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Authored Books

Nikolaeva, Irina (2020) Yukaghir morphology in a historical and comparative perspective. München: Lincom. (LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 92)

Nikolaeva, Irina and Spencer, Andrew (2019) Mixed categories: The Morphosyntax of noun modification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

Nikolaeva, Irina (2014) A grammar of Tundra Nenets. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL], 65)

Ackerman, Farrell and Nikolaeva, Irina (2013) Descriptive typology and linguistics theory: a study in the morphosyntax of relative clauses. Stanford: CSLI.

Dalrymple, Mary and Nikolaeva, Irina (2011) Objects and information structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge studies in linguistics, 131)

Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC], 25)

Nikolaeva, Irina, Perekhvalskaya, Elena and Tolskaya, Maria (2003) Udeghe (Udihe) texts. Osaka, Japan: ELPR. (Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim (Series), A2-025)

Nikolaeva, Irina, Perekhvalskaya, Elena and Tolskaya, Maria (2002) Udeghe (Udihe) folk tales. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Tunguso-Sibirica 10)

Nikolaeva, Irina and Tolskaya, Maria (2001) A Grammar of Udihe. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL], 22)

Nikolaeva, Irina (2000) Chrestomathia Jucagirica. Budapest: ELTE. (Uralisztikai tanulmányok, 10)

Nikolaeva, Irina (1999) Ostyak. Muenchen; Newcastle: Lincom. (Languages of the world. Materials ; 305)

Nikolaeva, Irina (1999) Ostyak texts in the Obdorsk dialect. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Studia uralica, Bd. 9)

Nikolaeva, Irina (1997) Yukaghir texts. Savariae: Berxsenyi Dániel Tanárképzö föiskola. (Specimina Sibirica, t. 13.)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Barany, Andras, Bond, Oliver and Nikolaeva, Irina, eds. (2019) Prominent Internal Possessors. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Nikolaeva, Irina, ed. (2018) Linguistic Typology. Critic Concepts in Linguistics. Abingdon: Routledge. (Critical Concepts in Linguistics)

Nikolaeva, Irina and Spencer, Andrew, eds. (2008) Editorial. Morphosyntactic mismatches and mixed categories. Amsterdam: Elsevier. (Special issue of Lingua. Vol 118 No. 4)

Nikolaeva, Irina, ed. (2007) Finiteness: Theoretical and empirical foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Nikolaeva, Irina (2024) 'Vowel Harmony in Yukaghir.' In: van der Hulst, Harry and Ritter, Nancy A., (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 832-839.

Nikolaeva, Irina and Barany, Andras (2019) 'Proximate Possessors.' In: Barany, Andras, Bond, Oliver and Nikolaeva, Irina, (eds.), Prominent Internal Possessors. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 228-258.

Nikolaeva, Irina, Barany, Andras and Bond, Oliver (2019) 'Towards a typology of prominent internal possessors.' In: Barany, Andras, Bond, Oliver and Nikolaeva, Irina, (eds.), Prominent Internal Possessors. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-38.

Yadava, Yogendra, Bond, Oliver, Nikolaeva, Irina and Ritchie, Thomas Alexander France (2019) 'The syntax of possessor prominence in Maithili.' In: Barany, Andras, Bond, Oliver and Nikolaeva, Irina, (eds.), Prominent Internal Possessors. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 39-79.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2019) 'Focus as a morphosyntactic and morphosemantic feature.' In: Baerman, Matthew, Bond, Oliver and Hippisley, Andrew, (eds.), Morphological Perspectives. Papers in Honour of Greville G. Corbett. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 370-389.

