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dc.contributor.advisorNesset, Tore
dc.contributor.authorNordrum, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-18T12:38:14Z
dc.date.available2015-08-18T12:38:14Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-19
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores prefix variation in one Russian verb, путать. As a simplex verb that uses four prefixes to form Natural Perfectives (с-, пере-, за- and в-), путать is a good example of a verb with extensive prefix variation. The thesis consists of three separate, yet related corpus-based case studies. In my first case study, I examine the constructions and internal arguments of the Natural Perfectives of the verb. Can the choice of prefix be predicted from these two factors? My findings for путать suggest that they can. My second case study examines the four aspectual relations of путать. Are the four Natural Perfectives of the verb Natural Perfectives to the same degree? Using Julia Kuznetsova’s method for measuring the strength of aspectual relations (Kuznetsova 2012), I argue that the four Natural Perfectives are Natural Perfectives to different degrees and that this, in turn, shows that Natural Perfectives constitute a radial category with much inner diversity. My third case study explores the Primary and Secondary Imperfective in the four “путать-triplets”. I show that путать and the Secondary Imperfectives are not synonymous. They have different prototypical constructions and differ in terms of telicity. I also suggest that the distribution of the two imperfective verbs in a triplet may be affected by aspectual strength.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/7947
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_7531
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2015 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDRUS-3910en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010en_US
dc.titleDisentangling путать. An empirical analysis of one verb with prefix variationen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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