• A Grammar of Kolyma Yukaghir. Mouton Grammar Library, 27. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter (2003)

  Reviews by

  • Michael Fortescue, Anthropological Linguistics 45-3 (2003): 346-48
  • Andrew Spencer, Sibirica 3-2 (2003): 225-26
  • Edward Vaida, Linguist List (2003) 14.2413

  Review article by

  Irina Nikolaeva, Linguistic Typology 9-2 (2005): 299-326.

• Tundra Yukaghir. Munchen: LINCOM EUROPA. Languages of the World/Materials 372 (2003)


• (Ed.) Yukaghir Texts. Tunguso-Sibirica 7. Harrassowitz Verlag. (2001)

  Reviews by

  • Bernard Comrie, Anthropological Linguistics 44-4 (2002): 419-21
  • Michael Knüppel, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 127 (2002): 332-34
  • Vaida, Edward, Language 79-4 (2003): 813.



• Vzaimodejstvie kommunikativnoj i sintaksičeskoj struktur v prostom predloženii jukagirskogo jazyka (Avtoreferat kandidatskoj dissertacii). [Interaction Between Information Packaging and Syntactic Organization of Clause in Yukaghir. A Summary of Ph.D. Dissertation.] Leningrad: Institute of Linguistics. Doctoral Dissertation (1989)

(with Tatiana Nikitina) Stochastic universals and dynamics of cross-linguistic distributions: the case of alignment types (submitted to Linguistic Typology). [PDF, ms]

Èvoljucionnaja stabil'nost' grammatičeskix strategij organizacii diskursa. [Evolutionary stability of grammatical strategies of discourse organization.]. To appear in Diskursivnye funkcii grammatičeskix pokazatelej [Discourse functions of grammatical markers], 4 (2007).[ PDF (in Russian)]

Reflexive encoding of reciprocity: Cross-linguistic and language-internal variation. To appear in Ekkehard König, & Volker Gast (Eds.), Reciprocals and reflexives: Cross-linguistic and theoretical explorations (2007). [ PDF]

Reciprocal and Polyadic (remarkable reciprocals in Bantu). To appear in Vladmir P. Nedjalkov (Ed.), Typology of reciprocal constructions. [ PDF]

Reciprocals in Yukaghir. To appear in Vladmir P. Nedjalkov (Ed.), Typology of reciprocal constructions. [ PDF]

Dual nominalization in Yukaghir: Structural ambiguity as semantic duality. (To appear in 2006). [ PDF]

Stochastic OT as a model of constraint interaction. To appear in Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling, Chris Manning, Jane Simpson, & Annie Zaenen (Eds.), Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: A Festschrift for Joan Bresnan. CSLI publications. (2006; ROA preprint (PDF)).

(with Giuliano Bernini) Sentence topics in the languages of Europe and beyond. To appear in Giuliano Bernini and Marcia L. Schwarz (Eds.), Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe. (Vol. 20-8). Mouton de Gruyter. (2006). [ PDF]

Meta-typological distributions. To appear in Sprachtypologie und Universalienvorshung. (2006). [ PDF]

Information focus in relational clause structure. In Tasaku Tsunoda, & Taro Kageyama (Eds.), Voice and Grammatical Relations: In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani. (pp. 175-94). Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. (2006). [ PDF, ms]

Conditionals in the Yukaghir languages. In Viktor Xrakovskij, S. (Ed.), Typology of Conditional Constructions.< (pp. 612-28). München: LINCOM. (2005). [ PDF]

Information structure in Tundra Yukaghir and typology of focus structures. In Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest (Ed.), Les langues ouraliennes aujourd'hui : Approche linguistique et cognitive. (pp. 599-610). Honoré Champion. (2005). [ PDF]

(with Vladimir P. Nedjalkov) Reciprocal constructions. In Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gill, & Bernard Comrie (Eds.), The World Atlas of Language Structures. (pp. 430-33). New York: Oxford University Press. (2005). [ PDF]

K tipologii prospektiva: kategorija providencialisa v jukagirskix jazykax [Towards a typology of prospective: Providential in the Yukaghir languages]. In Yuri Lander, Vladimir Plungian, & Anna Urmanichieva (Eds.) Irrealis and Irreality, (pp. 212-25). (2004). [ PDF]

Dinamika tipologičeskix raspredelenij i stabil'nost' jazykovyx tipov. [Dynamics of typological distributions and stability of language types]. Voprosy jazykoznanija, 5, 3-16. (2004). [ PDF, in Russian]

(with Christian Lehmann) Grammaticography. In Geert E. Boji, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, & Stavros Skopeteas (Eds.), An International Handbook on Inflection and Word-formation. (Vol. 2, pp. 1857-82). Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (2004).

