on some morphosyntactic and semantic properties of temporal expressions (see abstract and handout, both in Russian).
Julia Sinitsyna discussed some properties of the comparative affix -rak (see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
A co-authored talk by Irina Khomchenkova and Maxim Fedotov provided the comparison of caritive constructions in Hill Mari and Chuvash (see abstract in Russian and slides in English).
Three more talks of our team members dealt with other projects. Vadim Dyachkov analyzed the syntax of comitatives in the Natioro language spoken in Africa. Nikita Muravyev discussed some properties of Western Khanty passives. The talk by Maria Sidorova was devoted to approximative quantified expressions in Tatyshly Udmurt.
Some pictures from the conference are available here.
Daria Belova discussed some properties of the mediopassive suffix -alt and possible ways of their analysis within the event structure framework (see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
A co-authored talk by Anna Danilova and Egor Kashkin dealt with the use of zero-affixed converbs (see abstract and handout, both in Russian).
Yuliya Demina analyzed the syntax of relative clauses with inverse attraction (see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
The talk by Dmitry Petelin was focused on some morphosyntactic and semantic properties of temporal expressions (see abstract and handout, both in Russian).
Julia Sinitsyna discussed some properties of the comparative affix -rak (see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
A co-authored talk by Irina Khomchenkova and Maxim Fedotov provided the comparison of caritive constructions in Hill Mari and Chuvash (see abstract in Russian and slides in English).
Three more talks of our team members dealt with other projects. Vadim Dyachkov analyzed the syntax of comitatives in the Natioro language spoken in Africa. Nikita Muravyev discussed some properties of Western Khanty passives. The talk by Maria Sidorova was devoted to approximative quantified expressions in Tatyshly Udmurt.
Some pictures from the conference are available here.
24.10.2019
A conference "Typology of morphosyntactic parameters" was held in Moscow from 16 till 18 October 2019. Dmitry Petelin presented there a co-authored talk with Polina Pleshak dealing with the syntax of Hill Mari temporal expressions ("in the morning", "in winter" etc.), see abstract (in English) and slides (in Russian). The schedule also included the talk by Vadim Dyachkov, who analyzed the causative-passive polysemy in Tomo Kan.
21.10.2019
A conference "Documenting endangered languages and dialects of Russia" was held in St. Petersburg from October 14 till October 16. Vadim Dyachkov presented there a co-authored talk with Irina Khomchenkova dealing with Russian — Hill Mari code-switching and possible approaches to its study. Abstract and slides are available at our website (in Russian).
15.10.2019
A symposium "Sentence as a unit of language and speech" commemorating the 95th anniversary of M. I. Cheremisina was held from 8 till 11 October in Novosibirsk. Some of our team members gave talks there. Tanya Davidyuk discussed nominal causal constructions in some Finno-Ugric languages paying much attention to Hill Mari (see slides and article in the proceedings volume, both in Russian). The talk by Vladimir Ivanov dealt with some problems involved in the distinction between "paired words" and reduplications in Finno-Ugric. Egor Kashkin analyzed some morphological peculiarities of a Khanty manuscript "Saint history". Some pictures are available here.
05.10.2019
A journalist from Mari El radio, Marina Pochteneva, visited us during the summer 2019 field trip and interviewed some of our team members and locals. The recording (in Russian and Hill Mari) is available here (see also the "Media" section).
17.09.2019
The conference on syntax, phonology and language analysis (SinFonIJA 12) was held in Brno from 12 till 14 September. One of its participants was Maria Sidorova, who discussed approximative quantified expressions with the marker närə̈ and the possible ways of their theoretical analysis. The poster and the supplementary handout are available here. Some pictures can be viewed here.
10.09.2019
The Fall school for formal syntax and formal semantics was held in Moscow from 1 till 7 September 2019. One of its participants was Irina Khomchenkova, who gave a poster presentation on the syntactic and semantic properties of the expressions with the comitative marker -ge. Some pictures are available as well.
27.08.2019
The annual conference of European Linguistic Society (SLE 2019) was held in Leipzig from 21 till 24 August. Our team members presented 9 talks dealing with Hill Mari, broader typological studies and some other projects.
The talk by Natalia Kalanova dealt with the morphological properties of indefinite pronouns with the markers šon и popaza (see abstract and slides). Julia Sinitsyna discussed the markers -la and gan' used in comparative constructions (see abstract and poster).
The talk by Egor Kashkin was focused on the grammaticalization undergone by the verbs šuaš и kə̈škäš (both refer to throwing events) in complex predicates (see abstract and slides). Vadim Dyachkov and Daria Belova analyzed the properties of verbs having the suffixes -alt and -g (see abstract and slides). Nikita Muravyev discussed some peculiarities of converbs on -mə̑kə̑ / -mə̈kə̈ (see abstract and slides).
The talk by Maria Sidorova dealt with the lexical typology of the qualities 'clean', 'dirty', 'transparent', 'turbid'. The presentation included much Hill Mari data (see abstract and slides).
The poster by Irina Khomchenkova was about comitative constructions in Kazym Khanty with some more Finno-Ugric parallels. Vadim Dyachkov presented his findings on the relativization in Tomo Kan. Aigul Zakirova focused on clausal agreement in Zilo Andi.
Some pictures from the conference are available here.
The talk by Natalia Kalanova dealt with the morphological properties of indefinite pronouns with the markers šon и popaza (see abstract and slides). Julia Sinitsyna discussed the markers -la and gan' used in comparative constructions (see abstract and poster).
The talk by Egor Kashkin was focused on the grammaticalization undergone by the verbs šuaš и kə̈škäš (both refer to throwing events) in complex predicates (see abstract and slides). Vadim Dyachkov and Daria Belova analyzed the properties of verbs having the suffixes -alt and -g (see abstract and slides). Nikita Muravyev discussed some peculiarities of converbs on -mə̑kə̑ / -mə̈kə̈ (see abstract and slides).
The talk by Maria Sidorova dealt with the lexical typology of the qualities 'clean', 'dirty', 'transparent', 'turbid'. The presentation included much Hill Mari data (see abstract and slides).
The poster by Irina Khomchenkova was about comitative constructions in Kazym Khanty with some more Finno-Ugric parallels. Vadim Dyachkov presented his findings on the relativization in Tomo Kan. Aigul Zakirova focused on clausal agreement in Zilo Andi.
Some pictures from the conference are available here.
14.08.2019
A new field trip to Kuznetsovo and its surroundings was carried out from 23 July till 9 August 2019. The main aim was to check and clarify the data on some previously studied issues in grammar and lexical semantics. Some new phenomena were studied as well, such as various types of relative clauses, the properties of some converbs, exceptives, some lexical domains etc. Some pictures from the field trip are available here. An interview with our team member, Julia Demina, is posted at the official social media pages of OTIPL (VKontakte, Facebook; both in Russian).
23.06.2019
The conference on the syntax of the Uralic languages (SOUL) was held in Tartu on 18-19 June 2019. Its schedult included some talks by our team members. Vadim Dyachkov proposed a possible analysis of complex predicates (see abstract and slides). Anita Soloveva discussed the properties of the lexeme xälä as a quantifier (see abstract and slides). The joint talk by Irina Khomchenkova and Polina Pleshak dealt with the use of numerals in Russian - Hill Mari and Russian-Moksha code-switching (see abstract and poster). Some pictures from the conference are available here.
12.06.2019
Aigul Zakirova successfully defended her MA thesis at HSE on June 10 2019. The research dealt with the properties of the particle =ok and of similar particles in the languages of the Volga-Kama area. The paper got the maximal grade. Some pictures are available here.
