Gradual Transition of Nominative and Accusative Cases of Nouns into Quantitative Adverbs: A Study of Word Forms ‘chudo’ [mir] by V. V. Shigurov, T. A. Shigurova

“…The article substantiates the idea that the degree of their convergence with quantitative adverbs is associated with different stages of proper grammatical (functional) and functional-semantic adverbialization. It is noted that the word form ‘chudo’ is capable of reaching only the stage of peripheral adverbials functioning in the semantic zone of the original substantive lexemes during functional adverbialization. …”
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Transposition of Substantive Word Forms into Adverbs of Interval: Stages, Signs, Limit by Victor V. Shigurov

“…This study presents the experience of calculating the differential features of substantive word forms that explicate in speech different degrees of functional and functional-semantic convergence with the class of adverbs of interval. …”
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