Constraints for the Russian Middles: A Comparative Approach to English and Russian

• 발행기관: 한국슬라브어학회
• 저자명: Kim, Hyoungsup
• 간행물 정보: 『슬라브어 연구』제17권 제2호, 171~194쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.08.30

영문 초록

This study investigates the syntactic structures and the semantic interpretations of the Russian middle constructions by comparing them with the English middle constructions. Some conditions and constraints for middle formations are differently applied to English and Russian as a different set of parameters. From a perspective of typology, the Russian middle structures seem to belong to type II, the languages of which are independently marked by morphological middle morphemes, such as French and Greek. Yet the Russian middle constructions have the similitude with the English middle constructions that belong to type I, so-called adverbial middles. Adverbial middles have the syntactic structure of [S VMIDDLE+СЯ *(ADV) (*NPINSTR)], which is the same as the Russian middle constructions. The Russian middle constructions are formed by the reflexive postfix –ся, which is homophonous to the passive reflexive morpheme –ся. The Russian middles are less sensitive to the constraints for middle formations than the English middles. The middles denote the property of the subjectTHEME and the generic interpretation. The middles are property-oriented and non-episodic, but not event-oriented and episodic. Non-generic middles are produced in different tense and aspect, yet generic middles - in the present tense.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Theoretical Background: Transitivity, Voice, and Diathesis

III. Middle Constructions in Russian

IV. Conclusion

키워드

태 중간문 능동 수동 타동성 피사역동사 사역동사 준능동 능동자 논항구조 재귀사 일반성 속성 Voice Middle construction Active Passive Transitivity Anticausative Causative Demiactive Agentivity Argument structure Reflexive Genericity Property