06.06.2019
On 3-4 June 2019 the defence of BA theses was held at the Department of theoretical and applied linguistics. It included the papers by Tanya Davidyuk and Natalia Abovyan. Tanya studied expressions of cause in NP and PP in several Uralic languages including Hill Mari. Natalia's research focused on secondary predication in Hill Mari. Both papers got excellent grades. Some pictures taken from the VK page of OTIPL are available here.
27.05.2019
On 24 May 2019 the defence of MA theses was held at the Department of theoretical and applied linguistics, including the theses by Polina Pleshak and Daria Mordashova. Polina's research was focused on NP morphosyntax in Mordvin and Mari. Daria studied some cases of grammaticalization in Scandinavian. Both papers got excellent grades. Some pictures kindly shared by Matvey Kurzukov are available here.
18.05.2019
Our team members published several articles in the proceedings volume of the conference "Minority languages in large linguistics" held at MSU in 2017 (all in Russian). The paper by Irina Burukina deals with the pronoun ške used as an intensifier. The co-authored article by Egor Kashkin, Maria Sidorova, Daria Mordashova, Anastasia Gareyshina and Ilya Uchitel discusses some properties of the enclitic =ok. The article by Polina Pleshak and Tanya Davidyuk compares the properties of NPs, PPs, and some intermediate constructions. Irina Khomchenkova focused on the semantic and syntactic features of the enclitic =at in her paper.
08.05.2019
The third student conference for philologists and linguists was held in HSE (St. Petersburg) on 26-27 April 2019. Our project was presented there by Daria Belova, who analyzed some properties of Hill Mari mediopassives with -alt / -ə̑lt within the framework proposed by A. Alexiadou. You can view the abstract (in Russian), the handout (in Russian) and some pictures shared by the organizers at our website.
02.05.2019
A conference for young Finno-Ugric researchers IFUSCO took place in Vienna from 24 till 26 April 2019. Its schedule included the talk by Natalia Kalanova on the semantics of Hill Mari indefinite pronouns. The abstract (in Russian) and slides (in German) are available at our website, together with some pictures, mainly shared by the organizers.
24.04.2019
An article by Irina Khomchenkova on NP conjunction in Hill Mari was published in the journal "Typology of morphosyntactic parameters" (vol. 1, issue 2, 2018). The author discusses the syntax of constructions with the markers dä, don(o) and saga. The full text is available here (in Russian).
24.04.2019
An article by Egor Kashkin dealing with the studies of lexicon in our project has been published in the proceedings volume of XVIII Conference commemorating N. Ignatiev. The author discusses, on the one hand, the advantages provided by the typological approach for studying Hill Mari lexicon, and, on the other hand, the contribution of Hill Mari data to lexical typology. The article is available here (in Russian).
23.04.2019
On 18 April 2019 Institute of Linguistics of RAS organized a meeting of the seminar "Indigenous languages and culture of song". The presenters were Polina Pleshak, Nikita Muraviev, and Lev Kozlov, who briefly described the sociolinguistic situation of Mordvin and Mari and sang some songs in these languages. The slideshow is available here (in Russian). The video recording can be accessed at the website of IL RAS. Some pictures kindly shared by Maria Amelina can be viewed in our photo gallery.
12.04.2019
On 11 April 2019 Vadim Dyachkov successfully defended his candidate thesis in the Institute of Linguistics of RAS. The thesis is devoted to the typology of deadjectival verbs. The text of the thesis, the extended abstract and other relevant materials are available here (all in Russian).
Some photos kindly shared with us by Ksenia Semenova can be viewed here.
Some photos kindly shared with us by Ksenia Semenova can be viewed here.
10.04.2019
An international conference "Linguistic Forum 2019: Indigenous languages of Russia and beyond" was held on April 4–6 2019, in Moscow. Its programme included some talks by our project members. The talk by Egor Kashkin dealt with our project — "Hill Mari field (team project of OTIPL MSU)" (see abstract and slides). The conference schedule also included the talk by Natalia Stoynova and Irina Khomchenkova "Field data in data recycling projects" (see abstract and slides) and the talk by Daria Mordashova, Maria Pupynina and Maria Sidorova "Tundra Yukaghir in the light of areal contact in the Nizhnekolymsky District". Some photos from the conference kindly shared by the organizers are available here.
07.04.2019
The annual conference commemorating N. Ignatiev was held in the village of Kulakovo (Hill Mari district) on April 2. The plenary session included the talk by Egor Kashkin on the text corpus created by our field team (see slides in Russian). Some pictures are available here.
25.03.2019
Two articles of our team members (both in Russian) have been published in the proceedings volume of VI school-conference "Problems of language: view of young scholars". Egor Kashkin (see full text) discusses the use of the light verbs šə̈ndäš и šuaš in complex predicates which denote telic events. The article by Irina Khomchenkova (see full text) deals with comitative expressions.
01.03.2019
Polina Pleshak and Irina Khomchenkova published an article on the use of the POSS.3SG marker in code-switching contexts in №1/2019 of Tomsk journal of linguistics and anthropology. The authors discuss how such uses are connected with contrastive semantics conveyed by this affix in some other cases. The article is available here (in Russian).
26.02.2019
The conference ConSOLE-2019 was held in Berlin from 21 till 23 February. Our team was represented there by Irina Khomchenkova. Her talk dealt with the syntax of comitative constructions in Hill Mari and Khanty (see abstract и poster). Some pictures are available here.
Our text corpus available on the website
22.01.2019
The pilot version of the text corpus prepared in our project is now available on the website (section Corpus). If you have any questions or suggestions related to the corpus, feel free to contact us.
20.01.2019
On 18 January 2019 Moscow State University organized the awarding ceremony for students who achieved significant results in academic, scholarly, social, and cultural activities. The list of winners includes one of our team members – Maria Sidorova, who became the only student from the Faculty of Philology awarded this prize in 2019. The talks and publications by Maria are available on the relevant pages of our website. Some pictures can be viewed here (most of them were made by the organizers of the event).
19.01.2019
Tanya Davidyuk and Ksenia Studenikina published an article about the polysemy of the elative postposition gə̈c in the proceedings volume of "Console 2018". The main focus is put on its uses in which it encodes contact point ('to beat in the back', 'to hold the hand' etc.). The full text is available here.
07.01.2019
Egor Kashkin published an article on the grammaticalization patterns followed by the verbs šuaš and kə̈škäš which refer to situations of throwing (№4/2018 of the journal "Ural-Altaic Studies"). The article focuses on collocational and semantic restrictions between these verbs in complex predicates. The full text is available here.
06.01.2019
Polina Pleshak published an article on adnominal possessives in several Finno-Ugric languages (Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Moksha, Erzya, Komi, Udmurt) in №1/2018 of the journal Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri (Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics). The author considers how a set of semantic and syntactic factors influences possessive marking. The full text is available here.
05.01.2019
Our team members published articles (all in Russian) in №2/2018 of the journal Rodnoy Yazyk ("Mother tongue"). The articles by Egor Kashkin (see full text) and Tanya Davidyuk (see full text) describe lexical domains of Hill Mari in comparison to the typological research. They deal with lexemes meaning 'straight' and with verbs of oscillation respectively. Vadim Dyachkov (see full text) analyzes the use of the aspectual suffix -ə̑l- compatible with both semelfactive and iterative contexts.
28.12.2018
Our team members published articles in №2/2018 of Acta Linguistica Petropolitana (all of them are in Russian). The articles by Anna Bochkova (see full text) and Maria Sidorova (see full text) deal with number marking of Hill Mari nouns: with its basic rules and with its peculiarities in quantified expressions respectively. Tanya Davidyuk discusses the use of the lative case (see full text). The article by Anastasia Gareyshina focuses on the syntactic properties of Hill Mari correlatives. The co-authored article by Egor Kashkin, Maria Sidorova and Daria Zhornik is devoted to the typology of verbs which describe closing and opening and includes Hill Mari data.
