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Anastasiia PanovaPhD student

About me

The goal of my PhD project is to investigate the morphosyntax of Gawarbati (Indo-Aryan), an under-described language spoken in the border area of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The data for the thesis come from the corpus of Gawarbati texts which are being collected and annotated within the project "Gawarbati: Documenting a vulnerable linguistic community in the Hindu Kush". My supervisors are Henrik Liljegren and Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm.

About my name

My first name is Anastasia (or Nastia, if you wish to be more informal). However, in my passport it is spelled Anastasiia due to Russian transliteration rules.

Research projects

Publications

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

  • The Continuative Cycle

    2025. Luba Nikolova Vesselinova, Anastasia Panova. Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse, 126-154

    Chapter

    This chapter outlines the evolution of continuative (still) expressions and ultimately highlights a hitherto less discussed cyclical process, the Continuative Cycle (CC). Three genealogical groupings of different size and time depth (Germanic, Slavic, and Austronesian) provide the data for this work. Two pathways of the CC occur commonly: CC via replacement whereby the erstwhile still expression is superseded by a new one and CC via reinforcement, reminiscent of doubling à la the Jespersen Cycle in that an old still expression no longer encodes this sense on its own, but rather has to be used together with another word. In addition, renewal of still expressions may occur via specification of a general continuative that was previously underspecified for polarity. The multifunctionality of older still expressions and their interaction with negation bear significantly on their renewal. The recurrence of the CC in many unrelated languages suggests that the continuative is a cognitively stable function.

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