Valentin Vydrin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valentin Vydrin is involved.
2025 Valency patterns in Mande: Contact vs inheritance Areal Effects on Argument-Coding Patterns, Alfimova, Daria, Kirill Kozhanov and Sergey Say (eds.), pp. 823–857 | Article
In this paper, we address valency patterns in seven Mande languages with various degrees of genealogical proximity. Our study is based on the BivalTyp questionnaire focusing on 130 two-place predicates (Say 2020). While belonging to two distinct genetic groupings, two languages of the set, i.e.… read more
2021 Chapter 5. Eastern Dan Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 85–106 | Chapter
2011 Ergative/Absolutive and Active/Stative alignment in West Africa: The case of Southwestern Mande Studies in Language 35:2, pp. 409–443 | Article
It is usually believed that non-accusative alignment systems are very rare in Africa. A thorough study of the verbal systems of the Southwestern Mande languages (Looma, Mende, Kpelle) has shown that this group is an exception. The Ergative/Absolutive types of argument coding and semantic alignment… read more
2009 Negation in South Mande Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, Cyffer, Norbert, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), pp. 223–260 | Article
Southern Mande languages, spoken in Côte-d’Ivoire, Liberia and Guinea, display
different strategies in the expression of negation. The most frequent one consists in
the use of special “negative” series of personal subject pronouns (all Dan languages,
Mano, Tura, Guro, Yaure, Mwan, Beng).… read more
2007 46. Reciprocal and sociative constructions in Bamana Reciprocal Constructions, Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. (ed.), pp. 1915–1940 | Chapter
2006 Emergence of morphological cases in South Mande: From the amorphous type to inflectional? Case, Valency and Transitivity, Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.), pp. 49–64 | Article