12.12.2018
The Conference on Uralic, Altaic and Paleo-Asiatic languages in the memory of Alexander P. Volodin was held at ILS RAS (St. Petersburg) from 6 till 8 December 2018. Its schedule included five talks of our team members (all of them were in Russian). Egor Kashkin discussed Hill Mari lexemes referring to high and low loudness levels (see abstract and slides). The talk by Maria Strygina dealt with the adverbs of high and low speed in Hill Mari (see abstract and slides). The presentation by Anastasia Sibireva considered Hill Mari causative verbs with the affix -tar- (see abstract and slides). Polina Pleshak and Tatiana Remizova in their joint talk analyzed some properties of possessive NPs with kinship terms in Hill Mari and Chuvash (see abstract and slides). Maria Sidorova talked about approximative numeral constructions in some Uralic and Altaic languages (see abstract and slides).
Some pictures from the conference are available here.
Some pictures from the conference are available here.
05.12.2018
A conference "Indigenous languages in contact with Russian: morphosyntactic and semantic interference" was held at Vinogradov Institute for Russian language (RAS) in Moscow from 30 November till 1 December. Its programme included some talks by our project members. The talks by Vadim Dyachkov (see abstract and slides, both in Russian) and Irina Khomchenkova (see abstract and slides, both in Russian) dealt with various constructions which involve code-switching between Hill Mari and Russian. Aigul Zakirova discussed some phenomena related to borrowing Russian verbs into Hill Mari (see abstract and slides, both in Russian). The conference schedule also included the talk by Egor Kashkin on the Russian speech of Moksha-Russian bilinguals and the joint talk by Irina Khomchenkova, Polina Pleshak and Natalya Stoynova on the non-standard gender agreement in the Russian speech of bilinguals.
Some photos from the conference are available here.
Some photos from the conference are available here.
27.11.2018
An annual Conference on typology and grammar for young scholars was held in St. Petersburg from 22 till 24 November. Its schedule included many talks of our team members. Most of them dealt with Hill Mari.
Maria Sidorova and Julia Sinitsyna analyzed the morphosyntactic properties of comparative constructions with the marker gan' and approximative constructions with the marker närə̈
(see abstract in Russian and handout in English).
Dmitry Petelin discussed the semantics and morphosyntax of some temporal expressions – 'in autumn', 'in the evening' etc. (see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
A joint talk by Tanya Davidyuk and Ksenia Studenikina was focused on the semantics and polysemy of causal postpositions, with some data on the causal use of the lative case
(see abstract and handout, both in Russian).
Irina Khomchenkova analyzed the properties of caritive markers (conveying the semantics of absence), see abstract and slides (both in Russian).
The talk by Natalia Kalanova dealt with free choice pronouns with the markers šon и popaza
(see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
Daria Belova discussed some properties of the mediopassive affix -alt- (see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
The joint talk by Daria Mordashova and Aigul Zakirova was devoted to the constructions with the verbal form lieš 'become.NPST.3SG' (see abstract in Russian and slides in English).
Some talks by our team members dealt with other areas of their research. Anita Soloveva discussed the quantifier isa in Khanty. Vadim Dyachkov considered the properties of adjectives in the Tomo-Kan language spoken in Africa. The talk by Nikita Muraviev was devoted to some multiclausal constructions in Khanty. Polina Pleshak analyzed the possessive constructions
in the Kaqchikel language spoken in Guatemala.
Some pictures from the conference are available here.
Maria Sidorova and Julia Sinitsyna analyzed the morphosyntactic properties of comparative constructions with the marker gan' and approximative constructions with the marker närə̈
(see abstract in Russian and handout in English).
Dmitry Petelin discussed the semantics and morphosyntax of some temporal expressions – 'in autumn', 'in the evening' etc. (see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
A joint talk by Tanya Davidyuk and Ksenia Studenikina was focused on the semantics and polysemy of causal postpositions, with some data on the causal use of the lative case
(see abstract and handout, both in Russian).
Irina Khomchenkova analyzed the properties of caritive markers (conveying the semantics of absence), see abstract and slides (both in Russian).
The talk by Natalia Kalanova dealt with free choice pronouns with the markers šon и popaza
(see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
Daria Belova discussed some properties of the mediopassive affix -alt- (see abstract and slides, both in Russian).
The joint talk by Daria Mordashova and Aigul Zakirova was devoted to the constructions with the verbal form lieš 'become.NPST.3SG' (see abstract in Russian and slides in English).
Some talks by our team members dealt with other areas of their research. Anita Soloveva discussed the quantifier isa in Khanty. Vadim Dyachkov considered the properties of adjectives in the Tomo-Kan language spoken in Africa. The talk by Nikita Muraviev was devoted to some multiclausal constructions in Khanty. Polina Pleshak analyzed the possessive constructions
in the Kaqchikel language spoken in Guatemala.
Some pictures from the conference are available here.
20.11.2018
A Workshop on Volga-Kama languages was held in Moscow (HSE, IL RAS) from 16 till 18 November. The programme included several talks by our team members. Polina Pleshak (together with Svetlana Toldova) discussed the distinction between grammatical and lexical cases in Hill Mari and Moksha (see slides). Aigul Zakirova analyzed the particle =ok and the corresponding particles in
Volga-Kama languages (see slides). The talk by Vladimir Ivanov dealt with ideophones in Volga-Kama languages. Some pictures are available here.
Volga-Kama languages (see slides). The talk by Vladimir Ivanov dealt with ideophones in Volga-Kama languages. Some pictures are available here.
29.10.2018
A conference "Typology of morphosyntactic parameters" (TMP 2018) was held in Moscow from 22 till 24 October. Our project was represented by Vadim Dyachkov who discussed pluractionality (see abstract and slides, both in Russian) and by Irina Khomchenkova who focused on NP conjunction (see abstract and slides, both in Russian). The conference schedule also included the talks by Polina Pleshak on nominal plurality in Kaqchikel and Aigul Zakirova om Moksha modal constructions. Some photos kindly shared by the organizers are available here.
01.10.2018
A conference LingColl53 took place in Odense (Denmark) from 24 till 27 September 2018. Daria Mordashova presented there a talk on Hill Mari imperative particles from the typological point of view (see abstract и slides). Some photos from the conference can be viewed here.
23.09.2018
An International conference on evidentiality and modality was held from 19 till 22 September in Madrid. Daria Mordashova presented there a talk on Hill Mari constructions with a modal marker ə̈lnežə̈. Abstract and slides are available on our website, as well as some pictures from the conference.
08.09.2018
The conference Syntax of the World's languages VIII was held in Paris from 3 till 5 September 2018. Ksenia Studenikina presented there a poster (prepared together with Tanya Davidyuk) dealing with the use of causal postpositions in Hill Mari (see also abstract). Nikita Muraviev and Polina Pleshak discussed other areas of their research: the talk by Nikita (co-authored with Ekaterina Georgieva) focused on some properties of converbs in Komi and Udmurt, and Polina proposed an analysis of genitive NPs in Moksha. Some pictures from the conference are available here.