A universal constraint on the sensory lexicon, or when hear can mean ‘see'?. In Aleksandr P. Volodin (Ed.), Tipologičeskie obosnovanija v grammatike: k 70-letiju professora Xrakovskogo V.S. (pp. 300-12). Moscow: Znak. (2004). [ PDF, ms]

A case for implicational universals (A response to Michael Cysouw). Linguistic Typology, 7-1, 101-08. (2003).[ PDF]

Evidentiality in Yukaghir. In Alexandra Aikhenvald, & Robert M. W Dixon (Eds.), Studies in Evidentiality. (pp. 219-35). Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. (2003). [ PDF]

From Imperfective to Progressive via Relative Present. In Aspect. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of Berkeley Linguistic Society, 431-443 (2000). [PDF]

Text Corpora: Grammatical queries and morphemic indices. Linguistic Exploration: Workshop on Web-based documentation and description. (2000; Web publication (HTML))

A dynamic approach to the verification of distributional universals. Linguistic Typology, 4-3, 307-33. (2000).

[with comments by Matthew Dryer, Revere Perkins and Fritz Schweiger in the same volume]

Stochastic models in typology: obstacle or prerequisite: Author’s response to commentaries. Linguistic Typology, 4-3, 357-64. (2000).

Reciprocals and set construal. In Zygmunt Frajzyngier, & Traci S Curl (Eds.), Reciprocals: Forms and Functions. (pp. 161-78). Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. (2000).

Uslovnye konstrukcii v jazyke kolymkix jukagirov. [Conditional constructions in Kolyma Yukaghir]. In V.S. Xrakovskij (Ed.), Tipologija uslovnyx konstrukcij. (pp. 569-87). Moscow: Nauka. (1998).

(with Eugene Levine) Multimedia language documentation system. Preliminary specifications. Allgemein-Vergleichende Grammatik, Arbeitspapier 19. (1997).

LDS Corups: Grammar-oriented representations. Allgemein-Vergleichende Grammatik, Arbeitspapier 18. (1997).

Yukagir focus system in a typological perspective. Journal of Pragmatics, 27, 457-75. (1997).

(with Nikolay B. Vakhtin) The Far North-East of Russia (map & text). In S. A Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler, & D. T. Tryon (Eds.), Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. (pp. 999-1001, Map 111). Berlin ; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (1996).

VS/SV in Russian and the thetic/categorical distinction. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 48 1/2, 106-24. (1995).

An approach to typology of sentence topics. In Giuliano Bernini (Ed.), Eurotyp Working Papers, 1-5. (1994).

O kriterii objazatel'nosti v morfologii. [The criterion of obligatoriness in morphology]. Izvestija rossijskoj akademii nauk, serija literatury i jazyka, 53-3, 44-50. (1994).

Jukagirskij jazyk. [The Yukaghir language]. Krasnaja kniga jazykov narodov Rossii. Moscow. (1994).

Cognitive strategies in the formation of topic constructions. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 17, 127-39. (1994).

The causative in Yukaghir. In Bernard Comrie, & Maria Polinsky (Eds.), Causatives and Transitivity. Studies in Language companion series, v. 23. (pp. 271-85). Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. (1993).

Grammatical encoding of pragmatic functions: The cases of Aleut and Yukagir. In Giuliano Bernini, & Davido Ricca (Eds.), Topic. Working Papers of Eurotyp 1-1. (1992).

Resultative and combined meanings in Kolyma Yukagir. Funcion, 11-12, 77-106. (1992).

Imperativ v jazyke kolymskix jukagirov. [Imperative in Kolyma Yukaghir.]. In L. A. Birjulin, & V. S. Xrakovskij (Eds.), Funkcional'no-tipologičeskie aspekty analiza imperativa. Čast' 1. Grammatika i tipologija povelitel'nyx predloženij. (pp. 27-31). Moscow: Institute of Linguistics. (1990).

Reciprok v jukagirskom jazyke. [Reciprocal in Yukaghir]. Sowjetische Finnisch-Ugrische Sprachwissenschaft, XXV-2, 120-27. (1989).

K voprosu o jukagirskom zaloge [About voice in Yukaghir]. (p.103-113). In F.V. Bondarko (Ed.), Funkcional'nyj analiz jazykovyx edinic. Moscow: Institute of Linguistics. (1989).

Verojatnostnye ocenki pozicii otkrytogo udarnogo sloga v morfemnoj strukture slitnoj russkoj reči. [A probabilistic analysis of the position of an open accented syllable in the morphemic structure of Russian discourse]. Naučno-texničeskaja informacija. Avtomatizacija obrabotki teksta, 2-2, 22-28. (1988).

Rangovye konstrukcii predloženija v jazyke tundrennyx jukagirov. [“Ranking” constructions in Tundra Yukaghir]. In L. A. Birjulin (Ed.), Problematika vzaimodejstvija jazykovyx urovnej. (pp. 120-27). Leningrad: Institute of Linguistics. (1988).

Sintaksičeskie klassy imennyx grupp v jazyke tundrennyx jukagirov. [Syntactic classes of noun phrases in Tundra Yukaghir]. In L. A. Birjulin (Ed.), Problematika vzaimodejstvija jazykovyx urovnej. (pp. 128-35). Leningrad: Institute of Linguistics. (1988).

Review articles

WERNER, H. “Die Ketische Sprache” & “Abriß der Kottischen Grammatik.” Linguistic Typology 5-1 (2001): 98-105.

McGREGOR, W. “Semiotic Grammar.” Studies in Language 3 (1999): 651-62.

Reviews

GIVÓN, T. "Bio-Linguistics. The Santa Barbara Lectures." Amsterdam – Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2002." Language 81-1 (2005): 245-47.

MARTIN-VIDE, C., (Ed.) “Mathematical and Computational Analysis of Natural Language.” Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 7-3 (2000): 251-55.

AIKHENVALD, A.Y., R.M.W. DIXON, and M. ONISHI (Eds.) (2001) Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects. John Benjamins, Typological Studies in Language 46. Linguist List, 12-2658.1.

KAMPFE, H.-R. and A.P. VOLODIN (1995) Abriss der tschuktschischen Grammatik auf der Basis der Schriftssprache. Linguistic Typology. 5-1 (2001), 94-98.

STEFAN, G. and A.P. VOLODIN (1999) Die itelmenische Sprache. Grammatik und Texte. Linguistic Typology. 5-1 (2001), 105-110.

REBUSCHI, G. & L. TULLER (Eds.) The Grammar of Focus (1999). Linguist List, 12-845.1.

PLUNGYAN, V.A. (1993) Verb in an agglutinating language (the case of Dogon). In: St. Petersburg Journal of African Studies 2. (1994).

BECHERT, J., G. BERNINI and C. BURIDANT (eds.) (1990) Toward a Typology of European Languages. Linguistics 31 (1993).

Invited talks

• The concept of evolutionary stability in syntax: the case of information structure. (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 2006). [ slides (PDF)]
• Alignment types: stochastic universals and diachronic tendencies. To be presented at the international conference on the occasion of A.A.Kholodovich's centenary, “Typology and general linguistics.” (St. Petersburg, 2006)
• Yukaghir focus: the story of discovery and the path of emergence. To be presented at the conference on the occasion of E.A.Krejnovich's centenary, “The languages of Siberia: structure, typology, genetic affiliation.” (St. Petersburg, 2006)
• Aspects of uniqueness. Paper presented at the 3rd Oxford-Kobe Linguistics Seminar, “The linguistics of endangered languages.” (Kobe, 2006) [ text (PDF)]
• A meta-analysis of typological distributions. Paper presented at the workshop on the World Atlas of Language Structures (Leipzig, 2004)
• Cross-linguistic and language-internal variation in the role of reflexive marking in reciprocal encoding. Paper presented at the workshop on reflexives and reciprocals (Free University of Berlin, 2004)
• Distributional universals and stability of linguistic parameters. Paper presented at Stanford University, Linguistics Department Colloquium (2002)
• Distributional universals and the rate of type shifts: towards a dynamic approach to "probability sampling". Lecture given at the 3rd Winter Typological School. (Moscow, 2002) Handout, revised (PDF)
• Stochastic typology and Optimality Theory. Paper presented at Stanford Optimality/Variation/Change Seminar (Stanford, 2001) (Summary (HTML))
• Evidential in Yukaghir. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Evidentials, Research Center for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University (Melbourne, 2001)
• Language universals and distributions of linguistic traits over the world’s languages. Paper presented at Neyman Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Statistics (2001)
• On linguistic interpretation of quantitative cross-linguistic data. Paper presented at the Bay Area Typology Workshop (University of California, Berkeley, 2001). [Slides (PDF)]

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