Discourse Clitics in the Texts of 12th–16th Century Russian Chronicles

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Pages: 9-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/CNOB1150

Abstract:

The present research is aiming at the investigation of the distributional, syntactic and paradimatic features of Old Russian (OR) discourse clitics. Clitics constitute a special class in OR, as despite the relative free word order, their position is fixed in the clause. From the three types of OR enclitics (discourse, pronominal and auxiliary) the least attention has been paid to discourse clitics. An investigation of their frequency, distributional properties and role in the information structure of OR clauses by corpus linguistic methods could provide new perspectives for the research of OR word order as well.

Keywords:

enclitics; discourse clitics; Old Russian; chronicles; corpus linguistics

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