Open AccessSubjunctive in Russian relative clauses
Author(s) -
Nina Dobrushina
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
oslo studies in language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1890-9639
DOI - 10.5617/osla.124
Subject(s) - interrogative , relative clause , predicate (mathematical logic) , linguistics , sentence , noun , polarity (international relations) , computer science , natural language processing , dependent clause , artificial intelligence , philosophy , chemistry , biochemistry , cell , programming language
The paper aims at determining the factors that trigger the choice of subjunctive in relative clauses, where it freely alternates with indicative forms. The factors are established on a basis of frequency of occurrence in Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru) and include the referential status of the noun heading the relative clause, the polarity, semantic type and epistemic status of the main predicate and the affirmative vs. interrogative status of the whole sentence.