Liudmila Radchankava

Liudmila Radchankava is a linguist with a background in General Linguistics, Romance and Slavic Studies. She studied and worked at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where she also contributed to the DFG-funded research project “TriMCo” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Björn Wiemer. In September 2024, she defended her PhD dissertation titled From Emergence to Establishment of Complex Prepositions: A Token-Based Semantic Map Approach (with data from Russian, Spanish, and German). Her research focuses on diachronic semantics, complex adpositions, semantic maps, and information structure.

Die thematisch-fokussierende komplexe Präposition v lice. Eine diachrone Analyse mithilfe von BERT

Тематично фокусираният сложен предлог „в лице“. Диахронен анализ с помощта на BERT

  • Summary/Abstract

    This article examines complex prepositions in Russian using the construction v lice as a case study. This denominal complex preposition, consisting of the primary preposition v and a noun, exemplifies the dynamic transitional processes between word classes. The central focus of the analysis is the question of which semantic properties are associated with the degree of establishment of such constructions. The article adopts both a synchronic and diachronic perspective, with particular attention to developments since the 19th century, during which complex prepositions increasingly entered scientific, technical, and journalistic writing styles. Using corpus-based methods and embedding- based techniques (BERT), the study reconstructs semantic shifts and identifies functional- semantic changes. In doing so, it contributes to the description of the internal dynamics of complex prepositions in Russian.

    Subject: e-Scripta

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