Open AccessSecondary predication in Russian
Author(s) -
Anatoli Strigin,
Assinja Demjjanow
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.25.2001.10
Subject(s) - resultative , phenomenon , interpretation (philosophy) , typology , linguistics , scope (computer science) , semantic interpretation , history , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , verb , archaeology , programming language
The paper makes two contributions to semantic typology of secondary predicates. It provides an explanation of the fact that Russian has no resultative secondary predicates, relating this explanation to the interpretation of secondary predicates in English. And it relates depictive secondary predicates in Russian, which usually occur in the instrumental case, to other uses of the instrumental case in Russian, establishing here, too, a difference to English concerning the scope of the secondary predication phenomenon.