05.09.2018
An annual conference of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2018) was held in Tallinn from 29 August till 1 September 2018. 11 members of our team took part in this conference. A joint talk by Egor Kashkin and Vadim Dyachkov (see abstract and slides) was devoted to complex predicates and their possible semantic analysis (Vadim presented one more paper at a poster session, which dealt with the Tomo Kan language spoken in Africa). Daria Mordashova (see abstract and slides) discussed the semantic of several imperative particles. The research by Aigul Zakirova (see abstract and poster) focused on the properties of the modal marker -šaš. Anastasia Sibireva (see poster) presented her findings on double causatives. The poster by Natalia Abovyan (see also abstract) was devoted to the syntax of depictive constructions. The joint presentation by Polina Pleshak and Tanya Davidyuk (the abstract is available here) dealt with the syntax of PP in comparison with the syntax of NP. Maria Sidorova discussed the properties of collective numerals (see abstract and handout). Another talk by Maria prepared together with Anastasia Gareyshina, Egor Kashkin and Daria Mordashova focused on the semantics and syntax of the particle =ok (see abstract and slides). Last but not least, Irina Khomchenkova presented a poster on the marker -ge, traditionally treated as comitative (see also abstract). This paper received the second prize in the nomitation "The best poster". Some pictures from the conference are available here.
16.08.2018
A new field trip to Kuznetsovo and its surroundings took place from 23 July till 12 August 2018. We investigated some new topics on grammar and lexicon and gathered additional data on some previously studied issues. Some pictures from this field trip are available here. The interviews of some students can be read at the official Vkontakte and Facebook pages of OTIPL (both in Russian).
17.07.2018
Maria Sidorova published an article on the morphosyntax of approximative numeral constructions (e.g. about three days, approximately 10 km) in №2 of Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. The text is available here (in Russian).
09.07.2018
A School-conference on Uralic studies was organized by IL RAS from 2 till 6 July in the health resort "Soyuz-Gazprom" (Moscow region). Two talks were given by Vadim Dyachkov: one of them (slides in Russian) dealt with the aspectual suffix -ə̑l-, and the other one, co-authored with Irina Khomchenkova, was devoted to the syntax of Hill Mari ideophones (slides in Russian). Two more talks addressed the issues of Hill Mari lexicon studied from the typological perspective: Egor Kashkin discussed the lexemes meaning 'straight' (slides in Russian), and Tanya Davidyuk analyzed verbs of oscillation (slides in Russian). The programme of the School-conference also included the talk by Nikita Muraviev on some features of Komi converbs. Some pictures kindly shared with us by Maria Amelina are available here.
09.06.2018
The 3rd year students of the Department of theoretical and applied linguistics defended their course papers on June 7. The work by Tanya Davidyuk dealt with the morphosyntacic properties of postpositional phrases in Hill Mari. Natalia Abovyan analyzed secondary predication with short forms of adjectives in Russian. Both course papers have received excellent grades.
30.05.2018
The bachelors of the Department of theoretical and applied linguistics defended their theses on May 28-29. Our project was represented by Irina Khomchenkova, Maria Sidorova and Julia Sinitsyna. Irina studied the markers of comitative and coordination and elaborated on some challenging semantic and syntactic properties of these markers. Maria's research deals with approximative quantified expressions (about two hours, etc.) remaining underdescribed in typology and relies on the data from several Finno-Ugric languages including Hill Mari. Julia's paper is devoted to the affix -la traditionaly treated as the "comparative case" and having some non-trivial morphological and semantic properties left beyond the previous research. All the three papers got excellent grades, and their authors were recommended to prepare publications based on their results (which are already work in progress). Some pictures kindly shared with us by Matvey Kurzukov are available here.
26.05.2018
An International symposium on the language contact in the Volga and Ural regions was held in Cheboksary from 21 till 24 May. The representatives of our project were Egor Kashkin and Vladmir Ivanov. Egor's talk (see the handout and the article in the proceedings volume both in Russian) dealt with the use of posture verbs šə̈nzäš 'to sit down', šə̈ndäš 'to seat', šalgaš 'to stand' and šagalaš 'to stand up' as light verbs. The talk by Vladimir was devoted to some peculiarities of onomatopoetic words in the languages of the Volga region. Some pictures from the event are available here.
16.05.2018
An International Morphology Meeting was held from 10 till 13 May in Budapest. The workshop on morphology of Uralic and Turkic languages included the talk by Polina Pleshak, who discussed the variation in affix order in Hill Mari nouns and its possible theoretical account.
The abstract, slides and some pictures are available at our website.
The abstract, slides and some pictures are available at our website.
13.05.2018
Our team members published articles (in Russian) in the proceedings volume of the conference "Typology of morphosyntactic parameters 2017". The paper by Irina Khomchenkova and Maria Sidorova deals with the quantificational functions of the Hill Mari affix -ge traditionally analyzed as comitative, and of markers with similar semantics. Polina Pleshak and Maria Sidorova (see the article) discuss the syntactic structure of approximative quantified expressions in Hill Mari and Moksha. The same volume includes papers by Irine Burukina and Daria Mordashova on some research within other projects.
11.05.2018
Our team members published articles (in Russian) in the proceedings volume of the conference "Issues in computational linguistics and typology" held in 2017 in Voronezh. The article by Egor Kashkin deals with constructions with the light verb keäš 'to go, to leave': the author considers its collocational restrictions and some non-trivial semantic effects. The paper by Daria Mordashova is focused on Hill Mari rotation verbs in comparison with the typological research on this domain. Anastasia Sibireva (see the article) discusses colour terms relying on both experimental and frame-based approaches, and also touches upon some areal phenomena. Ksenia Studenikina (the article can be viewed here) analyzes verbs of hitting and knocking underdescribed in typology so far: the main focus is put on the central lexemes.
Articles in press
02.05.2018
References to articles in press are now available at the "Publications" section of our website (19 articles at the moment). Full texts and special announcements will be provided for published articles. If you have any questions concerning unpublished papers, please contact their authors directly or via our team leader.
20.04.2018
On 19 April 2018 a round table "Linguistic fieldwork as a training within a speciality 'Fundamental and computational linguistics'" was organized within the conference "Education in fundamental and computational linguistics: problems and solutions" held in MSU. The Uralic branch of OTIPL field project was presented by Egor Kashkin. The participants discussed various issues of organizing linguistic fieldwork, as well as it educational and research aspects. Some pictures kindly shared with us
by Matvey Kurzukov can be viewed here.
by Matvey Kurzukov can be viewed here.
16.04.2018
The proceedings volume of the Conference commemorating N. Ignatyev (2017) has been published. It includes the article by Egor Kashkin on the tasks and the methodological foundations of our field project, as well as on its first results achieved in 2016 – first half of 2017. The text is available here (in Russian).
15.04.2018
Three talks by our team members were presented on 11 April 2018 at the "Lomonosov" conference at MSU (section "Philology", subsection "Theoretical and applied linguistics"). Natalia Abovyan discussed Hill Mari depictives (see absrtact and handout). Maria Strygina analyzed the aspectual suffix -alt-/-ə̑lt- (see absrtact and slides). The work by Ksenia Studenikina dealt with another research area, namely with the syntax of coordination in Russian NPs. The papers by Natalia and Maria received letters of commendation from the Faculty of Philology. And Ksenia's paper was, in addition, approved for publication in the selected proceedings volume.
12.04.2018
XVIII Conference commemorating N. Ignatyev was held in Kozmodemyansk on April 10. The plenary session included the talk by Egor Kashkin who discussed the research on Hill Mari lexicon within our project. The slideshow is available here (in Russian). Some pictures can be viewed in our gallery.
05.04.2018
A group of our team members organized a field trip to Kuznetsovo and its surroundings from 22 till 31 March 2018. We checked and enlarged the data on some topics, as well as recorded some new texts. The results will be used in further talks and publications. Some pictures are available here.
