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dc.contributor.authorMakarova, Anastasia
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-05T12:04:18Z
dc.date.available2013-12-05T12:04:18Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractIn this article I investigate part of speech distinctions in Russian based on an in-depth analysis of an understudied group of words, namely bain’ki ‘sleep’, spaten’ki ‘sleep’, kušan’ki ‘eat’ and gulen’ki ‘walk’, which are mainly used in speech with or about children, but which regardless of their high frequency and productivity remain ignored in Russian linguistics. The main question is: what part of speech do these words belong to? Are they verbs or nouns? Based on careful investigation of these words’ morphological, syntactic and semantic properties, it is argued that they are both verbs and nouns. However, they are not prototypical members of either category in the sense of cognitive linguistics. Although this paper considers a small number of words, the proposed analysis has implications for word-class distinctions in Russian as a whole, and I suggest that parts of speech are radial categories organized around prototypes.en
dc.identifier.citationZeitschrift für Slawistik 57(2012) nr. 3 s. 330-350en
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 944027
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1524/slaw.2012.0023
dc.identifier.issn0044-3506
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/5579
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_5280
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherDe Gruyteren
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028en
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Russisk språk: 028en
dc.titleNouns or verbs? A case study of the Russian words bain’ki, kušan’ki, spaten’ki and gulen’kien
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen
dc.typePeer revieweden


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