Nina Dobrushina
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nina Dobrushina is involved.
2024 Evaluation between grammar and context: The case of blessings and curses Diachronica 41:5, pp. 605–634 | Article
This paper analyzes how the grammatical meaning of qualitative evaluation is developed in optatives which denote blessings and curses. Based on the analysis of several Turkic forms and several Russian constructions, this study distinguishes the grammatical meaning of evaluation from a pragmatic… read more
2021 Negation in complement clauses of fear-verbs Functions of Language 28:2, pp. 121–152 | Article
Complement clauses of verbs of fear often contain expletive negation, which is negative marking without negative meaning. Expletive negation in fear-complements regularly co-occurs with non-indicative moods, such as subjunctive, conjunctive, or conditional. The aim of this paper is to provide a… read more
2018 Chapter 6. Field linguistics in Daghestan: A very personal account Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker (eds.), pp. 79–94 | Chapter
2008 Imperatives in conditional and concessive subordinate clauses Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages, Vajda, Edward J. (ed.), pp. 123–141 | Article
2005 Inclusive imperative Clusivity: Typology and case studies of the inclusive–exclusive distinction, Filimonova, Elena (ed.), pp. 179–211 | Chapter