Sergey Say

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sergey Say is involved.

Title

Areal Effects on Argument-Coding Patterns

Edited by Daria Alfimova, Kirill Kozhanov and Sergey Say

Special issue of Studies in Language 49:4 (2025) v, 201 pp.

Alfimova, Daria, Kirill Kozhanov and Sergey Say 2025 Areal effects on argument-coding patterns: Problems, progress, and prospects Areal Effects on Argument-Coding Patterns, Alfimova, Daria, Kirill Kozhanov and Sergey Say (eds.), pp. 757–777 | Introduction

This article introduces the special issue on valency-related phenomena, with a focus on the areal dimension in the cross-linguistic distribution of argument-coding patterns. A central concern is how areal effects shape these distributions and how they can be distinguished from genealogical… read more

Kozhanov, Kirill and Sergey Say 2025 Variation in valency patterns across Romani dialects is primarily shaped by contact languages Areal Effects on Argument-Coding Patterns, Alfimova, Daria, Kirill Kozhanov and Sergey Say (eds.), pp. 858–893 | Article

This paper examines the effects of language contact on valency patterns by comparing Romani dialects with their contact languages. Due to their wide dispersion and extensive contact with diverse European languages, Romani dialects provide an excellent testing ground for exploring the interplay… read more

Say, Sergey 2021 Chapter 6. Antipassive and the lexical meaning of verbs Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), pp. 177–212 | Chapter

Descriptions of antipassive constructions in individual languages show that these constructions are often compatible with only a subset of transitive verbs. There are significant typological similarities between the sets of verbs that allow antipassivization. The following properties are typical… read more

Ovsjannikova, Maria and Sergey Say 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

Say, Sergey 2013 On the Nature of Dative Arguments in Russian Constructions with «Predicatives» Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics, Kor Chahine, Irina (ed.), pp. 225–246 | Article

Based on diachronic corpus data, the ability of Russian predicatives (категория состояния, items like холодно ‘it is cold’, грустно ‘it is sad’, приятно ‘it is pleasant’) to co-occur with dative Experiencers is compared to the ability of corresponding adjectives to co-occur with Experiencers. The… read more

Say, Sergey 2005 Antipassive Sja-Verbs in Russian: Between Inflection and Derivation Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004, Dressler, Wolfgang U., Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer (eds.), pp. 253–275 | Article

Say, Sergey 2004 Grammaticalization of word order: Evidence from Lithuanian Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization, Fischer, Olga, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 363–384 | Article