16.03.2018
Irina Khomchenkova and Daria Zhornik published an article on pain verbs in the proceedings volume of V conference-school "Problems of language: view of young scholars" held in 2017. The authors analyze semantic shifts to this domain from various semantic classes. A special focus is put on the constructional changes. The article is available here (in Russian).
15.03.2018
Our team members presented their talks at a conference "Problems of language: view of young scholars" held at IL RAS in Moscow from 12 till 14 March 2018. Egor Kashkin discussed serial verb constructions expressing telicity, namely the constructions with light verbs šə̈ndäš 'to seat, to put' and šuaš 'to throw' (see abstract and handout in Russian). The talk by Irina Khomchenkova (see abstract and slides in Russian) was devoted to comitatives, in particular to the postpositions and saga, as well as to the affix -ge. A joint talk on Khanty preverbs was presented by Aigul Zakirova and Nikita Muraviev. Some pictures from the conference kindly shared with us by Maria Amelina can be viewed here.
09.03.2018
Polina Pleshak took part in a workshop "Possessive relations: interpretation, syntax and argument structure" organized within an Annual conference of the German Linguistic Society in Stuttgart (7-9 March 2018). She analyzed the position of a possessor in a NP in Hill Mari and Moksha. More information can be found in the abstract and in the slides. Our gallery includes some pictures from the conference.
18.02.2018
The annual conference ConSOLE was held from 14 till 17 February in London. Ksenia Studenikina presented there a poster (co-authored with Tanya Davidyuk) dealing with those cases in which the postposition gə̈c expressing Initial Point refers to the actually opposite concept of Contact Point. More details can be found in the abstract and in the poster. Some pictures are available in our gallery.
08.02.2018
Nikita Muraviev successfully defended his candidate thesis "Taxis and taxis forms in the world's languages: taxonomy and typology" in IL RAS. The full text of the thesis, the extended abstract and some more related materials can be viewed here (in Russian). Some pictures (many of them are kindly shared by Maria Muravieva) are available in our gallery.
15.01.2018
Daria Mordashova published an article on discontinuous past marking ("frozen" forms ə̑lə̑n / ə̑l'ə̑) in the proceedings volume of the conference ConSOLE-2017, coordinated by Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe. The author discusses the polysemy network of these markers, focusing on the conrtibution of Hill Mari to the relevant area of linguistic theory and typology. The article is available here.
12.01.2018
Vadim Dyachkov and Daria Mordashova published articles on verbal morphosyntax in the journal "Ural-Altaic Studies". The article by Vadim deals with deadjectival verbs: the author discusses their main morphological patterns and analyzes some morphosyntactic properties within the theories relying on the notion of scales in the semantics of adjectives. The text is available here (in Russian). Daria's article is devoted to analytical verbal constructions with frozen forms of the verb 'to be' (ə̑lə̑n / ə̑l'ə̑). They are analyzed as discontinous past marking, the details on their semantics are provided in the article.
Hill Mari data are compared with the material of some other Finno-Ugric languages.
This article is available here (in Russian).
Hill Mari data are compared with the material of some other Finno-Ugric languages.
This article is available here (in Russian).
05.01.2018
On 29 December 2017 Polina Pleshak gave a talk within a New Year lecture series "I WE WORLD". She elaborated on who linguists are, what they do in general, and shed light on some secrets of fieldwork. Some pictures from the event can be viewed here.
21.12.2017
On December 16 Egor Kashkin gave a popular lecture on linguistic fieldwork at the "Yilyirh" nomad camp of Northern peoples in Moscow. He discussed history, goals and some results of linguistic field projects. The handout is available here (in Russian).
10.12.2017
A meeting of the seminar "Some applications of mathematical methods in linguistics" was held on December 9 at MSU. The speakers were Polina Pleshak and Svetlana Toldova. They presented a talk "On the formal analysis of NP structure in Moksha and Hill Mari". The slides are available here (in Russian). Some pictures from the talk can be viewed in our gallery.
01.12.2017
A typological workshop on verbs of falling and some adjacent domains was held in the Institute of Linguistics in Saint-Petersburg on November 26. Its schedule included several talks of our team members. Egor Kashkin presented his findings on the verbs meaning 'to flow', 'to pour' in Hill Mari, Komi and Khanty (see poster in Russian). Egor's co-authored talk with Daria Mordashova dealt with Hill Mari verbs of throwing, with a special emphasis laid on the grammaticalization of šuaš 'to throw' in compound verbal constructions (see handout in Russian). The list of participants also included Polina Pleshak, who discussed Hungarian verbs of falling, and Vladimir Ivanov, who studied ideophones for falling in Beserman Udmurt in comparison with Russian. Some pictures from the workshop are available here.
29.11.2017
The XIV Conference on typology and grammar for young scholars was held in the Institute for linguistic studies, St-Petersburg, from 23 till 25 November. Its programme included 12 talks by our team members, and 9 of them relied on Hill Mari data.
Issues of nominal morpho-syntax were discussed in a co-authored talk by Tanya Davidyuk and Ksenia Studenikina dealing with some non-trivial polysemy of the elative postposition gə̈c (abstract and handout in Russian), as well as in the talk by Irina Khomchenkova devoted to the properties of the affix -ge traditionally labelled as comitative (abstract and slides in Russian).
A series of talks focused on various verbal forms. Vadim Dyachkov gave a talk on deadjectival verbs, comparing Hill Mari data with those of Komi and Khanty (abstract and slides in Russian). His joint talk with Maria Strygina dealt with Hill Mari affixes of verbal plurality (abstract and slides in Russian). Aigul Zakirova discussed non-finite forms with the affix -šaš (absrtact in Russian, slides in English). Daria Mordashova analyzed the semantics of imperative particles (abstract and handout in Russian). Anastasia Sibireva described causative constructions with a special emphasis put on non-trivial uses of double causatives (abstract and slides in Russian).
Two more talks were devoted to other issues of syntax. Natalia Abovyan analyzed the properties of depictives (abstract and handout in Russian). The talk by Anastasia Kirillova dealt with the syntax of the negative particle agə̑l (abstract in Russian, slides in English).
All the other talks on Hill Mari presented at the conference are not related to our field project.
Three more members of our team focused on other research they are involved into.
Polina Pleshak discussed some properties of Moksha NP. Maria Sidorova analyzed approximate numeral phrases in Khanty. Ilia Uchitel focused on some particles in Yiddish.
Some pictures from the conference are available here.
Issues of nominal morpho-syntax were discussed in a co-authored talk by Tanya Davidyuk and Ksenia Studenikina dealing with some non-trivial polysemy of the elative postposition gə̈c (abstract and handout in Russian), as well as in the talk by Irina Khomchenkova devoted to the properties of the affix -ge traditionally labelled as comitative (abstract and slides in Russian).
A series of talks focused on various verbal forms. Vadim Dyachkov gave a talk on deadjectival verbs, comparing Hill Mari data with those of Komi and Khanty (abstract and slides in Russian). His joint talk with Maria Strygina dealt with Hill Mari affixes of verbal plurality (abstract and slides in Russian). Aigul Zakirova discussed non-finite forms with the affix -šaš (absrtact in Russian, slides in English). Daria Mordashova analyzed the semantics of imperative particles (abstract and handout in Russian). Anastasia Sibireva described causative constructions with a special emphasis put on non-trivial uses of double causatives (abstract and slides in Russian).
Two more talks were devoted to other issues of syntax. Natalia Abovyan analyzed the properties of depictives (abstract and handout in Russian). The talk by Anastasia Kirillova dealt with the syntax of the negative particle agə̑l (abstract in Russian, slides in English).
All the other talks on Hill Mari presented at the conference are not related to our field project.
Three more members of our team focused on other research they are involved into.
