Measurement-contents constructions in Russian
- Autores: Olga Jurievna Podlesskaja
- Localización: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory [Recurso electrónico]: Barcelona, September 8-9, 2011 / Igor Boguslavsky (ed. lit.), Leo Wanner (ed. lit.), 2011, ISBN 978-84-615-1, págs. 217-224
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper is dealing with a special subclass of Russian prepositional idiomatic constructions for naïve measurement with preposition v and a noun in accusative case - dom v tri etaža "a house three storeys high", sinjak v pol-lica "a black eye as big as half of the face", kover vo vsju stenu "a carpet as big as a whole wall". They are semantically different depending on the participants of the construction (numerals, ves' "whole" and pol- "half") such as what is being measured, the object or the part of the object and what is being used as a measure. The construction with numeral may also be called contents construction. It is shown that this type is easily paraphrased in construction with an attribute. Also it turns out that constructions with modifiers ves' "whole" and pol- "half" despite their inner semantic differences have the same meaning of big size or high degree. Some semantic and syntactic peculiarities of these constructions are described.
