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
Entities
People
- Henrik Birnbaum
Organizations
- RAND Corporation