| Titre | Du syntagme au texte : à propos d'une variation de l'ordre des mots dans le syntagme nominal en russe moderne | |
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| Auteur | Christine Bonnot | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 80, no 1-2, 2009 La cohérence du discours dans les langues slaves | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | La cohérence du discours dans les langues slaves. Linguistique théorique et textuelle Articles 2. Marquages non segmentaux de la cohérence : ordre des mots, rythme |
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| Page | 161-173 | |
| Résumé anglais |
From Phrase to Text : About a ‘Minor' Word Order Variation Within the Noun Phrase in Modern Russian
In Modem Russian word order is highly flexible at all levels of the syntactic hierarchy. However, linguistic research has mostly concentrated on those variations that reorder the main constituents of the utterance dependently of the topic-comment contrast. Variations within phrases are often supposed to be purely stylistic. This paper deals with one of these 'minor' variations: the placing of the attributive possessive after the noun, whereas it normally stands before it. We aim to show that such an inversion is far from random and plays a major part in text cohesion. It marks both situational and notional determination of the referent, and when the noun phrase stands at the beginning of the sentence, the effects of such double determination extend to the whole predication. Thus, in narrative texts, the postpositive possessive commonly indicates a break in chronological progression, it may condition the aspectual value of the verb, emphasize the expectedness of the denoted event, or else qualify the relationship between two predications (marking causality or dependence within a complex sentence). In an language like French, where such double determination of the nominal referent is made impossible by the existence of articles, the same meanings will be carried on by the form of the verbal predicate or by discursive connectors. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2009_num_80_1_7189 |
