This thesis is a corpus-based, quantitative, and typological analysis of the
functions of Early Slavic participle constructions and their finite competitors
($jegda$-'when'-clauses). The first part leverages detailed linguistic
annotation on Early Slavic corpora at the morphosyntactic, dependency,
information-structural, and lexical levels to obtain indirect evidence for
different potential functions of participle clauses and their main finite
competitor and understand the roles of compositionality and default discourse
reasoning as explanations for the distribution of participle constructions and
$jegda$-clauses in the corpus. The second part uses massively parallel data to
analyze typological variation in how languages express the semantic space of
English $when$, whose scope encompasses that of Early Slavic participle
constructions and $jegda$-clauses. Probabilistic semantic maps are generated
and statistical methods (including Kriging, Gaussian Mixture Modelling,
precision and recall analysis) are used to induce cross-linguistically salient
dimensions from the parallel corpus and to study conceptual variation within
the semantic space of the hypothetical concept WHEN.

这篇论文是关于早期斯拉夫分词结构及其限定性竞争对手（$jegda$-'when'-clauses）的基于语料库的定量和类型学分析。第一部分借助对早期斯拉夫语料库进行详细的语言学注释，从词法句法、依赖关系、信息结构和词汇层面间接证据来获得分词子句和其主要限定性竞争对手的不同潜在功能并理解构成性和默认话语推理在语料库中分词结构和 $jegda$-clauses 分布的解释。第二部分利用大规模平行数据分析语言间表达英语 when 语义空间的类型学变异，其中包括早期斯拉夫分词结构和 $jegda$-clauses。通过生成概率性语义地图，并使用统计方法（包括克里金插值法、高斯混合建模、精确度和召回率分析），从平行语料库中归纳出跨语言中显著的维度，并研究该概念 WHEN 语义空间内的概念变异。