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dc.contributor.authorJanda, Laura Alexis
dc.contributor.authorReynolds, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-27T07:42:13Z
dc.date.available2020-04-27T07:42:13Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-10
dc.description.abstractThe relationship between construal and redundancy has not been previously explored empirically. Russian aspect allows speakers to construe situations as either Perfective or Imperfective, but it is not clear to what extent aspect is determined by context and therefore redundant. We investigate the relationship between redundancy and open construal by surveying 501 native Russian speakers who rated the acceptability of both Perfective and Imperfective verb forms in complete extensive authentic contexts. We find that aspect is largely redundant in 81% of uses, and in 17% of contexts aspect is relatively open to construal. We contend that anchoring in redundant contexts likely facilitates the independence of construal in contexts with less redundancy. However further research is needed to discover what makes contexts redundant since known cues for aspect are absent in the majority of such contexts. Native speakers are fairly consistent in giving the original aspect high ratings, but less consistent in rating the non-original aspect, indicating potential problems in testing the reactions of speakers to non-authentic data.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJanda LA, Reynolds R. Construal vs. Redundancy: Russian Aspect in Context. Cognitive Linguistics. 2019;30(3):467-497en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1712205
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/cog-2017-0084
dc.identifier.issn0936-5907
dc.identifier.issn1613-3641
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/18128
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherDe Gruyteren_US
dc.relation.journalCognitive Linguistics
dc.relation.projectIDUiT Norges arktiske universitet: CLEAR group fundingen_US
dc.relation.projectIDUiT Norges arktiske universitet: CLEAR GROUP FUNDINGen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2019 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.titleConstrual vs. redundancy: Russian aspect in contexten_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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