Data di Pubblicazione:
2014
Citazione:
Sintagmi quantificatori ed espansioni post-nominali : considerazioni sulla concordanza / P.M. Cotta Ramusino (BIBLIOTECA DI STUDI SLAVISTICI). - In: Studi italiani di linguistica slava : strutture, uso e acquisizione / [a cura di] A. Bonola, P. Cotta Ramusino, L. Goletiani. - Prima edizione. - Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2014. - ISBN 9788866556558. - pp. 35-45
Abstract:
The paper focuses on case variation (Nominative plural vs Genitive plural) in postnominal
modifiers (participial and more rarely adjectival) of quantified phrases, such
as dve barži, poterpevšie [..] or tri neftjanych barži, svjazannye […] (see Worth 1959 and
Comrie 1993).
In this kind of construction several issues need to be taken into account: the role
of the adjective in indicating the plural, the role of the noun gender, which seems to
influence, to some extent, the choice of case, and finally the puzzling alternation of
Genitive and Nominative within the numeral phrase and within its expansion.
The working hypothesis of this paper is that, notwithstanding the strong (and
diachronically or transformationally explained) grammaticalization of patterns like this
one, more attention should be paid to speakers’ cognitive effort when using these constructions.
Research to date has been based on few empirical data and/or on artificial
examples; we assume that a data-driven investigation on large corpora of texts, with a
statistical description of the actual speakers’ use, may provide us with new insights into
the evolutionary trends of this construction: evidence from the Russian National Corpus
(ruscorpora.ru) for the time span 1900-2013, could support an innovative interpretation
by shedding more light on how speakers have managed to reduce the effort connected
with producing this interesting, albeit contradictory, morphosyntactic pattern.
Tipologia IRIS:
03 - Contributo in volume
Keywords:
lingua russa; morfosintassi; quantificatori; piccoli numerali; concordanza post nominale
Elenco autori:
P.M. Cotta Ramusino
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Titolo del libro:
Studi italiani di linguistica slava : strutture, uso e acquisizione