Polina Pleshak discussed some properties of Moksha NP. Maria Sidorova analyzed approximate numeral phrases in Khanty. Ilia Uchitel focused on some particles in Yiddish.
Some pictures from the conference are available here.
18.11.2017
A group of our team members organized a field trip to Kuznetsovo and its surroundings from 4 till 13 November. We collected new data on some previously studied topics, as well as checked some data for the talks and publications which are in preparation now. Some more texts were recorded and transcribed. Some pictures are available here.
17.11.2017
Hill Mari language has become familiar to scholars from South Korea, Japan, and China. The programme of Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences (University of Seoul, 10–11 November 2017) included the poster by Polina Pleshak. It was devoted to the interrogative intonation in Hill Mari. Some pictures from the event can be viewed here.
05.11.2017
The department of theoretical and applied linguistics organized a conference "Minority languages in large linguistics" at November 2–3 2017. It was devoted to the 50th anniversary of OTIPL field project. The programme included talks by many of our team members. Egor Kashkin, Maria Sidorova, Anastasia Gareyshina, Daria Mordashova and Ilia Uchitel presented a joint talk about the particle =ok (see abstract and handout, both in Russian). Polina Pleshak and Tanya Davidyuk discussed the structure of NP and PP (see abstract and handout, both in Russian). Irine Burukina spoke about the properties of the pronoun ške (see abstract and slides, both in Russian). At another section she presented one more talk dealing with her studies of the Kaqchikel language. Finally, the poster session included the presentation by Irina Khomchekova, who studied the syntax and the semantics of the particle =at (see abstract and poster). Some pictures from the conference are available here.
05.11.2017
A popular conference "Research in field" was held in Moscow at October 28. It was devoted to the results of field trips organized within various research spheres in 2017. The talk on our field project was presented by Ksenia Studenikina. Her slides are available here (in Russian). The video recording of the whole conference (in Russian) is available in the offical group of the "Arhe" centre in the social network Vkontakte (Ksenia's talk starts at about 3 h 38 min).
31.10.2017
A conference "Typology of morpho-syntactic parameters" with a joint conference "Gensling" was held in Moscow at October 25–27 (see more info). The programme included several talks by our team members.
Maria Sidorova and Irina Khomchenkova discussed the non-canonical functions of Hill Mari comitative (see abstract and slides, both in Russian). A co-authored talk by Polina Pleshak and Maria Sidorova was devoted to the syntax of numeral constructions with approximative meaning (see abstract and handout, both in Russian).
Some talks dealt with other research projects. Their authors are Daria Mordashova,
Polina Pleshak (together with Alexey Kozlov and Maria Privizentseva), and
Irine Burukina. Some pictures from the conference can be viewed here.
Maria Sidorova and Irina Khomchenkova discussed the non-canonical functions of Hill Mari comitative (see abstract and slides, both in Russian). A co-authored talk by Polina Pleshak and Maria Sidorova was devoted to the syntax of numeral constructions with approximative meaning (see abstract and handout, both in Russian).
Some talks dealt with other research projects. Their authors are Daria Mordashova,
Polina Pleshak (together with Alexey Kozlov and Maria Privizentseva), and
Irine Burukina. Some pictures from the conference can be viewed here.
02.10.2017
A conference "Issues in computational linguistics and typology" was held in Voronezh State University on 29–30 September 2017. Its programme included several talks by our team members.
Egor Kashkin discussed the polysemy of the verb keäš 'go, leave', focusing on its grammaticalization within complex verbal constructions. The handout is available here (in Russian).
Daria Mordashova (see handout in Russian) gave a talk on rotation verbs, comparing Hill Mari data with the existing typological background.
The talk by Anastasia Sibireva (see slides in Russian) was devoted to colour terms. Their investigation included both an experiment with colour chips and collocational analysis. A special focus was laid on colour terms for 'blue' – adjectives klovoj and simsə̈.
Ksenia Studenikina (see handout in Russian) discussed Hill Mari verbs referring to knocks and strokes within a broader research project on sound verbs. The observations made in the talk will be valuable for the study of how knocks and strokes can be categorized cross-linguistically, since their typology has not been investigated in much detail yet.
The talk by Vladimir Ivanov summarizes the author's cross-linguistic study of child words, i. e. words used only in the communication between adults and small children. They have some specific features as compared with the majority of the lexicon. Besides, such words show a considerable cross-linguistic consistency, therefore Hill Mari data were compared with the material from some other Finno-Ugric languages.
Finally, Maria Sidorova and Aigul Zakirova presented a talk on Moksha temperature adjectives. They analyzed this lexical group from a typological perspective with a special focus on their marking with the main Moksha diminutive suffix.
Some pictures from the conference can be viewed here.
Egor Kashkin discussed the polysemy of the verb keäš 'go, leave', focusing on its grammaticalization within complex verbal constructions. The handout is available here (in Russian).
Daria Mordashova (see handout in Russian) gave a talk on rotation verbs, comparing Hill Mari data with the existing typological background.
The talk by Anastasia Sibireva (see slides in Russian) was devoted to colour terms. Their investigation included both an experiment with colour chips and collocational analysis. A special focus was laid on colour terms for 'blue' – adjectives klovoj and simsə̈.
Ksenia Studenikina (see handout in Russian) discussed Hill Mari verbs referring to knocks and strokes within a broader research project on sound verbs. The observations made in the talk will be valuable for the study of how knocks and strokes can be categorized cross-linguistically, since their typology has not been investigated in much detail yet.
The talk by Vladimir Ivanov summarizes the author's cross-linguistic study of child words, i. e. words used only in the communication between adults and small children. They have some specific features as compared with the majority of the lexicon. Besides, such words show a considerable cross-linguistic consistency, therefore Hill Mari data were compared with the material from some other Finno-Ugric languages.
Finally, Maria Sidorova and Aigul Zakirova presented a talk on Moksha temperature adjectives. They analyzed this lexical group from a typological perspective with a special focus on their marking with the main Moksha diminutive suffix.
Some pictures from the conference can be viewed here.
02.10.2017
A workshop on Uralic prosody was held in Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest on 28–29 September 2017. It brought together many researchers dealing with empirical, theoretical, and typological issues in this field. One of its participants was our team member – Polina Pleshak. She discussed intonational patterns in Hill Mari affirmative sentences with SOV word order. Polina's slideshow is available here. Some photos can be viewed in our gallery.
16.09.2017
The 50th annual meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2017) took place in Zurich (Switzerland) from 10 till 13 September 2017. It brought together more than 600 participants, including our team members who gave 10 presentations.
Tanya Davidyuk (see abstract and poster) discussed the polysemy of the lative case and its contribution to the typology of case systems.
The talk by Irina Khomchenkova (see abstract and slides) dealt with discourse functions of the 3SG possessive markers. This phenomenon is well-known in Uralic studies, however Hill Mari data have some peculiarities which need to be accounted for.
Maria Sidorova (see abstract and handout) presented new data on number marking in quantified expressions and discussed possible ways of their syntactic analysis.
The presentation by Anastasia Gareyshina (see abstract) was devoted to the use of analytical verbal forms within conditional constructions.
Nikita Muravyev (see abstract and slides) analyzed one class of converbal constructions in Hill Mari and some other Finno-Ugric languages.
Irina Khomchenkova and Daria Zhornik (see abstract and poster) delivered a talk on pain predicates, focusing on non-standard causative marking of such verbs.
A co-authored talk by Egor Kashkin, Maria Sidorova, Daria Zhornik and Olga Vinogradova (see abstract and slides) was devoted to verbs of closure and opening in several Indo-European and Finno-Ugric languages, including Hill Mari.
