Kirill Kozhanov

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kirill Kozhanov 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.

Kozhanov, Kirill, Ilja A. Seržant and Eleni Bužarovska 2026 Evolution of differential object marking in Macedonian dialects Diachronica 43:2, pp. 159–188 | Article

By the late Middle Ages, a part of South Slavic, including Macedonian and Bulgarian, had lost nominal case inflection, leading to the disappearance of the old Slavic differential object marking (DOM) system. In the 19th century, some southern Macedonian dialects developed a new DOM system based… read more

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

Kozhanov, Kirill 2016 Verbal prefixation and argument structure in Lithuanian Argument Realization in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel and Nicole Nau (eds.), pp. 363–402 | Article

This paper describes the possible changes affecting a verb’s argument structure when a prefix is added. The analyzed data show that most often attachment of a prefix adds a new slot to a verb’s valency, namely a peripheral adjunct becomes a core argument usually marked by the accusative. This… read more