Matić, Dejan and Nikolaeva, Irina (2018) 'From polarity focus to salient polarity: From things to processes.' In: Dimroth, Christine and Sudhoff, Stefan, (eds.), The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 9-54. (Linguistics Today)

Nikolaeva, Irina and Ode, Cecilia (2018) 'The Lord’s Prayer in Yukagir.' In: Naarden, Bruno, (ed.), The fascination with inner Eurasian languages in the 17th century. Amsterdam: Pegasus.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2017) 'The general noun-modifying clause construction in Tundra Nenets and its possible origin.' In: Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Comrie, Bernard and Sells, Peter, (eds.), Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Reshaping theoretical and geographical boundaries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 147-178. (Typological Studies in Language)

Nikolaeva, Irina (2016) 'Analyses of the semantics of mood.' In: Nuyts, Jan and van der Auwera, Johan, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 68-85.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2015) 'Reference grammars.' In: Kiss, Tibor and Alexiadou, Artemis, (eds.), Syntax - Theory and Analysis: an International Handbook. Vol. 3. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 2036-2062.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2014) 'The Narrative Infinitive Construction in French and Latin.' In: Boas, Hans and Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, (eds.), Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 139-179.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2014) 'Altaic.' In: Lieber, Rochelle and Stekauer, Pavol, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 493-508.

Nikolaeva, Irina and Spencer, Andrew (2013) 'Possession and modification – a perspective from Canonical Typology.' In: Brown, Dunstan, Chumakina, Marina and Corbett, Greville, (eds.), Canonical Morphology and Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 207-238.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2012) 'Unpacking finiteness.' In: Corbett, Greville, Brown, Dunstan and Chumakina, Marina, (eds.), Canonical morphology and syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2012) 'Nominal modification in Udihe and beyond.' In: Malchukov, Andrej and Whaley, Lindsey, (eds.), Recent advances in Tungusic linguistics. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2012) 'Periphrasis in Tundra Nenets.' In: Chumakina, Marina and Corbett, Greville, (eds.), Periphrasis: the role of syntax and morphology int he paradigms. Oxford: British Academy and Oxford University Press. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 180)

Nikolaeva, Irina (2009) 'Chuvan and Omok languages?' In: Lubotsky, Alexander, (ed.), Evidence and Counter-Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt. General linguistics. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, pp. 313-336.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2007) 'Constructional Economy and Nonfinite Independent Clauses.' In: Nikolaeva, Irina, (ed.), Finiteness. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 138-80.

Sells, Peter (2007) 'Finiteness in Non-Transformational Syntactic Frameworks.' In: Nikolaeva, Irina, (ed.), Finiteness. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 59-88.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2007) 'Recipriocals and sociatives in Udehe.' In: Nedjalkov, Vladimir P., (ed.), Reciprocal constructions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 933-968.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2005) 'Agreement and situation construal.' In: Fernandez-Vest, J.M., (ed.), Les langues ouraliennes aujourd'hui : approche linguistique et cognitive = The Uralic languages today : a linguistic and cognitive approach. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, Editeur.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2005) 'Modifier-Head Person Concord.' In: Booij, G. et al., (ed.), Morphology and Linguistic Typology. Proceedings of the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM4) Catania, 21-23 September 2003. Bologna: Università degli Studi di Bologna, pp. 221-234.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2003) 'The structure of the Tundra Nenets noun phrase.' In: Bakró-Nagy, Marianne and Rédei, Karoly, (eds.), Ünnepi kötet Honti László tiszteletére. Budapest: Magyar Tudomanyos Academia, pp. 315-327.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2002) 'The Hungarian external possessor in a European perspective.' In: Hasselblatt, C. and Blokland, R., (eds.), Finno-Ugrians and Indo-Europeans: Linguistic and Literary Contacts. Proceedings of the Symposium at the University of Groningen, November 22-24, 2001. Maastricht: Shaker.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2002) 'Possession vs. nominal attribution in Uralic.' In: Helimski, Eugen and Widmer, Anna, (eds.), Wŭśa wŭśa – Sei gegrüsst! Beiträge zur Finnougristik zu Ehren von Gert Sauer dargebracht zu seinem siebzigsten Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 239-250. (Veröffentlichungen des Societas Uralo-Altaica, 57)

Nikolaeva, Irina (2001) 'A typology of secondary topic constructions.' In: Kibrik, Alexandr, (ed.), Lingvisticheskij bespredel. Moscow: MGU, pp. 274-288.

