Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS) This series has been established as a companion series to the periodical Studies in Language. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs Editors Werner Abraham Elly van Gelderen University of Vienna / Arizona State University University of Munich Editorial Board Bernard Comrie Christian Lehmann Max Planck Institute, Leipzig University of Erfurt and University of California, Santa Barbara Marianne Mithun William Croft University of California, Santa Barbara University of New Mexico Heiko Narrog Östen Dahl Tohuku University University of Stockholm Johanna L. Wood Gerrit J. Dimmendaal University of Aarhus University of Cologne Debra Ziegeler Ekkehard König University of Paris III Free University of Berlin Volume 146 Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics Edited by Irina Kor Chahine Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics Edited by Irina Kor Chahine Université de Provence John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics / Edited by Irina Kor Chahine. p. cm. (Studies in Language Companion Series, issn 0165-7763 ; v. 146) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Slavic languages--Syntax. 2. Slavic languages--Grammar. 3. Slavic languages--History. I. Chahine, Irina Kor. PG201.C87 2013 491.8’045--dc23 2013034842 isbn 978 90 272 0613 8 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 7096 2 (Eb) © 2013 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents List of contributors vii Abbreviations ix Impersonals and beyond in Slavic 1 Marguerite Guiraud-Weber & Irina Kor Chahine section i. Morphosyntax Binding and morphology revisited 25 Steven Franks Possessor Raising and Slavic clitics 43 Anton Zimmerling The Slavonic languages and the development of the antipassive marker 61 Katarzyna Janic Clitic SE in Romance and Slavonic revisited 75 Marijana Marelj & Eric Reuland section ii. Syntactical relations The lazy speaker and the fascination of emptiness: Colloquial Russian from a typological perspective 91 Daniel Weiss Is the Polish verb iść an auxiliary to be? A corpus-based study of the construction iść + infinitive 123 Dorota Sikora Towards evidentiality markers in Albanian and Macedonian bilingual political discourse 139 Maxim Makartsev A strange variant of Russian čtoby-construction: Irreality and tense-marking 149 Alexander Letuchiy vi Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics section iii. Impersonal constructions Impersonal constructions in Serbian: A description within a Meaning <=> Text linguistic model 169 Jasmina Milićević Interpretation and voice in Polish SIĘ and –NO/–TO constructions 185 Małgorzata Krzek Dative-infinitive constructions in Russian: Taxonomy and semantics 199 Alina Israeli On the nature of dative arguments in Russian constructions with “predicatives” 225 Sergey Say Russian Adversity impersonals and split ergativity 247 Katrin Schlund section iv. Lexical semantics Morphological and lexical aspect in Russian deverbal nominalizations 267 Glòria de Valdivia, Joan Castellví & Mariona Taulé Lexical synonymy within the semantic field POWER 281 Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij & Ludmila Pöppel Collocations with nominal quantifiers: Semantics and combinability 297 Vladimir Beliakov Polysemy patterns in Russian adjectives and adverbs: A corpus-oriented database 313 Tatiana Reznikova, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Olga Karpova, Maria Kyuseva, Daria Ryzhova & Timofey Arkhangelskiy Language index 323 Name index 325 Subject index 329 List of contributors Timofey Arkhangelskiy Steven Franks National Research University Dept of Linguistics Higher School of Economics Memorial Hall 322 Khitrovskiy pereulok, dom 2/8 Indiana University korpus 5, room 308 1021 E. Third Street 109028 Moscow Bloomington, IN 47405-7005 Russia USA [email protected] [email protected] Vladimir Beliakov Marguerite Guiraud-Weber Université Toulouse II Aix-Marseille University CLLE-CNRS (UMR 5263) Résidence Le Chambord, bâtiment I 1 avenue des Romarins avenue René Cassin 31470 Fonsorbes 13100 Aix-en-Provence France France [email protected] [email protected] Joan Castellví Alina Israeli Dep. Lingüística General WLC, American University Gran Via 585 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW, 08007 Barcelona Washington DC 20016 Spain USA [email protected] [email protected] Dmitrij Dobrovoľskij Katarzyna Janic Russian Language Institute Université Lyon 2 Russian Academy of Sciences 86 rue Pasteur 18/2 ul. Volkhonka 69007 Lyon 119019 Moscow France Russia [email protected] [email protected] viii Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics Olga Karpova Maxim Makartsev Graduiertenschule für Institut slavyanovedenija RAN Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen Leninsky pr-t, 32a Historische Sternwarte 119334 Moscow Geismar Landstraße 11 Russia 37083 Göttingen [email protected] Germany [email protected] Marijana Marelj Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Irina Kor Chahine Utrecht University Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis Trans 10 UFR LASH – Département de Russe 3512 JK Utrecht 98 boulevard Édouard Herriot The Netherlands 06204 Nice Cedex 3 [email protected] France [email protected] Jasmina Milićević French Department Malgorzata Krzek Dalhousie University Linguistics Section, SELLL 6135 University Avenue Percy Building, Newcastle University Halifax (NS) Newcastle NE1 7RU B3H 4P9 United Kingdom Canada [email protected] [email protected] Maria Kyuseva Ludmila Pöppel National Research University Institute of Slavic Languages and Higher School of Economics Literatures Khitrovskiy pereulok, dom 2/8 Stockholm University korpus 5, room 308, SE-10691 Stockholm 109028 Moscow Sweden Russia [email protected] [email protected] Ekaterina Rakhilina Alexander Letuchiy National Research University National Research University Higher School of Economics Higher School of Economics Khitrovskiy pereulok, dom 2/8, Khitrovskiy pereulok, dom 2/8 korpus 5, room 308 109028 Moscow 109028 Moscow Russia Russia [email protected] [email protected] List of contributors ix Eric Reuland Dorota Sikora Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS ATILF-CNRS (UMR 7118) Utrecht University 44, avenue de la Libération Achter de Dom 20 BP 30687 3512 JP Utrecht 54063 Nancy Cedex The Netherlands France [email protected] [email protected] Tatiana Reznikova Mariona Taulé National Research University Dep. Lingüística General Higher School of Economics Gran Via 585 Khitrovskiy pereulok, dom 2/8 08007 Barcelona korpus 5, room 308 Spain 109028 Moscow [email protected] Russia [email protected] Glòria de Valdivia Dep. Lingüística General Daria Ryzhova Gran Via 585, 08007 Barcelona National Research University Spain Higher School of Economics [email protected] Khitrovskiy pereulok, dom 2/8 korpus 5, room 308 Daniel Weiss 109028 Moscow Slavisches Seminar der Russia Universität Zürich [email protected] Plattenstr. 43 CH-8032 Zürich Sergey Say Switzerland Institute for Linguistic Studies [email protected] Russian Academy of Sciences Tuchkov per. 9 Anton Zimmerling 199004 St. Petersburg Institute for Modern Linguistic Russia Research, SMSUH [email protected] Smolnaya str. 37-88 125195 Moscow Katrin Schlund Russia Heidelberg University [email protected] Slavisches Institut Schulgasse 6 69117 Heidelberg Germany [email protected]