Information Structure and the Status of Np in Russian

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ID20365113
AuthorsDina Brun (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume27
Issue2-3
Publication date2001-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheoretical Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0301-4428 • E-ISSN: 1613-4060
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/thli.2001.27.2-3.109
OpenAlexW2075123648
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In his 1995 monograph, Apresyan suggests that it would be extremely interesting to investigate the means of expressing the definiteness/indefiniteness opposition in languages that do not have articles. In this paper, I will attempt to find possible correlations between the organization of discourse and the positions in which the (in)definite nominals may appear within a sentence of Russian. I will examine the information structure of Russian sentences and, based on the previous analyses, provide a new account of their organization with respect to information packaging. I will then look at various nominal elements contained in certain parts of a sentence and arrive at a system describing the distribution of NPs in Russian with respect to the information structure. The ultimate goal of this paper is to establish and motivate a system of correlations between various types of NPs and functions of information structure. This goal will be achieved by determining which characteristic of a NP may serve as a criterion allowing to provide a one-to-one mapping.

Definiteness · Information Structure · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Political science · Sentence · Computer Science · Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence

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