Yury Lander
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yury Lander is involved.
2026 Circassian relatives: A contribution to the synchronic and diachronic typology of the externally/internally-headed relative clause distinction Studies in Language 50:1, pp. 33–67 | Article
This paper documents relative clause constructions in the polysynthetic Circassian languages of the West Caucasian family and attempts to establish diachronic links between them. It is shown that the Circassian languages possess both externally-headed and internally-headed relative clauses, with… read more
2017 Nominal complex in West Circassian: Between morphology and syntax Studies in Language 41:1, pp. 76–98 | Article
The paper presents a description and an analysis of the nominal complex, a peculiar construction which includes a noun and its modifiers, in West Circassian, a polysynthetic language of the Northwest Caucasian family. The nominal complex shows properties of a single word and tends to follow the… read more
2017 Valency-decreasing operations in a valency-increasing language? Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives, Álvarez González, Albert and Ia Navarro (eds.), pp. 285–304 | Chapter
This paper surveys valency-changing operations in West Circassian (Adyghe), a polysynthetic language of the Northwest Caucasian family. This language has an amazing number of means to increase valency, which include various kinds of applicativization and causativization. In this paper we also… read more
2010 From interrogatives to placeholders in Udi and Agul spontaneous narratives Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders, Amiridze, Nino, Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan (eds.), pp. 95–118 | Article
The paper describes the form and behavior of placeholders in Udi and Agul, two languages belonging to the Lezgic branch of the Northeast Caucasian family. The placeholders found in these languages show clear similarity despite the fact that they developed independently. In both languages, nominal… read more
2005 How to do things with primes Studies in Language 29:2, pp. 463–476 | Article