Three more talks by our team members touched upon other research they are involved into. Egor Kashkin discussed the use of the definite declension in Moksha. Polina Pleshak (together with Svetlana Toldova) analyzed some properties of the Moksha NP. Irina Burukina focused on some dative constructions in Russian.
Some comments of our speakers are available at the website of the department (in Russian). Some pictures from the conference can be viewed here.
Tanya Davidyuk (see abstract and poster) discussed the polysemy of the lative case and its contribution to the typology of case systems.
The talk by Irina Khomchenkova (see abstract and slides) dealt with discourse functions of the 3SG possessive markers. This phenomenon is well-known in Uralic studies, however Hill Mari data have some peculiarities which need to be accounted for.
Maria Sidorova (see abstract and handout) presented new data on number marking in quantified expressions and discussed possible ways of their syntactic analysis.
The presentation by Anastasia Gareyshina (see abstract) was devoted to the use of analytical verbal forms within conditional constructions.
Nikita Muravyev (see abstract and slides) analyzed one class of converbal constructions in Hill Mari and some other Finno-Ugric languages.
Irina Khomchenkova and Daria Zhornik (see abstract and poster) delivered a talk on pain predicates, focusing on non-standard causative marking of such verbs.
A co-authored talk by Egor Kashkin, Maria Sidorova, Daria Zhornik and Olga Vinogradova (see abstract and slides) was devoted to verbs of closure and opening in several Indo-European and Finno-Ugric languages, including Hill Mari.
Three more talks by our team members touched upon other research they are involved into. Egor Kashkin discussed the use of the definite declension in Moksha. Polina Pleshak (together with Svetlana Toldova) analyzed some properties of the Moksha NP. Irina Burukina focused on some dative constructions in Russian.
Some comments of our speakers are available at the website of the department (in Russian). Some pictures from the conference can be viewed here.
10.09.2017
Three members of our team gave poster presentations at the International School TyLex held in HSE Voronovo campus from 2 till 8 September 2017.
Tanya Davidyuk (see poster) investigated semantic restrictions on the verbs allowing the lative case, which is the most peculiar among Hill Mari locative cases due to its polysemy and constructional properties.
The presentation by Polina Pleshak dealt with some morphosyntactic properties of Hill Mari kinship terms. She has shown that some features of possessive constructions and the use of the vocative affix -i depend in particular on whether a kinship term refers to the younger vs. to the older generation. Polina's poster is available here.
Maria Sidorova discussed her findings on the lexical domains 'clean', 'dirty', 'transparent', 'turbid' in the Uralic and Altaic languages (the poster can be accessed here). The data from these languages (including Hill Mari) revealed several semantic oppositions not mentioned in the previous typological studies. Besides, it turns out that the lexemes in question are often "secondary" – in the sense that they are borrowed from other languages, or are morphologically derived, or developed these meanings as a result of semantic shifts.
The programme of TyLex included one more talk from our team: Aigul Zakirova presented a poster about mirative particles in the Turkic languages.
Some pictures (kindly shared with us by Matvey Kurzukov and Ekaterina Gerasimenko) can be viewed here.
Tanya Davidyuk (see poster) investigated semantic restrictions on the verbs allowing the lative case, which is the most peculiar among Hill Mari locative cases due to its polysemy and constructional properties.
The presentation by Polina Pleshak dealt with some morphosyntactic properties of Hill Mari kinship terms. She has shown that some features of possessive constructions and the use of the vocative affix -i depend in particular on whether a kinship term refers to the younger vs. to the older generation. Polina's poster is available here.
Maria Sidorova discussed her findings on the lexical domains 'clean', 'dirty', 'transparent', 'turbid' in the Uralic and Altaic languages (the poster can be accessed here). The data from these languages (including Hill Mari) revealed several semantic oppositions not mentioned in the previous typological studies. Besides, it turns out that the lexemes in question are often "secondary" – in the sense that they are borrowed from other languages, or are morphologically derived, or developed these meanings as a result of semantic shifts.
The programme of TyLex included one more talk from our team: Aigul Zakirova presented a poster about mirative particles in the Turkic languages.
Some pictures (kindly shared with us by Matvey Kurzukov and Ekaterina Gerasimenko) can be viewed here.
English version
28.08.2017
We have launched a parallel English version of our website. All the previous content has also been translated into English. We will be grateful for sharing this information!
13.08.2017
New pictures from the summer field trip – 2017 have been uploaded to our website. They can be found in the Photo Gallery.
17.07.2017
During the summer field trip – 2017 we were interviewed by journalists from the Youtube channel "Yolna TV". They asked our team leader and participants about our goals, work process and some current issues in the studies of Hill Mari. In addition, Polina Pleshak and Asya Gareyshina showed their artistic talent to the audience of "Yolna TV", having performed two Hill Mari songs. The reportage (dated 12 July 2017) can be watched here (in Russian and Hill Mari).
17.07.2017
From 2 July till 16 July 2017 we worked once again in Kuznetsovo and its surroundings. Our team included both those people who had previously done fieldwork on Hill Mari and some new members. We clarified some points on the topics we had studied before and started working on some new issues of Hill Mari phonetics, grammar, and lexicon. Our Hill Mari text corpus was also enlarged. The results will be discussed at various conferences and published after the new data is processed. In the middle of our trip we spent a day off in Yoshkar-Ola, the capital of Mari El. Some pictures from the summer field trip are available here. At the website of our department one can read some impressions of our beginners (in Russian).
28.06.2017
The SOUL conference dealing with the syntax of the Uralic languages took place in Budapest on 27-28 June 2017. Three members of our team delivered their talks at this conference.
Anastasia Gareyshina discussed some properties of Hill Mari conditional clauses and accounted for her data within the framework of some modern theoretical approaches. The abstract is available here.
The talks by Aigul Zakirova and Polina Pleshak (together with S. Toldova and A. Volkova) dealt with their research on Moksha in the previous field project of our Department. Aigul presented her findings on Moksha nominalizations, while Polina and her co-authors focused on Moksha NP. Some pictures from the conference can be found in our Gallery.
Anastasia Gareyshina discussed some properties of Hill Mari conditional clauses and accounted for her data within the framework of some modern theoretical approaches. The abstract is available here.
The talks by Aigul Zakirova and Polina Pleshak (together with S. Toldova and A. Volkova) dealt with their research on Moksha in the previous field project of our Department. Aigul presented her findings on Moksha nominalizations, while Polina and her co-authors focused on Moksha NP. Some pictures from the conference can be found in our Gallery.
06.06.2017
The 3rd year students of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics defended their course papers on 6 June 2017. Among them were Maria Sidorova and Irina Khomchenkova, whose papers relied on Hill Mari field data.
Maria's research dealt with appoximate numeral phrases (cf. English about two hours, roughly 13 miles). Modern typology lacks their detailed description, therefore Hill Mari data (also compared to the material of some other Finno-Ugric languages) are highly valuable for typological studies. Besides, these data encourage the development of the syntactic theory, because the existing formal approaches encounter some challenges here and need some revision, which is discussed in this course paper.
Irina studied discourse functions of the 3SG possessive marker. This phenomenon had been widely discussed in Uralic linguistics, but the previous descriptions tend to be too vague and separated from the modern theory. Irina managed to clearly analyze her field data and to propose a semantic invariant for different uses of the 3SG possessive marker.
Both course papers got excellent grades. Some pictures from the defence can be viewed here.
Maria's research dealt with appoximate numeral phrases (cf. English about two hours, roughly 13 miles). Modern typology lacks their detailed description, therefore Hill Mari data (also compared to the material of some other Finno-Ugric languages) are highly valuable for typological studies. Besides, these data encourage the development of the syntactic theory, because the existing formal approaches encounter some challenges here and need some revision, which is discussed in this course paper.
