The Evolution of the System of Long and Short Adjectives in Old Russian

The present study is a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the system of long and short adjectives in Old Russian, a profound language change to which very little previous research has been devoted. It is generally assumed that in prehistoric Slavic, the system was purely grammatical with the...

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Autor principal: Larsen, Karin (auth)
Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
Publicado em: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2005
Colecção:Slavistische Beitraege 439
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Resumo:The present study is a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the system of long and short adjectives in Old Russian, a profound language change to which very little previous research has been devoted. It is generally assumed that in prehistoric Slavic, the system was purely grammatical with the long form denoting definiteness and the short form denoting indefiniteness. The present study finds, on the basis of evidence collected from Old Russian chronicle texts, that even the earliest of these sources display a substantially transformed system no longer reflecting the opposition between definiteness and indefiniteness, but governed by parameters of information structure.
Descrição Física:1 electronic resource (283 p.)
ISBN:b12720
9783954796304
Acesso:Open Access