Journal Article

Matić, Dejan and Nikolaeva, Irina (2024) 'Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region.' Journal of Language Contact, 17 (1). pp. 11-69.

Barany, Andras and Nikolaeva, Irina (2021) 'On adjoined possessors.' Linguistic Inquiry, 52 (1). pp. 181-194.

Barany, Andras and Nikolaeva, Irina (2020) 'Possessive and non-identity relations in Turkic switch-reference.' Studies in Language, 44 (3). pp. 606-658.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2020) 'Constructional analogy and reanalysis in possessive applicatives.' Glossa, 5 (1). p. 80.

Barany, Andras and Nikolaeva, Irina (2019) 'Possessors in switch-reference.' Glossa, 48 (1).

Spencer, Andrew and Nikolaeva, Irina (2017) 'Denominal adjectives as mixed categories.' Word Structure, 10 (1). pp. 79-99.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2015) 'On the expression of TAM on nouns: evidence from Tundra Nenets.' Lingua, 166. pp. 99-126.

Matić, Dejan and Nikolaeva, Irina (2014) 'Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir.' Lingua, 150. pp. 202-231.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2010) 'Finiteness in typology.' Language and Linguistics Compass, 3 (1). pp. 1176-1189.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2008) 'Between nouns and adjectives: a constructional view.' Lingua, 118 (7). pp. 969-996.

Iida, Masayo and Sells, Peter (2008) 'Mismatches between Morphology and Syntax in Japanese Complex Predicates.' Lingua, 118 (7). pp. 947-968.

Nikolaeva, Irina and Dalrymple, Mary (2006) 'Syntax of Natural and Accidental Coordination: Evidence from Agreement.' Language, 82 (4). pp. 824-49.

Dalrymple, Mary and Nikolaeva, Irina (2005) 'Nonsubject agreement and discourse roles.' Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, 10. pp. 73-94.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2001) 'Secondary topic as a relation in information structure.' Linguistics, 39 (1). pp. 1-49.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2000) 'The status of schwa in the phonological description of Northern Ostyak.' Finnisch-ugrische Mitteilungen, 23. pp. 121-148.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2000) 'The vocalic system of Udihe.' Eurasian Studies Yearbook, 72. pp. 113-142.

Nikolaeva, Irina (1999) 'Object agreement, grammatical relations, and information structure.' Studies in Language, 23 (2). pp. 331-376.

Nikolaeva, Irina (1999) 'The semantics of Northern Khanty Evidentials.' Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 88. pp. 131-159.

Nikolaeva, Irina (1998) 'Optimal syllables are not always optimal: A prosodic structure of Yukaghir.' Lingua, 105 (3). pp. 201-229.

Nikolaeva, Irina, Kovgan, Elena and Koshkareva, Natalia (1993) 'Communicative roles in Ostyak syntax.' Finnisch Ugrischen Forschungen, 30. pp. 125-167.

Nikolaeva, Irina, Zhukova, Ljudmila and Demina, Ljubov (1993) 'Les Yukaghirs.' Etudes mongoles et sibériennes, 24. pp. 175-190.

Nikolaeva, Irina (1992) 'Old Yukaghir sources and dialects.' Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, 11. pp. 200-210.

Book Reviews

Nikolaeva, Irina (2005) '[review article of:] Elena Maslova "A grammar of Kolyma Yukaghir".' Linguistic Typology, 9 (2). 299 -325.

Audios

Nikolaeva, Irina and Garrett, Edward (2015) The endangered languages and cultures of Siberia. Surrey Morphology Group. [Audio]

Nikolaeva, Irina and Garrett, Edward (2014) Online documentation of Siberian languages. Surrey Morphology Group. [Audio]

Other

Matić, Dejan and Nikolaeva, Irina (2014) 'Focus feature percolation: Evidence from Tundra Nenets and Tundra Yukaghir.' In: Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. CSLI online publication. pp. 299-317.

Merin, Arthur and Nikolaeva, Irina (2008) 'Exclamative as a Universal Speech Act Category: a case study in Decision-Theoretic Semantics and typological implications.' Online Semantics Archive: