ИСТИНА

Целью является построение объяснительной типологии порядка слов и иных типов грамматического кодирования, учитывающей интерфейсное взаимодействие грамматики и информационной структуры.

The proposed 2018 project aims at investigating word order typology, communicative-syntax interface and information structure in an open class of world languages including Indo-European and Non-Indo-European languages of Russian Federation, Europe and languages sharing with them given values of grammatical parameters. Modeling of the information structure-to-grammar interface involves two types of research tasks: 1) parametrizing language-specific mechanisms which license word order and mark communicative status of sentence elements by segmental (e.g. adding morphosyntactic markers and function words) and supersegmental cues (word order, intonation); 2) optimizing formal models of grammar and developing modules and rules sets which predict changes in grammatical structure triggered by information structure. We set following specific research tasks: 1) to investigate mechanisms of predicative, possessive and attributive agreement in a number of genetically unrelated languages and provide explanation in terms of the modern theories of agreement, clause structure and noun phrase structure. In order to achieve this goal we are going to develop an experimental methodology for an adequate empirical study of these phenomena in the context of multivariate selection of agreement strategy. 2) to study syntactic properties of complex predicative constructions in their synchronic and diachronic aspect. The evidence will come from correlative constructions and complex predicates in Ossetic; the study will be put into the context of other Iranian languages and Caucasian languages. We will also study the structure and the form of clausal complements of the matrix verb ‘think’ based on the representative sample of the world's languages and compare the results with the existing generalizations about the realization of propositional arguments with the verbs of thought. 3) to analyze the interaction of communicative, prosodic and syntax-internal factors in Slavic and Germanic sentences with modal operators; 4) to examine the impact of information structure categories, and — in a broader perspective — the impact of the speech act parameters on the syntactic structure of the utterance. In this respect, two syntactic issues are of special interest: fragmentation in question-answer pairs and integration of vocatives into syntactic and semantic structure of the utterance. 5) to describe syntax of light verbs and serialization in two languages, Chukchi and Chuvash; investigating the information structure of various semantic types of serializations and revealing communicative factors influencing peculiar properties of corresponding constructions. 6) to create a parametric typology of endoclitics and to provide an account to the phenomenon of syntactic insertion into the morphological structure, which is supposedly operated by the mechanisms of syntactic-prosodical and morphological-syntactic interfaces.