| Titre | Constructions possessives et focalisation en ukrainien contemporain | |
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| Auteur | Oleg Chinkarouk | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 79, no 1-2, 2008 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Communications de la délégation française au XIVe Congrès international des slavistes. Ohrid, 10-16 septembre 2008 Articles |
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| Page | 191-208 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Possessive Constructions and Focalization in Contemporary Ukrainian
This article is devoted to the study of the use of two possessive constructions in contemporary Ukrainian, one involving the verb 'have' and the other the verb 'be'. In the 'have'-construction, the first argument of the predicative relation is the term representing the possessor. In the 'be'-construction, it is the term which represents the possessee. The choice of the possessive construction is directly related to the focalization of one of the two semantic participants of the possessive relation: in the 'have'-construction, the focused participant is the possessor, and, in the 'be'-construction, the possessee. The focused participant plays the part of the foreground compared to the other protagonist. The possessor is focused when, through its relation with the possessee, it is presented from different points of view: behavior, insistence on its agentif statute, description, material situation, characteristic or opposition to another possessor. The possessee is focused when it is presented as a central element which can make the situation change or can make possible to understand what is going on or when it is determined quantitatively or when one wants to draw the attention to it.
Thus, in spite of the way this problem is usually presented, it appears clearly that, in contemporary Ukrainian, the possessive constructions with 'have' and 'be' cannot be regarded as synonymous. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2008_num_79_1_7134 |
