Publié: 2023-12-29

Russian Free Phrasal Indefinite Pronouns

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Résumé

The paper describes Russian phrasal indefinite pronouns: both 1) phraseologized (= collocational), such as koe-kto ≈ ‘someone’, Bog znaet kto ‘God knows who’, kto ugodno ‘whoever’ or kto by to ni bylo ‘no matter who’, and 2) free, such as {Ja vstretil} nikto iz tvoix druzej ne dogadaetsja kogo ‘{I met} none of your friends will guess whom’ (a.k.a. syntactic amalgams). Three lexical entries are presented: for the indefinite pronominal lexeme kto1 ≈ ‘-body; -one’, for the premodifying indefi­niteness type marker idiom ˹Bog znaet˺ ‘God knows’, and for the postmodifying indefiniteness type marker particle -to4 ≈ ‘some’. Formal representations of collocational and free phrasal indefi­nite pronouns at three levels of linguistic representation (semantic, deep-syntactic and surface-syntactic) are given, as well as rules for constructing both types of pronouns.

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Mel'čuk, I. (2023). Russian Free Phrasal Indefinite Pronouns. Neophilologica, 35, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.31261/NEO.2023.35.13

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Vol. 35 (2023)
Publié: 2024-05-14


ISSN: 0208-5550
eISSN: 2353-088X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/NEO

Éditeur
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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