Corrective Contrast in Russian, in Contrast
In many languages markers of contrast, such as the English 'but', are also used to express correction: John didn't go to Paris, but to Berlin. The present paper tries to explain this cross-linguistic pattern and represents correction as a special case of contrast. It focuses on...
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doaj-11efc3e9a10b4f96839d2c3038cd53072020-11-25T03:40:16ZengUniversity of OsloOslo Studies in Language1890-96392010-12-012210.5617/osla.85Corrective Contrast in Russian, in ContrastKatja Jasinskaja0University of HeidelbergIn many languages markers of contrast, such as the English 'but', are also used to express correction: John didn't go to Paris, but to Berlin. The present paper tries to explain this cross-linguistic pattern and represents correction as a special case of contrast. It focuses on the Russian contrastive conjunction 'a' and argues that its corrective uses in combination with negation 'ne ... a' / 'a ne', which are traditionally viewed as a fixed collocation, are in fact co-occurrences of a general contrastive 'a' with constituent negation.https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/85 |
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Corrective Contrast in Russian, in Contrast |
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In many languages markers of contrast, such as the English 'but', are also used to express correction:
John didn't go to Paris, but to Berlin.
The present paper tries to explain this cross-linguistic pattern and represents correction as a special case of contrast. It focuses on the Russian contrastive conjunction 'a' and argues
that its corrective uses in combination with negation 'ne ... a' / 'a ne', which are traditionally viewed as a fixed collocation, are in fact co-occurrences of a general contrastive 'a' with constituent negation. |
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