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dc.contributor.authorPost, Margje
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-03T10:33:23Z
dc.date.available2009-06-03T10:33:23Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.description.abstractThe word dak is one of several highly frequent particles, used in most Northern Russian and some Siberian dialects. It can occur sentence initially, sentence internally and sentence finally to connect two parts of the discourse, such as words, sentences, and presuppositions. This article describes the advantages and shortcomings of six different perspectives which have been used to describe this unspecified, multifunctional word: descriptions in traditional grammatical terms, in syntactic terminology used for spontaneÓus speech, research on its role in information structure, its use in discourse, the role of prosody, and finally comparisons with parallel words in neighbouring and other languages. I conclude that a combination of approaches is required for a better understanding of the way dak functions. Studies in prosody combined with research on dak's role in information structure appear to be most fruitful, and modern theories of discourse structure, which are almost completely ignored at present, could be helpful. Much research remains to be done, especially to clarify the restrictions on the use of the word dak and the way it functions in less obvious contexts.en
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dc.identifier.citationPoljarnyj Vestnik 6(2002) s. 29-45en
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 110547
dc.identifier.issn1500-7502
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/1874
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_1634
dc.language.isorusen
dc.publisherRussisk institutten
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028en
dc.title.alternativeAdvantages and Shortcomings of Different Perspectives in Describing Northern Russian DAKen
dc.titleProblemy izucenija severnorusskogo slova DAK: dostizenija i nedostatkien
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen


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