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Режиссер в отсутствие актеров од абсолютивном употреблении глагола
Director without Actors: on Absolutive (Argumentless) Use of the Verb

Author(s): Boris Yustinivich Norman
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Slovanský ústav and Euroslavica
Keywords: verb; verb taxonomy; valency structure; lexicographic representation; ellipsis;

Summary/Abstract: The paper treats a possibility of verbal use without obligatory syntactic environment (arguments), including in particular right valency. Four special speech situations are defined, in which the verb loses its organizing function. These are: a dictionary article, a generalizing context, one-phrase texts with general-reference sense and coordinative word-combination. Examples from Russian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech and Slovak are given.

  • Issue Year: LXXXIII/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 166-178
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian