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Fitzgibbons, Natalia Viktorovna – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates licensing conditions of dependent indefinite pronouns, such as negative concord items and pronouns that depend on the presence of a c-commanding quantifier. In Chapter 2, I examine freestanding negative concord items in Russian. I provide a novel empirical generalization that freestanding negative concord items…
Descriptors: Sentences, Morphemes, Russian, Form Classes (Languages)
Alexieva, Petia Dimitrova – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines the process of acquisition of semantic classes of reflexive verbs (RVs) in Russian by L2 learners with a native language English. The purpose of this study is to bridge the gap between current linguistic knowledge and the pedagogical literature existing in English on reflexives in Russian. RVs are taught partially and…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Semantics, Verbs
Mikhaylova, Anna – Heritage Language Journal, 2012
This study reports the results of an interpretation task that captures whether high proficiency heritage language (HL) learners of Russian converge with monolingual (L1) speakers or proficiency-matched foreign language (L2) learners in their interpretation of aspectual pairs and whether the absence of convergence arises in the lexical component of…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Monolingualism, Verbs, Russian
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, Ed.; Félix-Brasdefer, J. César, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2016
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2014 International Conference of Pragmatics and Language Learning at Indiana University. It includes fourteen papers on a variety of topics, with a diversity of first and second languages, and a wide range of methods used to collect pragmatic data in L2 and FL settings. This volume is…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
Tsurska, Olena Anatoliyivna – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study presents a comparative analysis of the clausal architecture and sentential negation in East (Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian), West, Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Upper and Lower Sorbian), and South (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, and Slovenian) languages. Using the Minimalist Program, I analyze the syntactic structure…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Verbs, Syntax
McAnallen, Julia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The languages of the world encode possession in a variety of ways. In Slavic languages, possession on the level of the clause, or predicative possession, is represented by two main encoding strategies. Most Slavic languages, including those in the West and South Slavic sub-groupings, use a "have" verb comparable to English have and German "haben."…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Speech Communication, Linguistic Borrowing, Diachronic Linguistics
Kiran, Swathi; Iakupova, Regina – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
The goal of this study was to address the relationship between language proficiency, language impairment and rehabilitation in bilingual Russian-English individuals with aphasia. As a first step, we examined two Russian-English patients' pre-stroke language proficiency using a detailed and comprehensive language use and history questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Semantics, Second Languages, Aphasia
Milobog, Magdalena; Garrett, Peter – Language Awareness, 2011
This paper reports a study of perceptions and attitudes relating to regional varieties of Polish. The methodology followed folk linguistic approaches to attitudes research. Respondents in two Polish provinces were asked to draw on a map of Poland where they thought the main regional varieties of Polish were spoken, and then to name and…
Descriptors: Dialects, Semantics, Semantic Differential, Interpersonal Relationship
Wolff, Phillip; Ventura, Tatyana – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
We examined how the semantics of causal expressions in Russian and English might differ and how these differences might lead to changes in the way second language learners understand causal expressions in their first language. According to the dynamics model of causation (Wolff, 2007), expressions of causation based on CAUSE verbs (make, force)…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Second Languages, Monolingualism
Lysinger, Diana – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation offers a Cognitive Grammar-based approach to teaching cases to L2 German and Russian students and examines the impacts of various methods of case instruction in beginning German and Russian language classes. A CG-based explanation of cases was already proposed by some CG theorists (i.e., Langacker 1987, 1991; Smith 1987, Janda…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Textbooks, Semantics, Second Language Learning
Manin, Dmitrii Y. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Zipf's law states that if words of language are ranked in the order of decreasing frequency in texts, the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to its rank. It is very reliably observed in the data, but to date it escaped satisfactory theoretical explanation. This article suggests that Zipf's law may result from a hierarchical organization…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Frequency, Russian, Classification
Mikhaylova, Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation compares the knowledge of Russian Verbal Aspect in two types of learners enrolled in college level Russian courses: foreign language learners of Russian whose native language is English and heritage language speakers of Russian whose dominant language at the time of study is English. Russian Aspect is known to be problematic both…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Native Speakers, Language Acquisition
Decomposition into Multiple Morphemes during Lexical Access: A Masked Priming Study of Russian Nouns
Kazanina, Nina; Dukova-Zheleva, Galina; Geber, Dana; Kharlamov, Viktor; Tonciulescu, Keren – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
The study reports the results of a masked priming experiment with morphologically complex Russian nouns. Participants performed a lexical decision task to a visual target that differed from its prime in one consonant. Three conditions were included: (1) "transparent," in which the prime was morphologically related to the target and contained the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Morphemes, Russian
Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
This study focused on the role of bilingual versus monolingual preschool education in the development of lexical knowledge in Russian (L1) and Hebrew (L2) among second-generation Russian-Hebrew speaking immigrants in Israel. The study was designed as a longitudinal and comparative study. The lexical knowledge of children was measured three times…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech Communication, Preschool Education, Semantics
Shafiro, Valeriy; Kharkhurin, Anatoliy V. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
Abstract Does native language phonology influence visual word processing in a second language? This question was investigated in two experiments with two groups of Russian-English bilinguals, differing in their English experience, and a monolingual English control group. Experiment 1 tested visual word recognition following semantic…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Vowels, Phonology, Semantics