Valentin Gusev
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valentin Gusev is involved.
Articles
2015 Temperature terms in Nganasan The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 537–569 | Article
This paper deals with the temperature expressions in Nganasan, a Samoyedic language spoken in the extreme north of Russia. Despite a very harsh climate with temperatures that may fall under -60°C, extreme temperature values are not lexically expressed in Nganasan: there are no dedicated means of… read more
2015 Negation in Nganasan Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 103–132 | Article
In Nganasan, verbal negation is expressed by the negative auxiliary ńi-, which takes all the inflectional suffixes from the main verb. There are two more negative markers: a constituent negator ńintuu and a predicative negator ďaŋku; the former is also used to negate attributive predications, and… read more
Shared ancestry and language contact in Northern Samoyedic: Phonological and morphological innovations Diachronica: Online-First Articles | Article
Using the Northern Samoyedic languages, Uralic languages spoken by nomads of Northern Siberia, we propose a new method to reconstruct histories of related languages in contact. The method consists of clustering languages by sets of shared innovations which happened after the breakup of their… read more