Russian adjective pronoun vsjakij: semantics and idiomatics

Affiliation:
Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Informatics Problems of the Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Pushkin State Russian Language Institute
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Elena V. Paducheva

Affiliation:
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Voprosy Jazykoznanija

Edition

Issue 1

Pages

7-26

Abstract

The word vsjakij, as well as ljuboj, každyj and vse, includes in its meaning the logical operator “universal quantiﬁer”; sentences with these words have a logical structure (х) Р(х). Yet the linguistic properties of all these words are signiﬁcantly different. The article discusses current and diachronic semantics of the word vsjakij, as well as the semantics of the phraseological units of which it is part. The paper demonstrates that the use of the idiomatic unit vo vsjakom slučae in modern Russian is characterized by the coexistence of the “old” and “new” norms and should be described using the “bisynchronic method” proposed by P. Garde. We observe a particular meaning of vo vsjakom slučae, that of a marker of non-evidentiality, indicating a lowering of the epistemic status of the previous statement from fact to a plausible hypothesis. We also describe the mechanisms of semantic derivation in the ﬁeld of pronouns whose meaning includes the idea of choice.

Keywords

adjective pronouns, bisynchronic method, idiomatization, quantiﬁers, Russian, semantic derivation, semantics

Acknowledgment

The paper was written with ﬁnancial support of RFBR, grant No. 17-04-00554 (section 1) and Russian Science Foundation, grant No. 18-18-00462 (sections 2–3). We are grateful to the reviewers for their comments.

Publication date

02.03.2020

Number of characters

55489

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GOST	Zalizniak A., Paducheva E. Russian adjective pronoun vsjakij: semantics and idiomatics // Voprosy Jazykoznanija – 2020. – Issue 1 C. 7-26 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/vopjaz/s0373658x0008264-9-1-en (circulation date: 28.11.2023). DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0008264-9
MLA	Zalizniak, Anna, Paducheva, Elena V "Russian adjective pronoun vsjakij: semantics and idiomatics." Voprosy Jazykoznanija 1 (2020):7-26. DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0008264-9
APA	Zalizniak A., Paducheva E. (2020). Russian adjective pronoun vsjakij: semantics and idiomatics. Voprosy Jazykoznanija (1), pp.7-26 DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0008264-9

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