Maria Ovsjannikova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Ovsjannikova is involved.
Articles
2026 Distance-based approach reveals convergence effects in word order among the languages of the Circum-Baltic linguistic area Studies in Language 50:2, pp. 259–293 | Article
We probe a new approach to linguistic areas. Instead of similarity of a feature across languages of the area, we focus on its adaptation to the area. Adaptation is a set of changes and/or retentions in a language towards, but not necessarily into, similarity with the other languages of the area.… read more
2014 Between predicative and attributive possession in Bashkir On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), pp. 175–202 | Article
Bashkir employs the genitive strategy for predicative possessive construction (‘he has a car’ literally is ‘his car exists’). However, in predicative possessive constructions the genitival possessor shows syntactic properties that are mostly indicative of its clause-level status. Some other uses… read more