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+2025,3,18,"Eva Poliakova (HSE University)","Field notes on Khwarshi: the biabsolutive construction and information structure","This talk will be dedicated to two topics which were the focus of my research during a field trip to the Khwarshi language (Nakh-Daghestanian) that took place in January of this year. Therefore, the talk will be divided into two parts.
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+First, I will discuss the biabsolutive construction in Khwarshi. In this construction both arguments of a transitive verb are marked by the absolutive case, and the verb form is restricted to (periphrastic) progressive. I will discuss some of its properties, including ones that were not discussed before (e.g. its behavior in an embedded clause). I will also show that some speakers allow forming an absolutive construction not only with a progressive form, but also with a resultative one, though in this case some additional restrictions seem to hold.
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+Second, I will discuss some findings about information structure in Khwarshi. This topic was investigated mostly based on question-answer tasks and tasks involving picture description. I will show that different word orders can be used to mark focus in Khwarshi, including insertion of the focused constituent inside a periphrastic verb form and inversion of lexical verb and auxiliary."
 2025,3,11,"Masha Volina (HSE University)","Demonstrative Pronouns in Khwarshi","The Khwarshi language (Nakh-Daghestanian) has a rich system of demonstrative pronouns. Three series of demonstratives can be distinguished: žu — idu, o-CL-žu — a-CL-du and hobo-žu — hobo-du. Each series includes proximal and distal pronouns (which can be used both attributively and substantively), a demonstrative adjective with a meaning close to such and several adverbs. Pronouns from all three series can function deictically and anaphorically, although there is a 'primarily anaphoric' series žu — idu and a 'primarily deictic' series o-CL-žu — a-CL-du. Also, the paradigmatic structure of the Khwarshi demonstrative system is quite complex.
  
 In this talk, mainly based on my fieldwork data, I will describe the morphological structure of Khwarshi demonstratives, and the syntactic differences in their usage (mostly outlined in 'A language for Guinness World Records: Fifteen (or more?) reflexive pronouns in Khwarshi' by Yakov Testelets). I will also briefly discuss spatial and discursive factors that influence the choice of a deictic, as well as my hypotheses regarding the differences in their semantics and, accordingly, their functions."