Acknowledgments: The study was carried out at the Institute of Linguistics, without grant support. The author is indebted to Dmitry Dobrovolsky, Anna Zalizniak, Ilya Itkin, Tatyana Kovalevskaya, Vadim Lourie and two anonymous reviewers of the journal for their valuable comments to the first draft of the paper and for many illuminating clues. All errors and other shortcomings are the author’s.

 

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