STUDIES ON PREDICATION IN RUSSIAN, II. ON THE PREDICATIVE USE OF THE RUSSIAN INFINITIVE,

Abstract

The second part of a study on the complex function of predication and its formal expression in Contemporary Standard Russian (CSR). This Memorandum discusses the predicative use of the Russian infinitive against the background of its entire range of functions (the 'semantic spectrum'). The author surveys the predicative and semi-predicative use of the Russian infinitive; studies its peculiarities by applying certain transformational procedures; and discusses how it expresses predicative categories of time, modality, person, aspect, mode of action. Some suggestions for automatically translating Russian predicative infinitives are included. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0626207

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People

  • Henrik Birnbaum

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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  • Diffraction
  • Spectra
  • Standards

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