Anastasia Makarova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anastasia Makarova is involved.
Articles
2018 The decade construction rivalry in Russian: Using a corpus to study historical linguistics Diachronica 35:1, pp. 71–106 | Article
This article addresses the diachronic development of so-called rival forms, i.e., words or grammatical constructions that appear to be synonyms, based on a detailed empirical analysis of two seemingly synonymous constructions in Russian. Corresponding to the English ‘decade construction’ in the… read more
2014 Testing the Semantic Homogeneity Constraint: Analogical change and Russian verbs Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:2, pp. 161–191 | Article
Although it has been widely assumed in historical linguistics that semantics plays a crucial role in analogical change, it is difficult to pinpoint the contribution of the semantic factor, since meaning and form work closely together in bringing about language change. The purpose of the present… read more