Locative insertion, definiteness, and free word order in Russian

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dc.contributor.authorMezhevich, Ilana
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-24T19:33:39Z
dc.date.available2016-06-24T19:33:39Z
dc.date.issued2001-05
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I examine Russian data in terms of definiteness versus indefiniteness and locative inversion. The latter is investigated in Bresnan (1994). She presents an analysis of locative inversion in English and Chichewa and discusses the restrictions on locative inversion in these languages. In particular, she shows that, in English, locative inversion is permitted with many intransitive verbs and passivized transitive verbs (taking into account the by-phrase restriction), but is disallowed with transitive verbs. This generalization applies to Russian verbs as well. The notion of definiteness, however, requires clarification. As a starting point I adopt the definition proposed by Kramsky (1972:30): "By the term "determinedness" we understand the fact that nouns are classified according to whether the content expressed by the noun is clear and identifiable in a concrete way or not". This definition is vague and, therefore not very helpful. In the course of this paper, I will attempt to achieve a more precise formulation of definiteness.en_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationMezhevich, I. (2001). Locative insertion, definiteness, and free word order in Russian. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 23(Spring), 30-48.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28964
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51449
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectRussian languageen_US
dc.subjectSyntaxen_US
dc.subjectDefinitenessen_US
dc.subjectGrammar, Comparative and general--Locative constructions
dc.titleLocative insertion, definiteness, and free word order in Russianen_US
dc.typejournal article
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