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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">30642</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-26828</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">A very unpredictable ‘person’: A corpus-based approach to suppletion in West Polesian</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Непредсказуемый «человек»: корпусное исследование супплетивности в западнополесских говорах</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Roncero</surname><given-names>Kristian</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Ронсеро</surname><given-names>Кристиан</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">постдокторант</bio><email>kristianroncero@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт эволюционной антропологии им. Макса Планка</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Friedrich Schiller Universität</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Фридриха Шиллера</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-03-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 26, NO1 (2022)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 26, №1 (2022)</issue-title><fpage>116</fpage><lpage>138</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-03-30"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Roncero K.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Ронсеро К.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2022, Roncero K.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Roncero K.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Ронсеро К.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Roncero K.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/30642">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/30642</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">In Slavic languages, as in many other languages, the noun for ‘person’ has a suppletive paradigm. Yet, as this study shows, in West Polesian (East Slavic) the noun ‘person’ is a typological outlier not only within Slavic but also cross-linguistically because it combines three stems with a very complex distribution. This paper looks for any regularities in the distribution of these suppletive stems, their cognates among other Slavic languages and how speakers use them in free texts. This survey provides novel insights into suppletion. First, suppletion involving more than two stems is typologically uncommon but the West Polesian noun ‘person’ combines three. Second, against any expectation of regularity for the sake of learnability, free-text data show that speakers do not distribute the stems homogeneously. Third, notwithstanding the diglossic situation in Western Polesie, the inter- and intra-speaker variation in the choice of stem does not seem particularly conditioned by sociolinguistic variables such as gender, age or social class. In sum, this corpus survey of the suppletive stems of ‘person’ in West Polesian and Slavic illustrates a rare case in morphological typology where there is a three-stem suppletion combined with overabundance and a vast amount of variation across speakers.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">В славянских языках, как и во многих других, существительное, обозначающее «человек», имеет супплетивную парадигму. Однако, как показывает данное исследование, в западнополесских (восточно-славянских) говорах существительное «человек» типологически аномально не только для славянских, но для других языков, так как представляет собой комбинацию трех основ с очень сложной дистрибуцией. В статье рассматривается дистрибуция этих супплетивных основ, родственные им слова в других славянских языках и их использование носителями в произвольных текстах. Это исследование предлагает новый взгляд на супплетивность. Во-первых, супплетивность, включающая более двух основ, нетипична, но в западнополесском существительном «человек», используются три основы. Во-вторых, вопреки ожиданиям, данные произвольных текстов показывают, что говорящие не распределяют основы равномерно. В-третьих, несмотря на ситуацию диглоссии в Западном Полесье, внутри- и межличностные вариации в выборе основ не особо зависят от социолингвистических переменных, таких как гендер, возраст или социальный класс. В целом, это корпусное исследование супплетивных основ существительного, обозначающего человека в западнополесском и славянских языках, иллюстрирует редкий случай морфологической типологии, где присутствует трехоснόвная супплетивность вкупе с избыточностью и высоким уровнем вариативности среди носителей языка.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>corpus</kwd><kwd>field-data</kwd><kwd>overabundance</kwd><kwd>Slavic</kwd><kwd>suppletion</kwd><kwd>variation</kwd><kwd>West Polesian</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>корпус</kwd><kwd>данные полевых исследований</kwd><kwd>избыточность</kwd><kwd>славянские языки</kwd><kwd>супплетивность</kwd><kwd>вариация</kwd><kwd>западнополесские говоры</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Akiner, Shirin. 1983. The Syntax of the numeral in Byelorussian, compared with Ukrainian, Russian and Polish. 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