Open AccessMeasure instrumental in Russian
Author(s) -
Assinja Demjjanow,
Anatoli Strigin
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.22.2001.102
Subject(s) - adverbial , measure (data warehouse) , instrumental variable , instrumental music , linguistics , semantics (computer science) , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , econometrics , art , literature , data mining , musical , programming language
We will argue that some seemingly adverbial free DPs in the instrumental in Russian which are traditionally termed measure instrumental are best understood as secondary predicates. We present the relevant syntactic assumptions and propose a semantics of this use of DPs in the instrumental. This proposal hears on the distinction between adjunct modification and secondary predication.