Phasal Polarity: Violated Expectations or Contrast?

Occupation: Junior Research Fellow
Affiliation: Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Science
Address: 1 Bld. 1 Bolshoy Kislovsky Lane, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Journal name

Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka

Edition

Volume 82 Issue 4

Pages

82-90

Abstract

In the present paper I make several observations on the semantics of Russian particle uzhe and alike. I suggest that contrastivity effect is central to its semantics. Crosslinguistically, such particles tend to develop into perfect markers in the course of grammaticalization process. I argue that it is exactly the presence of contrastive meaning in the semantics of such particles that favours this type of grammaticalization. The paper splits into two parts. The first part provides the semantic analysis of Russian particle uzhe. In the second part I show how the same type of analysis is applicable to the semantics of iamitive particles in the languages of the wold.

Keywords

grammatical semantics, phasal polarity, iamitive, perfect

Received

28.09.2023

Publication date

29.09.2023

Number of characters

23990

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GOST	Volkov O. Phasal Polarity: Violated Expectations or Contrast? // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2023. – V. 82. – Issue 4 C. 82-90 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S160578800027393-8-1 (circulation date: 20.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S160578800027393-8
MLA	Volkov, Oleg S "Phasal Polarity: Violated Expectations or Contrast?." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 82.4 (2023):82-90. DOI: 10.31857/S160578800027393-8
APA	Volkov O. (2023). Phasal Polarity: Violated Expectations or Contrast?. Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 82(4), pp.82-90 DOI: 10.31857/S160578800027393-8

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