Olesya Khanina
List of John Benjamins publications in which Olesya Khanina is involved.
2022 Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread Diachronica 39:4, pp. 490–524 | Article
The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo-Iranian; other points of intersection or diagnostic non-intersection with early Indo-European (the Late… read more
2021 Enets-Russian language contact Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union, Forker, Diana and Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.), pp. 85–118 | Chapter
This paper explores the topic of Enets-Russian language contact from two perspectives: via a thorough description of sociolinguistic details of the contact (based on sociolinguistic interviews performed by the author in 2017, complemented by ethnographic data from the 1920s–1940s) and via an… read more
2020 Competing ditransitive constructions in Enets Functions of Language 27:3, pp. 247–279 | Article
This paper reports on a corpus study of two ditransitive constructions in Enets (Uralic, Samoyedic): the standard ditransitive construction and the so-called Destinative construction involving a specific destinative nominal morpheme. We suggest that the mutual distribution of the two competing… read more
2010 Reply to Goddard and Wierzbicka Studies in Language 34:1, pp. 124–130 | Article
2008 How universal is wanting? Studies in Language 32:4, pp. 818–865 | Article
The paper reports on a cross-linguistic survey of translational equivalents of the Standard Average European concept of wanting. It is conducted on a variety sample of 73 languages, each of which was checked for morphosyntactic and semantic properties of its regular means for expressing wanting, i. read more
2008 Finites structures in Forest Enets subordination: A case study of language change under strong Russian influence Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages, Vajda, Edward J. (ed.), pp. 63–75 | Article