Irina studied discourse functions of the 3SG possessive marker. This phenomenon had been widely discussed in Uralic linguistics, but the previous descriptions tend to be too vague and separated from the modern theory. Irina managed to clearly analyze her field data and to propose a semantic invariant for different uses of the 3SG possessive marker.
Both course papers got excellent grades. Some pictures from the defence can be viewed here.
02.06.2017
On 1-2 June 2017 the University of Helsinki organized a conference on contact-driven multilingual practices. Our project was represented there by Irina Khomchenkova and Polina Pleshak, who prepared a co-authored talk.
Irina and Polina investigated those cases in which code-switching is marked by a contrastive affix. This fact suggests that a bilingual speaker has two parallel lexicons in their mind and chooses between them when selecting a word. The abstract and the slideshow are available at our website, together with some pictures from the conference.
Irina and Polina investigated those cases in which code-switching is marked by a contrastive affix. This fact suggests that a bilingual speaker has two parallel lexicons in their mind and chooses between them when selecting a word. The abstract and the slideshow are available at our website, together with some pictures from the conference.
02.06.2017
A conference "Current issues in the dialectology of languages spoken in Russia" took place in Ufa (Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia) on 1-2 June 2017. Our representatives at this conference were Egor Kashkin and Vladimir Ivanov.
Egor discussed Hill Mari verbs of closing and their contribution to a typological project on this semantic domain. His handout and his article in the proceedings volume (both in Russian) can be found at our website.
Vladimir presented his study of ideophones in the Finno-Ugric languages of the Volga region (primarily Erzya, Moksha, Udmurt, and Meadow Mari). These lexemes were compared to their counterparts from the Turkic languages. The text of this paper can be accessed here (in Russian).
Our Gallery includes some pictures from this conference.
Egor discussed Hill Mari verbs of closing and their contribution to a typological project on this semantic domain. His handout and his article in the proceedings volume (both in Russian) can be found at our website.
Vladimir presented his study of ideophones in the Finno-Ugric languages of the Volga region (primarily Erzya, Moksha, Udmurt, and Meadow Mari). These lexemes were compared to their counterparts from the Turkic languages. The text of this paper can be accessed here (in Russian).
Our Gallery includes some pictures from this conference.
29.05.2017
The bachelors of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics defended their theses on 29 May 2017. Three of them are our team members – Polina Pleshak, Daria Mordashova and Anastasia Sirotina.
Polina Pleshak's paper deals with the morpho-syntax of a NP in Moksha and Hill Mari and to a great extent relies on the data collected within our field project. The author thoroughly analyzed the properties of dependents in a NP in Hill Mari and proposed a theoretical account of her data. Besides, Polina managed to convincingly explain the variation of morpheme order in Hill Mari nominal paradigms.
The investigations of Daria Mordashova and Anastasia Sirotina focused on other linguistic issues they had worked on for several years. Daria discussed grammaticalization patterns of the verb *vilja in the Scandinavian languages, while Anastasia carried out her research on semantics, syntax and prosody of constructions with a colon.
All the three theses of our team members got excellent grades. The papers by Polina and Daria were recommended for publication. Some pictures from the defence are available here.
Polina Pleshak's paper deals with the morpho-syntax of a NP in Moksha and Hill Mari and to a great extent relies on the data collected within our field project. The author thoroughly analyzed the properties of dependents in a NP in Hill Mari and proposed a theoretical account of her data. Besides, Polina managed to convincingly explain the variation of morpheme order in Hill Mari nominal paradigms.
The investigations of Daria Mordashova and Anastasia Sirotina focused on other linguistic issues they had worked on for several years. Daria discussed grammaticalization patterns of the verb *vilja in the Scandinavian languages, while Anastasia carried out her research on semantics, syntax and prosody of constructions with a colon.
All the three theses of our team members got excellent grades. The papers by Polina and Daria were recommended for publication. Some pictures from the defence are available here.
28.05.2017
The 17th annual conference commemorating a Mari writer N. Ignatyev took place in the village of Paygusovo (Hill Mari district) on 28 May 2017. This conference traditionally brings together those working on Mari language, culture and history. This year one of the plenary speakers was Egor Kashkin, who gave a talk about the current results and further goals of our project. The slideshow is available here (in Russian). Some pictures can be viewed in the Gallery.
A section for useful links
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at our website
13.05.2017
We have launched a new website section called "Useful links". It contains information on other research projects on Hill Mari and Meadow Mari, as well as on popular websites. If you have anything to add, please do not hesitate to contact us.
12.04.2017
Four members of our team presented their talks at the section "Theoretical and Applied Linguistics" of the Science Day ("Lomonosov" conference) at the Faculty of Philology.
Maria Sidorova discussed Finno-Ugric approximate numeral phrases with a special emphasis laid on Hill Mari constructions with the lexeme närə̈. Whereas in both Uralic linguistics and typology approximate constructions have not been studied thoroughly enough, Hill Mari data contributes to the grammatical theory, as well as sheds light on some historical processes which influenced the synchronic language system. Maria's handout is available here (in Russian).
Ksenia Studenikina talked about how the noun 'head' is used in Russian, English, and German proverbs and what kinds of a semantic shift lie behind. These data were briefly compared with some published data of Meadow Mari.
The presentation by Daria Mordashova was devoted to how the verb 'will' is grammaticalized in Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic, taking into consideration both its semantic shifts and constructional properties.
Anastasia Sirotina gave a talk on the prosodic properties of Russian constructions with colon. She carried out an experiment which highlighted some characteristics of intonation, tempo etc. in these constructions.
Ksenia, Daria, and Anastasia received letters of commendation from the Faculty of Philology. And Maria's paper was approved for publication in the selected proceedings volume.
Some pictures from this conference can be viewed in the Gallery.
Maria Sidorova discussed Finno-Ugric approximate numeral phrases with a special emphasis laid on Hill Mari constructions with the lexeme närə̈. Whereas in both Uralic linguistics and typology approximate constructions have not been studied thoroughly enough, Hill Mari data contributes to the grammatical theory, as well as sheds light on some historical processes which influenced the synchronic language system. Maria's handout is available here (in Russian).
Ksenia Studenikina talked about how the noun 'head' is used in Russian, English, and German proverbs and what kinds of a semantic shift lie behind. These data were briefly compared with some published data of Meadow Mari.
The presentation by Daria Mordashova was devoted to how the verb 'will' is grammaticalized in Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic, taking into consideration both its semantic shifts and constructional properties.
Anastasia Sirotina gave a talk on the prosodic properties of Russian constructions with colon. She carried out an experiment which highlighted some characteristics of intonation, tempo etc. in these constructions.
Ksenia, Daria, and Anastasia received letters of commendation from the Faculty of Philology. And Maria's paper was approved for publication in the selected proceedings volume.
Some pictures from this conference can be viewed in the Gallery.
06.04.2017
Today Anastasia Sirotina gave a talk at the Student Conference of RSUH Institute for Linguistics. It was devoted to Hill Mari nominalizations on -mə̑ and -maš. These forms tend to remain underdescribed in traditional grammars. It turned out, however, that they differ sharply in their syntactic properties and in their process vs. resultative nature. This was the main point of the talk, supplemented with some distinctions between nominalizations in Hill Mari and in Meadow Mari (the latter having been previously described by N. Serdobolskaya et al.). The handout is available at our website (in Russian). And here one can view some pictures.
Our website launched
03.04.2017
We have been doing fieldwork on Hill Mari since 2016. Having collected some data, we launch a website to share information about our team, the news of our project, our talks, publications and photos. We will be grateful for any questions or feedback!
