Polina Nasledskova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Polina Nasledskova is involved.
Articles
2026 The ‘say’ strategy for ordinal numerals in East Caucasian: Conflicting evidence on the evolution of a rare morphosyntactic pattern Studies in Language: Online-First Articles | Article
Many East Caucasian languages form ordinal numerals by means of a participle form of the verb ‘say’. This way of ordinal formation, which we refer to as the ‘say’ strategy, is cross-linguistically rare. In this paper we analyze the genealogical and areal distribution of the ‘say’ strategy within… read more
2025 Demonstrative pronouns in Kina Rutul Studies in Language 49:2, pp. 456–477 | Article
This paper presents the results of an experimental study of exophoric uses of demonstrative pronouns in the Kina variety of Rutul (Lezgic, East Caucasian). We collected the questionnaire designed by Wilkins (1999) from seven female native speakers of different ages to determine the spatial… read more
