Mode of action nouns and their diatheses

• Autores: Elena V. Paducheva
• Localización: Proceedings [of the] Fourth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory [Recurso electrónico] / David Beck (ed. lit.), Kim Gerdes (ed. lit.), Jasmina Milicevic (ed. lit.), Alain Polguère (ed. lit.), 2009, ISBN 978-2-9811149-0-7, págs. 299-306
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Conceptual apparatus of "Meaning-Text" theory suggests a thoroughly elaborated classification of predicative nouns. This classification distinguishes nouns of action, nouns of subject, object and second object, nouns of instrument, place, and other circumstances, see Mel'cuk 1974: 87, Apresjan 1974: 48, 199. This paper deals with Russian mode of action nouns (such as pocerk "handwriting", poxodka "step"). It is demonstrated that when a mode of action noun is motivated by a transitive verb it has a special diathesis in which the subject can be expressed not by instrumental case, as usual, but by a possessive.