Dmitry Idiatov
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dmitry Idiatov is involved.
2020 Perfective marking conditioned by transitivity status in Western Mande: Constructional competition, specialization and merger Diachronica 37:1, pp. 43–82 | Article
This paper provides a diachronic construction-based explanation of the differential perfective marking conditioned by transitivity status in Western Mande languages, using the Greater Manding group as an exemplar case. This typologically unusual phenomenon has previously been erroneously cast in… read more
2015 Clause-final negative markers in Bobo and Samogo: Parallel evolution and contact Journal of Historical Linguistics 5:2, pp. 235–266 | Article
As many other languages of northern sub-Saharan Africa, almost all Bobo and Samogo languages (two distantly related Mande groups) exhibit prominently clause-final negative markers (CFNMs), a cross-linguistically uncommon property. Unlike negators in other parts of the world, CFNMs in the area prove… read more
2010 Person–number agreement on clause linking markers in Mande Studies in Language 34:4, pp. 832–868 | Article
Several Mande languages, viz. Jula of Samatiguila, Ko Mende, Jowulu, Yaba Southern San, and Tura, have person–number agreement on clause linking markers whose primary function, etymologically and often also synchronically, is to introduce reported discourse. Interestingly, in some of these… read more
2008 Antigrammaticalization, antimorphologization and the case of Tura Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization, Seoane, Elena and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 151–169 | Article