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Aspectual Prefix Variation in the Novel Russian Verbs

Gordeeva, Ksenia (University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)

The study compared prefix variation in novel verbs to prefix variation in standard Russian. Thirty-seven native speakers of Russian participated in the designed experiment. The experiment elicited the perfective verbs ...
Case and Gender Loss in Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund Languages

Alhazmi, Mofareh (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

My dissertation investigates the loss of morphological case and grammatical gender in the Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund languages. Crucial language-internal and language-external motivations are considered. To ...
Contingency, Contiguity, and Capacity: On the Meaning of the Instrumental Case Marking in Copular Predicative Constructions in Russian

Tretiak, Valeriia (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

This study investigates the use of the Instrumental case marking in copular predicative constructions in Russian. The study endeavors to explain why the case marking whose prototypical meaning cross-linguistically is that ...
Gender Assignment of Russian Indeclinable Nouns

Wang, Qiang (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

This thesis analyzes the grammatical gender assignment of Russian indeclinable nouns. Chapter I focuses on gender and agreement in Russian nouns. Previous assignment models failed to account for the non-neuter gender of a ...
On the Semantics of the Instrumental Case Marking in Russian: Constructions with Instrumental Complements

Tretiak, Valeriia (University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)

This thesis examines the Instrumental case marking on complements in constructions with verbs denoting movement of body parts, verbs that allow an alternation of the Instrumental and Accusative case marking, and verbs with ...
Patterns of Morphosyntactic and Functional Diversification in the Usage of Cognate Verbs in Indo-Iranian

Shirtz, Shahar (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

This is a study of processes of structural and functional diversification of the uses of three cognate verbs across the Indo-Iranian language family: “do/make”, “be/become”, and “give”. First, this study identifies over ...
The Grammar of Fear: Morphosyntactic Metaphor in Fear Constructions

Lakey, Holly (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)

This analysis explores the reflection of semantic features of emotion verbs that are metaphorized on the morphosyntactic level in constructions that express these emotions. This dissertation shows how the avoidance or ...