dc.contributor.advisor | Nesset, Tore | |
dc.contributor.author | Nordrum, Maria | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-11T16:14:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-11T16:14:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-03-27 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation investigates Russian perfective verbs with a prefix and the semelfactive suffix -nu-, such as zaxlopnut’ ‘slam shut’, for the sake of simplicity referred to as “Pref-Nu verbs”. Pref-Nu verbs have received only marginal attention in the scholarly literature, and in the dissertation a main goal is therefore to shed light on their distribution and productivity in Contemporary Standard Russian, as well as the type of verb clusters and semantic classes they represent. A second main goal is to compare the behavior of Pref-Nu verbs with the behavior of perfective verbs that have only one of the two relevant affixes, i.e. only a prefix, such as zaxlopat’ ‘begin to slam’, or only the semelfactive suffix -nu , such as xlopnut’ ‘slam, clap, bang once’. All of these questions are explored with data from the Russian National Corpus (years 1950-2017), and, as a general tendency, Pref-Nu verbs are found to differ from the other two verb types in that they express a single “quantum” of an action that yields some result. The choice between Pref-Nu verbs and other perfectives is furthermore explored through an informant experiment that focuses on cases of near-synonymy between related verbs. The results of the experiment indicate that none of the verbs are fully synonymous, although their semantic differences are often subtle. | en_US |
dc.description.doctoraltype | ph.d. | en_US |
dc.description.popularabstract | This dissertation explores a group of verbs in Russian that is often overlooked in grammars and scholarly works, namely perfective verbs with a prefix and the semelfactive suffix -nu- (i.e. “Pref-Nu verbs”). Russian prefixes are known to add new content to verbs (e.g. s- can give the meaning ‘down’), and the semelfactive suffix -nu- is associated with the idea of a single, instantaneous instance of an activity. Examples of Pref-Nu verbs include sprygnut’ ‘jump down’ that has the prefix s-, and perelistnut’ ‘flip’ with the prefix pere-. Corpus data collected for the dissertation shows that Pref-Nu verbs form a relatively large group in Russian. The corpus data furthermore shed light on the semantic properties and behavior of Pref-Nu verbs compared to perfective verbs that have only a prefix or only the suffix -nu-. Special attention is given to cases like perelistnut’ ‘flip’ and perelistat’ ‘flip’ where a Pref-Nu verb appears to have the same or almost the same lexical meaning as a perfective verb of another type. The relationship between near-synonymous verbs of this kind shows that the choice between Pref-Nu and other perfectives follows certain tendencies and never is completely arbitrary, but at the same time not fully predictable from a single hypothesis. A psycholinguistic experiment yields further support to the complex relationship that exists between Pref-Nu and other types of perfectives in Russian. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | UiT The Arctic University of Norway | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/17718 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | UiT Norges arktiske universitet | en_US |
dc.publisher | UiT The Arctic University of Norway | en_US |
dc.relation.isbasedon | Nordrum, M. (2019). <i>Replication Data for: Together and apart: Perfective verbs with a prefix and the semelfactive suffix -nu- in Contemporary Standard Russian</i> (V1)[DataverseNO]. <p>https://doi.org/10.18710/PAKDS9 | en_US |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2020 The Author(s) | |
dc.subject.courseID | DOKTOR-001 | |
dc.subject | Russian | en_US |
dc.subject | aspect | en_US |
dc.subject | perfectives | en_US |
dc.subject | semelfactives | en_US |
dc.subject | linguistic rivalry | en_US |
dc.subject | corpus data | en_US |
dc.subject | experimental data | en_US |
dc.title | Together and apart. Perfective verbs with a prefix and the semelfactive suffix -nu- in Contemporary Standard Russian | en_US |
dc.type | Doctoral thesis | en_US |
dc.type | Doktorgradsavhandling | en_US |