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(The Witty Russian Preposition s)
(The Witty Russian Preposition s)
Author(s) -
Lennart Lönngren
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
poljarnyj vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1890-9671
pISSN - 1500-7502
DOI - 10.7557/6.1334
Subject(s) - predicate (mathematical logic) , linguistics , meaning (existential) , phrase , pun , philosophy , computer science , epistemology , programming language
The Russian preposition s (with the instrumental case) exhibits an am- biguity which makes it apt for being used in puns and anecdotes. In cer- tain contexts it oscillates between a more semantic function (comitative meaning in a broad sense) and a more syntactic. In the latter case it forms a preposition phrase which fills an actant position of another predicate