Viktor Samuilovic Chrakovskij Libri

This collective volume from the Language Typology Workshop at the St. Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Studies explores taxis (relative tense) constructions across various languages. Building on research initiated in the 1960s, it examines grammatical verb categories linked to the semantic and syntactic structures of sentences. Previous publications include studies on resultative, iterative, imperative, conditional, reciprocal, and concessive constructions. The book is divided into two parts and an appendix. Part 1 provides foundational insights into taxis studies, presenting a theoretical framework that highlights both common semantic properties and typological grammatical differences among languages. This framework establishes a typology of taxis verb forms and characterizes prototypical and peripheral constructions, along with calculi for their meanings. Part 2 features two sections comprising 20 chapters that describe taxis constructions in various languages, following a uniform approach based on a common questionnaire. Contributors include a diverse group of linguists from Russia, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, Germany, and Sweden, among others. The volume is published as part of LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics and spans 710 pages.

The present volume has been prepared by the Language Typology Workshop of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Linguistic Research. The book continues the earlier studies of the Workshop addressing grammatical categories of the verb linked to the semantic and syntactic structure of the (ed. A.A. Kholodovich) Typology of Causative Constructions, Leningrad, 1969; (ed. A.A. Kholodovich) Typology of Passive Constructions, Leningrad, 1974; (ed. V.P. Nedjalkov) Typology of Resultative Constructions, Amsterdam, 1988; (ed. V.S. Xrakovskij) Typology of Iterative Constructions, LINCOM EUROPA, Munchen, 1997; etc. The monograph focuses on imperative sentences and verb forms used in them. The main objective of this work is, by proceeding from the universal definition of the imperative concept, to describe the imperative sentences from the angle of language typology.

The present book has been prepared by the Language Typology Workshop of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Linguistic Research. The book continues the earlier studies of the Workshop addressing the syntactic structure of the (ed. A.A. Kholodovich) Typology of Causative Constructions, "Nauka": Leningrad, 1969, (ed. A.A. Kholodovich) Typology of Passive constructions, "Nauka": Leningrad, 1974, (ed. V.P. Nedjalkov) Typology of resultative constructions, Amsterdam 1988, etc. The monograph focuses on the semantic category of multiplicity of situations realized in utterances. The main objective of this work is, by proceeding from content to form, to determine grammatical, lexical, and contextual means of expressing the specific meanings of plurality, viz. the iterative, the multiplicative, and the distributive both in a single language and in different languages.